What has convinced me about CAPE+coop from the very beginning is the intellectual seriousness. The roots in integral theory – from Hegel through Aurobindo, Jung, Piaget and Gebser to Wilber and Habermas – are not a marketing promise, but a genuine epistemic stance. You can feel that in the collaboration.
I was particularly impressed by the congruence between form and content. The organisational principle according to S3, the legal form as a registered cooperative – these are not coincidences. CAPE+coop embodies democratic ownership instead of capitalist logic of exploitation. They are not just consultants for organisations – they are themselves an ongoing experiment. This creates a credibility that cannot be bought.
What particularly appealed to me in our collaboration: CAPE knows how to build bridges. Lean/Six Sigma and FMEA facilitation alongside New Work and cultural change – this sounds unusual at first glance. But therein lies the strength: tools from the performance and growth-oriented world are not replaced, but embedded in an integral context. This has helped us to be picked up where we stood.
And what I particularly appreciate: It is not about a normative end state, not about the grand promise of a perfect organisation. The focus is always on the pragmatically improvable current state. From my perspective, this is exactly what we needed.