'Novum Ventus'
"Novum Ventus" is Latin and can be translated as "new wind" or "new breeze." Metaphorically, it represents change, innovation and a fresh start, as wind often symbolizes movement or transformation in many cultures.
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Noventus helps organisations that want to tackle wicked challenges. We support through sensemaking, structuring and process management.
"One can never understand the trees without understanding the mushrooms"
A tree can only exist because of its relation with fungus. By opening up and allowing fungi to reach inside its roots, a tree is able to engage in an exchange ritual, trading sugars for nutrients.
The same goes for humans and organisations. There are countless exchanges and interactions going. But, as with the trees, these interactions, while paramount for the survival, are sometimes difficult to see and understand.
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Noventus is research, using the best available tools to provide insights. These tools offer insights on how the surrounding environment interacts with an entity like an organisation, a challenge or an institution.
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Tools like SNA (Social Network Analysis), organisational science, Resource dependency theory, ... are applied to determine the most dominant connections.
"Thinking you can outsmart your environment is, in the long run, a pretty reliable illusion..."
In the long run, it's nearly impossible to thrive in an environment that doesn't support you. That's common wisdom in plants, but not so in humans.
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For humans and organisations, the lack of a supporting environment that offers all the nutrients (i.e. resources like knowledge, people, raw materials, ...) is very limiting for growth and prosperity. At first, it's just expensive to overreach for the much needed input, in the long run it's almost always lethal.
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Noventus provides insights on the needs and the availability of resources. But there's more: Based on the understanding of the network and ecosystem surrounding organisations, an action plan and approach offers a way forward.
Team
Passion, skills, empathy
The Noventus team is flexible, sometimes it's only Koen (the founder), sometimes other skilled and driven people temporarily join the company to push for a better world.
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