4th Industrial Revolution

Management & Organization in the 4th Industrial Revolution

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Enterprise 4.0 was the name given to the unicist business model for the 4th Industrial Revolution. It is driven by the need of developing adaptive organizations that requires a new management approach to transform businesses into adaptive entities increasing their growth capacity, profitability, adaptability and customer orientation. It requires the management of fundamentals to organize business processes.

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The Unicist Research Institute was a precursor in introducing adaptiveness and client/customer orientation in business processes. That is why this model has a long history although its name was given recently in order to facilitate its expansion in the business world to foster growth, profitability and sustainability.

This model is an upgrade in business management that allows emulating the organization of nature and developing an integration of the different levels of technologies that coexist in any organization.

The purpose of the business model is to ensure an adaptive organization that is customer oriented and achieves a superior level of productivity and quality that increases the value generated and fosters market expansion.

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NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute (TURI) is a world leader in its segment. Since 1976, it has been specialized in complexity sciences applied to the research on the roots of evolution and its application to social, institutional, business and individual evolution.

Unicist Strategy based on Binary Actions: an Emulation of Nature

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The 4th Industrial Revolution introduced a paradigm shift that allows empowering business adaptability and customer orientation that is an upgrade towards a superior level of value generation strategy. The 4IR is the revolution of functionality, which is based on the concepts that underlie business functions and the use of binary actions.

The discovery of the triadic ontogenetic intelligence of nature that regulates the evolution of living beings, made by Peter Belohlavek at The Unicist Research Institute, allowed understanding the structure of evolution, which is driven by binary actions, which are two synchronized actions that have been defined as maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to ensure survival. This functionality also applies to artificial adaptive systems.

The functionality of adaptive systems is driven by binary actions, which include objects and catalysts. Therefore, the development of strategies in adaptive environments requires building synchronized binary actions to influence each adaptive function of an environment.

The strategy building process requires defining the ontogenetic maps that describe the fundamentals of the functions involved, defining what is possible to be achieved, designing the maximal and minimum strategies, and developing the synchronized unicist binary actions (UBAs) to ensure the generation of results.

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NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute (TURI) is a world leader in its segment. Since 1976, it has been specialized in complexity sciences applied to the research on the roots of evolution and its application to social, institutional, business and individual evolution.

The Functionalist Approach in the 4th Industrial Revolution

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The 4th industrial revolution introduced market orientation in industry, by fostering adaptability and customer orientation. This new stage required a functionalist approach that allows developing intelligent systems and adaptive automation. This is a cultural change that is being introduced in the market.

The culture of an organization is implicit in its vision and mission and is materialized by its methods. In this sense, the functionalist approach that is necessary to manage the 4th Industrial Revolution requires having a functionalist culture that includes the methods that are necessary to generate value in adaptive environments, driving the adaptability and customer orientation of businesses.

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This approach goes beyond the operationality of processes and enters the concepts and fundamentals of business functions to define processes that enable their adaptability to the market, their customer focus, and their competitive capacity.

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The functionalist approach is based on two basic elements:

  1. Functional design, that includes binary actions, objects, and catalysts.
  2. Destructive testing, that includes pilot testing, destructive testing, and non-destructive testing.
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The purpose of any culture lies in its accepted habits, evolves based on the underlying ethics and is sustained by the customs that sustain the implicit weaknesses of the habits.  The purpose of the functionalist culture is the generation of value, which needs to become a habit and begins by installing self-criticism as an ethics that sustains the systematic use of pilot tests, destructive tests, and non-destructive tests.

The New Stage

The functionalist approach is necessary to deal with the technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution while the operational approach suffices in non-adaptive environments. The functionalist approach increases notoriously the effectiveness and adaptability of processes.

It requires installing functional designers in organizations to sustain the building of adaptive processes, systems, and applications. The functional designers allow designing and implementing the binary actions that foster growth and profitability by managing adaptive processes and their automation.

The leaders of organizations need to be committed with the use of a functionalist approach to define the operational adaptive processes of an organization. To be meaningful and successful, the functionalist approach must have a superior level of value generation with lower costs. If not, it is not functional.

Diego Belohlavek

Unicist Functional Designers

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The unicist functional designers are unicist ontological tools that were developed to manage adaptive systems and environments that have open boundaries. The management of adaptive environments requires defining their functional processes and actions and monitoring their evolution.

The functional designer is based on the emulation of the nature of adaptive entities that is defined by the ontogenetic map of their fundamentals. It defines the unicist ontological structure of the functionality of adaptive entities whatever their kind.

The designers are based on the use of the unicist logic, that emulates the intelligence of nature, and of the unicist ontology that defines the functionality of adaptive entities.

The input to the designer is the conceptual structure of the functionality of an adaptive entity and the output is the definition of the functional design, the definition of the binary actions and their synchronicity and the design of the business objects that need to be included in the synchronized actions.

Diego Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute (TURI) is a world leader in its segment. Since 1976, it has been specialized in complexity sciences applied to the research on the roots of evolution and its application to social, institutional, business and individual evolution.

The Concept of the 4th Industrial Revolution

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The birth of an industrial revolution is triggered by new technologies which produce a new industrial stage when they are able to satisfy latent needs of a society. The history of industrial revolutions is that they expand as such in environments where they satisfy the needs of an “establishment” of a culture.

As soon as they begin to have a viral expansion, the industrial revolutions demonstrate their true value and the underlying concepts can be perceived.

In the case of the 4th Industrial Revolution it becomes evident that its purpose is to introduce adaptiveness into industrial and business processes.

It has to be considered that adaptiveness, the concept that underlies flexibility, was always a goal in industry but could not be solved without increasing costs and affecting the quality of the produces. Industry 4.0, due to the now available technologies, introduced adaptiveness but also increased the productivity and quality of the produces.

This opened a new stage that was based on industrial processes, although it deals with businesses as a whole. It introduces adaptiveness by managing the concepts and fundamentals of business functions.  This allows managing the root causes of processes that increase their productivity, quality and ensure their reliability.

Diego Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute has been, since 1976, the pioneer in complexity science research to deal with adaptive entities and became a private global decentralized leading research organization in the field of adaptive systems and environments. It was one of the precursors of the Industry 4.0 concept. https://www.unicist.org/turi.pdf