SOSPIRO and the New Renaissance
“The New Renaissance has created a huge opportunity for business to grasp advantage from the flow of fast communications, social connectivities and commercial
uncertainties of the Age of Ambiguity”
David Heslop CEO Mazda/Expotel
The Context for SOSPIRO and the New Renaissance
The huge drivers of population growth, resource management, Web 2.0/3.0, the currency of ideas, climate change legislation and commercial uncertainties have put business into a new context.
Success now and in the future is already judged by different parameters - by companies and stakeholders alike. Profitability and commercial success are linked on a new, ‘triple bottom line’ along with long-term strategy and corporate social responsibility.
SOSPIRO speeds up the journey between where you and your company are NOW and where you would LIKE TO BE in the new business context.
“All our knowledge has its
origins in our perceptions.
In rivers, the water that you
touch is the last of what has
passed and the first of that
which comes; so with present
times”
Leonardo Da Vinci
1452-1519
A brief history of everything...The 5000 Year ViewThe 1000 Year ViewThe Now and Tomorrow View
SOSPIRO - A brief History of Everything...
The Ancient World
| 500 BC Greek Quadrivium Education in mathematics, music, geometry and astronomy |
350 BC Aristotle Ethics The binding of ethics into actions. Goal-directed ethics and justice |
120 AD Roman-Latin Thought Mistranslations of greek concepts and the rootlessness of western thought |
Keynote Plato ‘The Republic’ The ideal society and theory of forms |
The Renaissance
| 1500 AD Renaissance Men Copernicus, Gallileo, the Medicis. The rise of humanism |
1550 AD Self-Awareness Transformational view of art in ‘The Lives of Artists’ by Giorgio Vasari |
1600 AD Power |
Keynote Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian Man The orders of architecture, and the human figure |
The Enlightenment
| 1700 AD The Age of Reason Systematic thinking applied to all areas of human activity |
1750 AD Progress Rationality overturns ‘combined intelligence’ with rigour and reductionism |
1790 AD |
Keynote Adam Smith ‘The Wealth of Nations’ The first treatise on economics |
Industrial Society
| 1800 AD The First Industrial Revolution Technological innovation and the steam engine |
1850 AD The Second Industrial Revolution Textiles, metallurgy, mining, railways and canals |
1900 AD |
Keynote Abraham Rees ‘Cyclopedia’ The science and technology of the Industrial Revolution |
Knowledge Society
| 1980 AD Knowledge Revolution Global paradigm shift to use of knowledge |
2000 AD The Overthrow of Matter Exchange of concepts, business reshaped and the dispersion of power |
2004 AD |
2009 AD - The New Renaissance Establishment of new agendas and ways of working to embrace global changes |