ProCESS | Project presentation
Channel: UCLy - Lyon Catholic University
Date: 2023-11-16

Processing Complexity with Emotional, Sensorial and Spiritual capacities is an Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances project that started in January 2021. The project includes 9 partners from 4 European countries. Lyon Catholic University is coordinating this EU project, led by Christophe PONS. 

Traditional management research considers organizations as machine-like mechanisms that can be controlled by orderly, rational decision-taking. However practical this kind of view may be in production-oriented organizational settings, it seems to be ill suited in many knowledge-intensive business contexts. ProCESS project aims at developing a methodology that helps companies move away from traditional, rational decision-taking efficiencies towards learning organizations that solve problems through interconnected, self-organizing processes utilizing sensory, emotional, and spiritual skills of its actors alongside rational analysis.

The main objectives of the project are:

- Develop an original and innovative methodology [ProCESS methodology] to deal with complex management cases through alternating sequences of mobilization of Sensory, Emotional, and Spiritual (SES) intelligences, in addition to rational capacities.

- Test the proposed methodology on real business cases in collaboration with partner companies, with students under the supervision of both academics and practicing managers.

- Train new types of trainers [SESS trainers] in SES Skills and develop a new niche of activity for them.

- Transpose the developed methodology into existing bachelor and master’s degree programs as well as lifelong/vocational training programs.

https://processproject.eu/