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The Integral Management Society
Understanding complexity. Creating, preserving and transmitting capabilities.
An institution for encounter
The Integral Management Society is a Swiss non-profit association based in Geneva. It creates the conditions for encounter, observation, research and cooperation that enable people, communities and organisations to respond to situations beyond conventional frameworks.
Its scientific vocation is linked to a specific responsibility: preserving the knowledge, practices and relationships that make adaptation possible. Research and living heritage are part of the same work.
A living heritage
The history recorded in the statutes traces continuity of activity at La Bola de Oro from 1898. The Swiss association was constituted in 2024 to provide continuity and an institutional framework for the heritage, archives and capabilities entrusted to it.
Craft and precision
Jewellery, goldsmithing, optics, watchmaking and repair: knowledge transmitted through relationships between masters and apprentices.
Territory and nature
Botanical memory, vanilla and practices rooted in the ecological and cultural conditions of the Totonacapan.
Communities and networks
Meeting places, workshops and relationships of trust connecting territories, generations and disciplines.
Contemporary research and practice
The contemporary re-foundation, initiated in 2005 through Formación Integral, incorporated capabilities in distributed systems and information from Nokia's research and development environment in Barcelona. The name The Integral Management Society was adopted in 2014.
Today, complex systems science, engineering, sociotechnical transformation and capability preservation are connected through research, documentation, experimentation and fieldwork.
Three ways into the Society
Communities
Encounter, learning and participation in communities of practice.
Publications and archive
Institutional documents, research and historical memory.
Governance
Statutes, governing bodies, principles and responsibilities.
An ecosystem of capabilities
Instituto del Totonacapan, Tegrity.AI, LatinoEmpresa and Formación Integral develop different expressions of cultural, scientific, editorial and educational work. The directory explains their roles and leads to their specialist sources.
Depth and continuity
The Society works primarily through small communities, teams, field missions and embedded roles. Its reach comes from the depth of its commitment, the complexity of the systems involved and the continuity of capabilities, rather than its size.
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Identity · History · Purpose
The Society
A home in Geneva for the continuity of knowledge, communities and living capabilities.
Our mission
The Society's mission is to understand complexity and facilitate the adaptation of the people, communities, organisations and systems facing it. It is independent, non-partisan and non-confessional.
Its three fundamental objectives are to develop new capabilities, preserve essential capabilities and document the provenance of knowledge and practices to ensure fair attribution and help restore value to their communities of origin.
- Develop
- New capabilities
- Preserve
- Essential capabilities
- Document
- Provenance, attribution and return of value
Understand complexity and facilitate adaptation.
The meaning of our name
Integral
Bringing together diverse actors and knowledge with respect, responsibility, integrity and attention to the long term.
Management
Building frameworks for action and trust suited to each context, through sensitivity, diplomacy and clear responsibilities.
Society
Serving the communities of practice and traditions of exploration from which the institution emerged.
History and continuity
The continuity described concerns earlier activities, archives, heritage and capabilities. It does not imply that the Swiss association existed as a legal person before 2024.
- 1898
La Bola de Oro brings together jewellery, watchmaking, optics and other crafts in Papantla, within a history of workshops, hospitality and the circulation of knowledge associated with Posada Humboldt.
- 2005
The contemporary re-foundation, under Formación Integral, connects this heritage of practice with capabilities in education, information systems and distributed mobility.
- 2014
The name The Integral Management Society is adopted and the Nueva Perspectiva manifesto is formulated, developed internationally as Perspective Beyond.
- 2024
The Swiss association is constituted in Geneva.
- 2026
The General Assembly ratifies the consolidated text of the statutes on 3 August.
Founding capabilities
The statutes identify master–apprentice transmission of tacit knowledge; the articulation of communities of practice; long-distance networks; active capability preservation; and research and innovation when ordinary resources and frameworks are insufficient.
Jewellery, watchmaking and precision repair reveal a shared requirement: maintaining the knowledge, quality criteria, access to tools and relationships that enable a practice to remain alive.
Nueva Perspectiva / Perspective Beyond
The founding manifesto of the contemporary re-foundation proposes that a situation may remain insoluble as long as the framework that produced it remains unchanged. Adopting a new perspective allows the existing elements to be related differently, revealing previously unseen capabilities and possibilities for action.
This orientation informs the Society's research and practice. The statutes define its institutional scope.
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Encounter · Transmission · Participation
Communities and circles
Continuity of knowledge is built among people who practise, learn and assume shared responsibilities.
Communities of practice
A community of practice brings together knowledge, experience, quality criteria and relationships of trust. It can be small while sustaining a capability that is difficult to replace.
