It refers to the flow of knowledge passively captured from the environment. It includes social interactions, information radiators, and the recognition of behaviors and facial expressions. ESV focuses on educating people about where information comes from so, they can create more effective plans, processes, or frameworks. Enterprise Social Visibility suggests five areas of action (Public Information radiators, Visible social interactions, Recognition of visible facial expressions, and Visualization of actions and movements for recognition and prediction).

It is part of the Enterprise Social Systems theory and framework, and it was published initially in LeadingExponential Change in 2018.

Learn more about ESV on Leading Exponential Change, Chapter 8. Read it for free here or in Spanish here.