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You face the unexpected with professionalism,
and organize yourself in such a way as to generate a culture of collective mindfulness.
You:
Organizations performing important societal functions that act at multiple levels under challenging conditions. Issues, such as safety, patient safety, safety culture, resilience, reliability, learning and leading are central.
We:
We are a consulting team dealing with complexity in organization. We are ready to support you when possibilities for innovation need to be explored, and unwanted consequences must be avoided or mitigated.
Services
Our services are worked out after the kick-off meeting and may be adapted during the change process after consultation with you.
To facilitate change, we use a versatile approach and apply a diverse range of methods.
Organizing, Teams, Leadership
Individuals
- Support in organizational development in order to reflect on High Reliability Organizations (HRO) research findings from different possible perspectives, to learn from this, and implement changes if suitable
- Facilitation of interdisciplinary teams to anticipate unexpected sources of failure with the aim of avoiding unwanted incidents
- Accompanying interdisciplinary teams to learn from critical incidents or failures
- Strengthen the capacity to professionally endure stressful situations
- Anchored leading as equal partners (related to phase and situation) in teams
- Facilitating teams in implementing concepts of risk management ONR 49003:2014 and quality management
- Strengthening awareness of errors that may never happen and establishing supporting frameworks for this
- Raising awareness of dysfunctional interactions and acting constructively
- Accompanying leaders in their role and providing feedback
- Dealing with stress and uncertainty
- Early detection of signs within yourself and others and taking responsible action
- Sensitizing increased awareness
- Building up capability to deal with rash or risky behaviour of employees and colleagues
- Advancing the understanding of one’s own thinking and acting, and initiating learning processes from this
- Sparring partnership in unexpected or challenging situations
- Providing support in handling stressful situations or operations
About us
We are trained professionals with extensive experience in diverse focus areas. For each individual request, the most competent and relevant team
is there for support.
Cooperating Partner
X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING
Phone number: +41 43 322 06 40
E-Mail: ehrli@x-challenge.ch
Cooperating Partner
X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING
Phone number: +41 62 822 05 29
E-Mail: hoech@x-challenge.ch
Owner of
X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING
Phone number: +41 44 362 30 63
Mobile: +41 79 428 91 88
E-Mail: info@x-challenge.ch
Elvira Porrini
Nicola Ehrli
Doris Höch
Network partner
X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING
Phone number: +41 71 845 35 75
Mobile: +49 700 6378 24 87
E-Mail: schoch@x-challenge.ch
Network partner
X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING
Phone number: +41 76 441 52 17
E-Mail: kipouros@x-challenge.ch
Cooperating Partner
X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING
Phone number: +49 8841 61 71 10
Mobile: +49 171 43 36 750
E-Mail: zimmermann@x-challenge.ch
Antonios Kipouros
Dr. med. Ulrich Schoch
Wolfgang Zimmermann
We cooperate with a variety of interdisciplinary experts:
International
- Apollo13 in Delft, NL in the English and German language, www.a13c.nl
- HRO Academy, NL in the English language, www.hroacademy.nl
- Fabian Brückner, DE, in the German and English language, www.fabian-brueckner.de
Switzerland
- Development of a Risk Management Concept, in the English and German language:
Prof. Dr. Jens O. Meissner, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, IBR, Zentralstrasse 9,
CH-6002 Lucerne Phone number +41 41 228 99 40 - Expert for content related to patient safety: Dr. Saskia Huckels-Baumgart, www.safetyhealthcare.org
- Development of a Risk Management Concept, in the English and German language:
Research
We base our work on research results of leading scientists and academics, as well as organizational theorists. In reflecting upon our work with clients, we collaborate with Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Dirk Baecker, University Witten/Herdecke.
Please find a bibliography here: PDF
Commitment
Our commitment serves clients for whom the agreed changes are wanted. Our consulting work enables principles of behavior that are important for dealing with complexity to be explored, while fostering a culture of collective mindfulness.
Media Library
Current articles
Umbruch in der Chefetage
Vom Heldentum zur agilen Führung.
KAMOS: A Learning Approach Practicing Resilience and Promoting Safety
Difficult and stressful work is an inherent cause for errors – decisions can have unexpected consequences or reveal themselves as dangerous.
SICHERHEITSFORUM Nr. 2 │2019: Neue Lösungsansätze für Hausarztpraxen
Sicherheit für Patienten und Mitarbeitende zu stärken, ist auch in der Hausarztpraxis zentral geworden.
SICHERHEITSFORUM Nr. 6 │2018: Organisationale Resilienz
We have taken an actual event in an emergency department of a hospital and chosen a short frequency as a window into the organization to demonstrate how organizational resilience might be improved.
Innovation Urgently Needed: Principles for Managing Inter- and Transdisciplinary Applied Management Research Projects
Patricia Wolf, Julie Harboe, Barbara Kummler from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Future Laboratory CreaLab, Switzerland and Antonios Kipouros, X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING have put a great effort into studying highly complex projects. They worked out basic principles and what additional research is needed.
Resilience as an Organizational Achievement
We have taken an actual event in an emergency department of a hospital and chosen a short frequency as a window into the organization to demonstrate how organizational resilience might be improved.
Trotz Ungewissheiten sicher Führen
Eröffnungsreferat an der kantonalen Tagung für Schulleitende im Kanton Aargau. Wie könnte Führen auf Augenhöhe gelingen? Dazu sind auch im Foliensatz einige praktische Hinweise für die Praxis zu finden.
Cost Optimization in Nuclear Power Plants
Article archiv
In the Washing-Plant
Episodic Organizational Development in a Fusion of the Office of Youth and Career Guidance in the Canton of Zurich.
Freiwillig in die Waschstrasse
Interview with Dr. Sven Staender
Interview with Dr. Sven Staender, Chief Physician of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Männedorf Hospital. Elvira Porrini highlights the issue of High Reliability Organizing in hospitals with Dr Staender.
Hospital development can only proceed with the cooperation of doctors
Hospital development can only proceed with the cooperation of doctors. Gaby Belz deals with the pressure on and within hospitals.
Keep a better check on stress
Keep a better check on stress. Ulrich Schoch and Elvira Porrini reveal how to deal with stress in everyday work life.
Entrepreneurs are crazy
In his book, Wolfgang Zimmermann shows how entrepreneurs overcome barriers, and what managers can learn from them.
Moments correctly interpreted
Elvira Porrini describes principles of behaviour that can be observed in High Reliability Organizations.
The News
Principles of organizational behaviour the public trusts
Elvira Porrini describes principles of behaviour that can be observed in High Reliability Organizations.
Too much trust in organizations
Clarity in organizing as well as in observing empty spaces
Contact
Owner and Management:
Elvira Porrini
X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING
Phone number +41 44 362 30 63
Fax No. +41 44 362 31 25
E-Mail info@x-challenge.ch
Correspondence address
Ellen-Widmann-Weg 2
CH-8050 Zürich
Consulting office
Elisabethenstrasse 43
CH-8004 Zürich
Photography: Friedel Ammann, Basel
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Registered company name: PORRINI X-CHALLENGE CONSULTING
Number: CH-020.1.055.646-3
Commercial Registry: Zurich
VAT Number:
CHE-108.502.027
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