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
The Now and Tomorrow View
The crossroads is now.
To adjust the balance in our ways of both perceiving ourselves, and to inform our actions in
the future, now is the time to act.
Science, as the the super-fast accelerator of knowledge, beautifully expressed in medicine for example, has contributed to the growth to a 6.5 billion current world population. Science, however has not been the qualitative controller of behaviours and results, - only the quantitative, leaving us with concerns about food, water, energy, and climate change. The even faster speed of population growth in the last 50 years has brought these issues to a head.
The contribution of Art in that same timeframe has been largely to ‘enrich through entertainment’, whereas in previous times the frameworks of great Art provided something of a moral ‘guidance’, and an inspiration towards high ideals, - a metaphorical ‘conscience’. We now have a paradigm gap between Industrial society with it’s predominantly scientific processes of certainty and progress, and the new, still-evolving knowledge, connectivity and information society, whose ambiguity cannot be accessed, controlled or leveraged by scientific methods alone.
We urgently need to address wider issues than short-term profit, and taking from the earth, and ourselves.. To do this, we urgently need a combination of scientific and artful methods and thinking. An ‘expanded consciousness’, -a ‘Co-Intelligence’.
The Paradigm Gap
The search for ‘truth’ through Science and the repercussions of applying ‘truth’ without a comprehensive and global view of human implications can be steered from rocky waters by an understanding of Art, and the search for ‘Harmony’ that is the goal of great Art.
We must open the ‘Book of the New World’.
We can apply a sustaining morality, and a human face to our actions, and ‘Co-Intelligence’ can be our guide.
Science in itself spins off into applications of discoveries that in themselves are often without moral framework. Art can help us find the guidelines for that moral framework, so that in a collaboration, Science and Art are an unbeatable team.
‘Co-Intelligence’ gives us privileged access to the NEW RENAISSANCE.
It balances the pursuit of progress with a way forward to find the essential new agenda of sustainability and creativity.
We live in the Paradigm Gap NOW. We are at a tipping point.
It is not a small matter - it is urgent and the impact is huge scale.
There has never been a more important NOW than TODAY.
What you think today informs tomorrow.
What you do today becomes tomorrow.
This is the essence of great strategy. Hope is not a Strategy.
We believe that The New Renaissance is an opportunity to find a better way to use our resources and talents, and we need to take these challenges ‘head-on’.
Sospiro builds from an individual capability to a corporate capability to cross the paradigm gap, and step into the New Renaissance with confidence. Sospiro is for those who want to influence and succeed tomorrow. Sospiro works with individuals and organisations to nurture resources and measure success beyond short term profit, and act now for sustained benefit.