The Society creates conditions for encounters among masters, apprentices, researchers, professionals, families and institutions. It respects each community's identity and the provenance of its knowledge.
A federated organisation
Circles distribute responsibilities within a single Swiss association. They may have their own name and identity; internal circles do not thereby constitute independent legal persons.
The Circle of the Society brings together its civic members and comprises the General Assembly and the Council. The statutes identify integralmanagement.ch as one of its public representations.
An additional circle requires a Council decision and a constituent charter defining its purpose, responsibilities, participation and applicable rules. A project or working group may exist within a circle without becoming an independent circle.
Ways to contribute
Research and document
Contribute observations, sources, methods and research, with clear provenance and attribution.
Transmit and learn
Share practices and knowledge, sustain learning relationships and contribute to their continuity.
Cooperate
Bring complementary capabilities together around a mission or a specific problem.
Participation and responsibilities
Participation is organised according to the scope of each circle or initiative. Admission as a civic member follows an accepted invitation or an express application approved by the competent council.
Membership of one circle does not automatically confer voting rights in others. Responsibilities, mandates and representation are established in accordance with the statutes and applicable instruments.
Find an initiative
The ecosystem directory provides access to cultural, educational, scientific and editorial work. It distinguishes initiatives and external entities from the Society's statutory organisation.
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Science · Practice · Capabilities
Work and knowledge
Research, experimentation, transformation and preservation form part of one learning cycle.
Complex systems science
The research addresses systems that change, interact and adapt. Formal logic, operational integrity and the recognition of changes in a system's conditions form part of the work developed across the ecosystem.
Tegrity.AI brings together the artificial intelligence integrity line and its research contributions. Its materials retain their authorship, version and status in the corresponding sources.
Engineering and field experience
The contemporary trajectory includes information systems, distributed technologies and operational coordination in highly complex environments. Among other precedents, the statutes record GEPLAN between 2006 and 2011, the design of a change management system for the new Mexico City airport project and an orchestration architecture in the Riviera Maya from 2016.
Technical cases are presented on their specialist sites, with attribution to each project and entity.
Sociotechnical transformation
Transformation changes relationships, responsibilities and capabilities as well as processes or technology. The practice seeks to understand this interaction and enable adaptation without losing what sustains operations.
JUBAP — Jump Up Business Action Plan — and Perspective Beyond are among the frameworks developed along this trajectory. Commercial activities are organised through the corresponding entities and agreements.
Capability preservation
Preserving a practice requires more than conserving its objects. It requires sustaining tacit knowledge, tools, learning relationships, supply networks and the conditions for continuity.
The cultural and territorial work of Instituto del Totonacapan connects documentation, crafts, communities and living heritage. Jewellery, watchmaking and knowledge associated with vanilla reveal the relationship between technical precision, transmission and territory.
Learning, media and community
The trajectory of Formación Integral connects education and access to knowledge. LatinoEmpresa develops communication, entrepreneurship and encounters between communities.
Dissemination accompanies research and practice: it documents their provenance, helps explain their results and opens paths to participation.
From practice to shared knowledge
Research informs practice; fieldwork reveals new questions; transformation makes visible capabilities that need to be preserved. Documents and publications allow this progression to be followed.
Research
Guides practice.
Fieldwork
Reveals new questions and capabilities.
Shared knowledge
Documents and transmits.
Practice raises new questions for research.
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Sources · Versions · Memory
Publications and archive
Documented access to institutional identity, research and the heritage preserved by the Society.
Institutional documents
The statutes describe the Society's mission, history, federated organisation and governing bodies. The consolidated text was ratified by the General Assembly on 3 August 2026; the French version is authoritative under Article 51.
The governance page provides access to the documents and explains their structure.
Research and contributions
The ecosystem's technical publications and contributions can be consulted in their specialist sources. These maintain the context, versions and status of each work.
A research publication, a technical proposal and a contribution submitted to an organisation are distinct categories. References to each work should preserve that distinction.
Historical archive
The documentary heritage associated with La Bola de Oro and Posada Humboldt includes activity records, correspondence, images and accounts of practices. Reading these materials helps reconstruct relationships among crafts, territories and exchange networks.
The 1904 advertisement and the 1913 card selected for this site are items from the La Bola de Oro archive. Reproductions are presented in full, preserving each document's dates and context.
Culture, transmission and editorial work
Instituto del Totonacapan
Territory, culture, crafts, communities and the documentation of living heritage.
LatinoEmpresa
Communication, entrepreneurship and encounters between communities.
Tegrity.AI
Research and contributions on artificial intelligence integrity.
Consultation, attribution and use
Sources retain their authorship and conditions of use. Custody of an archive does not confer general ownership of a community's practices or knowledge.
