To transform Urgent Problems into Structural Solutions

Functionalist root cause management catalyzes the development of solutions for adaptive business processes and is based on the knowledge of their concepts and fundamentals that define the root causes of their functionality.

The functionalist approach is the generic catalyst that emulates the intelligence and evolution of nature using unicist artificial intelligence and allows managing the unified field of business functions and processes.

The unicist root cause management system introduces the management of concepts and fundamentals that work as a catalyst to improve business processes that allows increasing the productivity and quality of adaptive business processes.

The Unicist Root Cause Finding Method

The unicist root cause finding method is an upgrade in the management of causality and problem solving that integrates a unicist ontological approach, which allows managing the root-causes of problems in complex adaptive environments.

Complex problems have, among other characteristics, open boundaries and have no variables with cause-effect relationships, but instead they have interdependent elements with bi-univocal relations integrated by the conjunction “AND”.

Real Case Solutions

The program works as a teaching hospital in business. Therefore, it is based on a real case solution that generates value in a company. The benefits produced by the solution that is developed need to exceed the investment in the educational activity.

The Program

The programs of the functionalist education are problem driven and not thematic driven.

The root cause management program is based on the categorization of causes, the finding of causes and the development of solutions.

The unicist management of causality is based on the functionalist principles of  adaptive systems that describe their nature and define the concepts that regulate their evolution.

A problem exists when a functionality, that has been defined as possible to be achieved, cannot be fulfilled. The unicist approach to problem solving defines three types of causes that are integrated in the concept of problem causality.

• Triggering causes: that define the operational causes that generate a problem.
• Necessary causes: that define the root causes of the problem.
• The limit causes: that define the boundaries of what is possible to be achieved.

Unicist Systemic Business Problem Solving Methodology

The Unicist Systemic Methodology is focused on the evaluation of facts independently from the explanations that are given on their causes.

As this methodology considers reality as a systemic problem, its concept is to find the cause-effect relationship of its variables. The objective of the analysis is to find the causes that generate the problem.

That is why the verbal information that is been collected is considered as an input for the analysis. The verbal information has a double functionality:

1. It describes the existing beliefs on reality, being their valid or fallacious.
2. It is a fact in itself, because of its relationship with the functional facts.

The USM begins by describing the facts or results that are being evaluated. To do so, it divides the unified field that is being scrutinized into the different facts that integrate it.

The Solution Building Process

The 4th Industrial Revolution introduced business adaptability and customer orientation as core values for business organization. In this context, unicist strategy is a value adding strategy that emulates the intelligence of nature and allows managing businesses as adaptive systems.

In fact, businesses of any kind have been and will always be adaptive entities. As any natural or artificial adaptive entity, they are driven by the adaptive functionality of their processes. This adaptability is driven by:

1. Binary actions
2. Business objects
3. The use of catalysts
4. Pilot testing

1) Unicist Binary Actions

The functionality of adaptive systems and businesses is based on the development of binary actions that are synchronized actions that avoid reactions from the environment by matching the concepts that underlie the system. The propulsion and the lift of an airplane are an example of how binary actions work. Binary actions are part of the nature of any adaptive system. 

2) Unicist Business Objects

Adaptive systems, including businesses, are driven by objects, which are encapsulated adaptive systems to generate results. Objects Include synchronized binary actions to work. The organs of the human body are an example of objects. The organization by objects is what makes businesses adaptive. Therefore, businesses have no variables because their functions are interdependent.

The use of variables to manage businesses is a palliative. Variables only exist in non-adaptive systems. The adaptability of non-adaptive businesses is personal efficacy dependent.

3) Unicist Business Catalysts

Adaptive systems, including businesses, are sustained by catalysts. Among the most well-known catalysts in biology are the enzymes that catalyze multiple processes to ensure the survival and evolution of living beings.

Catalysts expand the possibilities of the functionality of an adaptive system, while they accelerate processes by increasing the efficiency of their processes. The lack of catalysts or their insufficiency, kills businesses in the short or long-term. 

4) Pilot Testing

Pilot testing provides the information of the validity of the solutions and the results that can be expected when using the solutions.

Some of the companies that use business objects and catalysts are: Airbus, Amazon, Apple, BBC, Boeing, Dassault Systemes, Dupont, Ericsson, Facebook, General Electric, Google, Hilton, Honda, Hyundai, LinkedIn, Lufthansa, Mapfre, Mayo Clinic, Michelin, Novartis, Open Text, P&G, Pfizer, SAP, Siemens, Tata Motors, Toyota, Unilever, Walmart, Walt Disney World and YouTube.

Leadership of the Program

The initial programs are led by Professors of the Unicist Corporate University, but the program also includes the possibility of transferring the technology to be managed by executives of the companies.

Collaboration Space

All the participants of the functionalist educational programs are invited to participate in the recently opened Collaboration Space where they can share experiences with others.
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