Throughout the Forum there was one question that occupied my mind at that time, and after still… A young Canadian speaker called Lotfi El-Ghandouri posed the question. He explained to us that you need chaos and not order to be able to be creative. He spoke about the concept of “chaordic”. And after some more explanations he asked us “How much chaos and how much order do you need to be creative?”
Later in the month I attended the Bbest Taking Responsibility for a Sustainable Future conference. You are maybe interested to learn that Bbest is the primary partner of the EFQM in Belgium and The Netherlands. It is licensed to promote and deliver the EFQM products and services in these countries.
During the Bbest conference some exiting announcements were made. Firstly the translation in Dutch of EFQM 2010 Model has been completed and is now available. A group of Flemish and Dutch EFQM Model experts volunteered to create a new translation that would meet the needs of both Flemish and Dutch organisations interested in Excellence. Bbest also announced the Benelux Excellence Award. It will be presented for the first time in October 2011. It will be given to the organisation(s) with the best performance as assessed according to the EFQM Model. Organisations that have received a 4-star or 5-star Recognition for Excellence (R4E) from Bbest in the 12 months previous are automatically eligible for the Benelux Excellence Award.
The main part of the conference was obviously made up of companies sharing their strategies and approaches on sustainability. Although many good and relevant issues and options were discussed throughout the conference, I still had the unsettling feeling that despite these great examples we will not live in a sustainable future in anytime soon. We really need to be creative and implement global solutions to our sustainability challenges and quickly too.
Maybe we should be more brave and try it in a chaordic way?
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