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.
Documented history
The Integral Management Society documents and preserves the memory of the practices, projects and communities that have contributed to its work. The archive follows two periods. Part I covers the contemporary history from 2005 to 2026. Part II is devoted to the historical background from 1898 to 2005.
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.
Perspective Beyond / An entrance to the thought Atlas
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