Resources
Vortex tools
Data sheets
To capture the information that fills the Vortex, these dedicated cards help to direct the reflections through questions and adapted formulations. Each card will receive a piece of information to be divided into one of the 4 quadrants.
On the front, you’ll find wording to help you fill in the information correctly.
On the back, you’ll find a definition of the quadrant and 3 follow-up questions.
3 versions of Vortex plugs
- For companies, for applications such as strategy, transformation and forecasting
- For teams, whether managing complex projects, unifying alignments or innovation
- For individuals, for coaching, life projects or a need for coherent action.
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The notebook
Explore the Vortex in depth
The ergonomics of this workbook have been designed so that the Vortex becomes a travel companion as you explore your intention. It’s the essential tool for facilitators and coaches to take their group through a Vortex, even over several days.
The quality of the object illustrates the care given to accompanying customers or collaborators. The brief Vortex instructions at the end of the booklet are an invitation to meet up regularly to feed the Vortex. The hundred or so pages of notes, illustrated with precepts around liquid thinking, encourage you to enter deeply into the thinking process. Quadrant labels to cut out enable each person to build their own Vortex.
Books
Innovation in the age of the butterfly
Edouard Le Maréchal
We have entered a paradigm shift in thinking. This is what this essay asserts, highlighting the need to bring corporate management practices into line with the new analysis models proposed by contemporary science. At the origin of the Vortex concept, “Innovating in the Age of the Butterfly” aptly sheds light on the gap between the intentions we pursue in our companies, the objectives we set ourselves to achieve them, and the tools at our disposal to steer our actions.
Creativity at work according to humanistic psychology
Anne-Laure Saives, René Bernèche
In this collection of interviews, two teacher-researchers from Université Québec à Montréal discuss creative thinking, the creative individual and creativity training. The aim is to understand the phenomenon of creativity in the individual, by bringing together a humanistic psychological vision and the field of idea management. This is a book for all those interested in creativity, whether experts or beginners. Beyond the fascinating dialogue between the two authors, you’ll also find all the essential references on the subject of creativity, and an annotated directory of the great thinkers on creative intelligence.
Introduction to complex thinking
Edgar Morin
This 100-page work is a must-read if you want to understand how the notion of complex thinking radically changes our relationship with reality. Edgar Morin was the first to conceive of complexity not as a phenomenon or characteristic of reality, but as a way of describing it. A number of cognitive consequences flow from this, and a range of new tools, including the Vortex, can be developed to not only take a different, calmer look at the chaos that surrounds us, but also to read its dynamics. A book that is both fascinating and demanding, and well worth the tiny reading effort it requires on some pages.
Creativity at work in foresight
Anne-Laure Saives, Annie Camus
Sometimes foresight is confused with prediction or forecasting, when in fact it’s about inventing the future we want. This book, published in the form of interviews with a leading French futurist, Jean-Marie Bézard, highlights how, in order to deconstruct the obvious and open up horizons, the creative posture can be a key element in defining the “future”. This essential book will help you understand how the Vortex is a particularly relevant tool when it comes to thinking about long time.