Spin Off

In late 2024, a CNR spin-off company called IMO-International Institute for Human and Organizational Development was created.
The company is based on an innovative methodology that is the result of a 17-year action research project that analyzed recurring critical issues in traditional approaches to change and identified and tested innovative elements to overcome them. The methodology, called Methodology for Horizontal Leadership and Integrated Organizations was inspired by European best practices, including in Italy the pioneering work initiated by Adriano’s Olivetti company, which was the first to bring the humanities to the factory floor, and in the Netherlands the work of psychiatrist Bernard Lievegoed, among the first European lecturers in social ecology.

The methodology has a strong transdisciplinary slant and proposes a systemic and evolutionary development of people, organizations and territories. It was published in 2020 in Italian (Verso un umanesimo della vita organizzativa: generare sviluppo nella complessità con la leadership orizzontale, E. Rizziato, Franco Angeli) and in English in an updated version in 2024 with CNR edizioni https://www.ircres.cnr.it/volume-toward-a-humanism-for-organizations-horizontal-leadership-and-consciousness/.

 

Link to the spin-off site: https://het-imo.net/it/