To consult an item or propose a reproduction, please identify the document, purpose and context of use. The Society will direct the enquiry to the appropriate responsible party.
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Statutes · Responsibility · Integrity
Governance and transparency
A federated organisation with shared rules and identifiable responsibilities.
Institutional identity
The Integral Management Society is a Swiss non-profit association based in Geneva, constituted in 2024 and governed by its statutes and Articles 60 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code.
integralmanagement.ch is a public representation of the Circle of the Society. IMSV.org is an equivalent public designation of The Integral Management Society and an institutional interface provided for in its statutes.
Statutes
The revision conceived on 2 July 2025 was consolidated and ratified by the General Assembly on 3 August 2026. The French version is legally authoritative unless expressly decided otherwise.
The statutes cover founding provisions; means of action; organisation in circles; participation; integrity principles; resources and heritage; governing bodies; and rules of interpretation.
The document below is the public extract: founding provisions and mission, Articles 1–9, with visual annexes.
Governing bodies and responsibilities
The audit body intervenes when required by law, the statutes or a decision of the Assembly. The distribution of functions does not divide the association's legal personality.
| Body | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| General Assembly | Adopts and amends the statutes, elects the Council and approves the annual report, accounts, roadmap and general budget as provided for in the statutes. |
| Council of the Society | Constitutes the association's committee. It distributes the functions of direction or presidency, secretariat and financial responsibility. |
| Circles | Pursue their purpose within the Society, with responsibilities and autonomy defined by the statutes, their charter and applicable mandates. |
Common principles
The common constitutional core includes legality, human dignity, equal treatment, non-discrimination, freedom of conscience and research, democratic and non-arbitrary governance, transparency and the right to be informed and heard.
It also includes good faith, accuracy of institutional representation and evidence, disclosure of conflicts of interest, protection of assets, data and rights, and respect for the autonomy of circles.
Heritage, provenance and rights
The Society documents the contributions, heritage and capabilities it receives or administers, together with their provenance, ownership, conditions of use and stewardship responsibility.
Preservation does not imply exclusive representation of cultures, territories or communities. Responsibilities are limited to the assets, rights and practices validly entrusted to the Society.
Information and enquiries
Enquiries about institutional documents, governance, representation or use of materials may be addressed to the Society. Relationships with independent entities in the ecosystem retain their respective responsibilities.
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Institutions · Initiatives · Connections
Ecosystem and cooperation
A guide to finding specialist work and understanding each site's role.
Find the right field of work
Initiatives and fields of work
Instituto del Totonacapan
Culture, territory, jewellery, watchmaking, crafts and the transmission of living heritage.
Tegrity.AI
Research and contributions on artificial intelligence integrity and adaptive systems.
LatinoEmpresa
Communication, entrepreneurship and community between Latin America and Europe.
Formación Integral
The educational initiative launched in 2005 forms part of the contemporary trajectory recorded in the statutes. It connects education, information technologies and access to learning in contexts with limited resources.
The transmission of capabilities remains a dimension that runs across the Society's work.
Engineering, transformation and integration
Specialist sites maintain attribution of their projects and identify the responsible entities. Cooperation does not merge legal personalities or imply automatic representation.
JubAp.net
Frontier Engineering. Technical experience, systems and engineering capabilities.
JubAp.eu
Intelligence & Transformation. Strategic transformation and services developed by OÜ JUBAP, an independent Estonian entity.
JubAp.us
Integration & Value Creation. A site focused on operational integration and value creation.
Frameworks and mobility
JubAp.org presents Jump Up Business Action Plan. Mobility and orchestration work, including xSeil, forms part of the engineering trajectory and the corresponding technical corpora.
International cooperation
The Society cooperates with people, communities, institutions and organisations in accordance with its mission and applicable mandates. Its international character describes the reach of its relationships and working contexts.
Contributions, participation and agreements are presented according to their documented status and with links to their sources. Applications and proposals are not equated with decisions of acceptance or endorsement.
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The Integral Management Society · Geneva
Contact
Institutional enquiries, communities, research and heritage.
Institutional correspondence
The Integral Management Society
c/o MSA
Route des Jeunes 41a
1227 Carouge GE
Suisse
UID/IDE identification: CHE-481.709.475.
Direct your enquiry
The Society and its governance
Institutional documents, representation, communities and participation: correspondence to the institutional address.
Research
For work, publications and contributions on AI integrity, consult Tegrity.AI.
Culture and heritage
For territory, crafts and cultural archives, consult Instituto del Totonacapan.
Media and cooperation
For editorial content and the entrepreneurship community, visit LatinoEmpresa. For enquiries about an initiative or specialist case, the directory provides access to the responsible site.
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