About Us
The Value Web is an international non-profit association, based in Switzerland, focused on multi-sector/multi-stakeholder collaboration in transformational projects for a more sustainable, equitable world. We design and deliver collaborative engagements to support like-minded leaders and their organizations around the world.
A meme that captures the how and why of our work is "RE.CO.DE."
RE signifies recursion & iteration.
A recursive design process has the ability to employ the same principles and processes on itself that it employs on the systems it designs. An iterative design process seeks to develop the whole from the very beginning and to add levels of definition and understanding over time. All levels will engage in iterations of work, not to arrive at the perfect answer, but to learn from each other, get feedback and take the idea further. Recursion facilitates robustness and resilience in our solutions. Working iteratively allows better feedback, and holds open the space for emergence.
CO signifies collaboration.
When done well, collaboration unleashes collective intelligence and channels that intelligence into the design and decision-making processes to produce dramatically better results. Collaboration recognizes that everyone has expertise, and there are no experts in the fields of the unknown and undiscovered. The complex problems we face today call for all kinds of intelligences, voices, and vantage points.
DE signifies design.
Design is a very lively process. It is hands on both playful and thoughtful. There are no pat answers. The role of designer can be highly liberating. It can give wings to a new-found freedom to innovate and take part. Design is challenging in that often, there are no clear boundaries and either/or answers. For designers, a chance to help shape a new paradigm is the highest reward. It is a great time to be alive and able to contribute to the creating of a more equitable world.
By applying these principles and approaches to group facilitation we lay the groundwork for the emergence of meaningful dialogue and well-considered and well-tested solutions. Using the meme of re.co.de. helps us to create the right conditions for involvement, integration and innovation to occur.
The Value Web design processes are based on the systems and methods initiated by Matt and Gail Taylor and pioneered by the MG Taylor Corporation (http://www.mgtaylor.com).