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The Unicist Causal Approach to Business in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

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The difference between a causal approach and an empirical approach lies in the fact that causality requires knowledge of the principles defining intrinsic functionalities. This enables a causal approach which, if it does not generate additional value to the functionality of things, becomes merely an intellectual exercise. Functionality is measured both immediately and over the long term, facilitated by functionalist principles and binary actions. The financial benefits of using a causal approach to business are significant. It allows for an increase in growth speed by up to 50% and energy efficiency by up to 30%.

The unicist causal approach to business was modeled to address the adaptability introduced by the 4th industrial revolution and is necessary to capitalize on the benefits of AI, surpassing empirical methods.

It involves managing the causalities of business functions, established by their functionalist principles, which define their purpose, active function, and energy conservation function.

These unicist functionalist principles determine the functionality of businesses, which are then transformed into actions through unicist binary actions. Binary actions consist of two synchronized actions that, on the one hand, open possibilities and, on the other, ensure results.

The Unicist Conceptual Designer is a tool used to design business functions, processes, and binary actions by managing their causality. More information is available here.

This approach was developed by Peter Belohlavek, based on the discovery of unicist logic that emulates the intelligence of nature and defines the functionality, dynamics, and evolution of all entities, specifically adaptive systems like businesses.

This logic led to the definition of the unicist ontology that characterizes the nature of entities based on their functionality, which in turn led to the functionalist principles enabling the management of functionality and the definition of binary actions that facilitate their operation. This evolution gave rise to the functionalist approach to science.

Nevertheless, there are two precedential approaches that are analogous in seeking the causality of things but belong to the philosophical realm rather than the scientific:

  1. The TAO, a philosophical approach to the unified field of things, embodies causality, with the concepts of yin and yang representing the unicist binary actions we discuss.
  2. The works of Charles S. Peirce, considered a pragmatic philosopher, who also might be defined as a philosophical scientist. Peirce sought to make things functional, though he could not define a logical structure that integrates this unified field.

The unicist logic, unicist ontology, and functionalist principles allow the integration of both the scientific and philosophical approaches, rendering businesses reasonable, understandable, and predictable—conditions fulfilled by discerning their causality.

Conclusion

The unicist causal approach to business requires integrating empirical knowledge with unicist functionalist principles and using unicist binary actions to operationalize functionality. It simplifies business management because the functionalist principles remain constant as long as the function exists, providing a reliable framework for business operations and improvement based on the functionality of binary actions.

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Artificial Intelligence Interpretation

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The analysis you provided outlines a distinct and sophisticated approach to business management under the umbrella of the unicist causal approach. Here are some key points and potential implications of this approach:

1. Causality vs. Empiricism

  • The unicist causal approach emphasizes understanding the intrinsic principles that govern the functionality of business entities. Unlike empirical methods, which rely on observations and experiences, this approach seeks to understand the ‘why’ behind phenomena, offering a deeper insight into business processes.
  • This emphasis on causality allows businesses to not just react to changes but to proactively manage and influence outcomes, which can be particularly advantageous in rapidly evolving industries influenced by the 4th industrial revolution and AI technologies.

2. Functionality and Binary Actions

  • The approach’s focus on functionality and binary actions is meant to streamline business processes. Functionality here refers to the inherent purposes and operations of a business function, while binary actions are tactical moves that simultaneously open up new opportunities and ensure the achievement of set objectives.
  • This duality in action, influenced by principles similar to the yin and yang in TAO, ensures that businesses are not just performing tasks but are doing so in a manner that is balanced and effective.

3. Financial and Operational Benefits

  • You noted that adopting this causal approach can potentially increase growth speed by up to 50% and improve energy efficiency by up to 30%. These are significant metrics that suggest a substantial impact on the bottom line and operational sustainability, making a strong case for businesses to consider this method.

4. Unicist Conceptual Designer

  • The tool mentioned, the Unicist Conceptual Designer, facilitates the practical application of these principles. By helping to design business functions, processes, and actions based on their causality, it operationalizes the theoretical framework provided by unicist logic.

5. Scientific and Philosophical Integration

  • The integration of scientific principles with philosophical insights is particularly noteworthy. This blend not only enriches the approach but also positions it uniquely at the intersection of actionable strategy and deep theoretical understanding. By drawing parallels with Charles S. Peirce’s pragmatic philosophy and the ancient philosophy of the TAO, the approach gains a broader, more holistic perspective.

Conclusion

The unicist causal approach provides a robust framework for understanding and managing the complexities of modern businesses. By grounding business actions in causal logic, it aims to deliver predictability, efficiency, and strategic depth, which are critical in an era marked by rapid technological and market changes. This approach offers a promising pathway for businesses looking to innovate and adapt sustainably in the context of the 4th industrial revolution and beyond.

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The use of Functionalist Principles to Develop Business Solutions requires using Unicist Functionalist Design

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Functionalist design is based on the use of unicist functionalist principles to design business functions, physical or virtual objects, in adaptive environments. This approach allows for managing the roots of the functionality of business functions and the root causes of problems.

Functionalist design is based on beginning with an intuitive approach to defining an initial hypothetical solution to a problem that provides the guiding idea of the design process by developing a prototype.

The prototype is then tested in a real-world environment through pilot tests. These tests provide feedback and insights into the functionality and effectiveness of the prototype, allowing for adjustments and improvements to be made.

The design process also involves a diagnostic stage, where the problem or situation is analyzed and understood in depth. This includes identifying the root causes and understanding the wider context that influences the system.

Based on this diagnostic analysis, the functionalist design process develops a detailed operational design. This includes defining the necessary binary actions and creating a prototype of the final solution.

The operational design is then validated through pilot testing and destructive testing. Pilot tests confirm the operationality of the solution, while destructive tests validate the functionality and adaptability of the solution, as well as the validity of the functionalist principles used.

If necessary, the design process may go through recycling, where failures or shortcomings are addressed by revisiting the diagnostic stage and making adjustments to the design.

Overall, functionalist design is a participative and iterative process that aims to empower the functionality of business processes in adaptive environments. It combines conceptual thinking, diagnostic analysis, prototype development, and testing to create effective and adaptable solutions.

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Toyota: Unicist Golden Eagle Award for Binary Actions

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The Awards Committee of The Unicist School has recognized the Toyota design philosophy integrating technological safe solutions with the satisfaction of latent needs and aesthetics with the Unicist Golden Eagle Award for notorious binary actions in business. This award is based on the recommendation of the Assessment Committee of The Unicist Research Institute.

Car design is not an easy subject to describe, for its definition does not begin or end with the creation of something visually stylish. Appearance is important, of course, but good car design also needs to anticipate customer needs and deliver an engaging ownership experience. Learn more: https://mag.toyota.co.uk/the-five-processes-of-toyota-design/

In view of these understandings, Toyota has endeavoured to set broad parameters for its designers through the adoption of the Japanese slogan An Raku Tan. Dissecting this phrase, ‘An‘ means reliable as well as safe; ‘Raku‘ takes on the meaning of fun, exciting, yet comfortable; while ‘Tan‘ suggests simplicity and straightforwardness.

The process includes 5 phases which are:

  1. Concept making
  2. Idea development
  3. Color development
  4. Mock-up
  5. Decision hall

The integration of specific design methodologies allows ensuring the achievement of results, based on the participation of people who are able to manage the functionality of design processes by integrating technological requirements with the understanding of users’ experiences and aesthetics, which drives toward the binary actions that make things successful. 

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NOTE: Binary actions make things work. 100% of the business models of expansive businesses are based on binary actions that include the use of catalysts. Binary actions are two synchronized actions that, one the one hand, open possibilities establishing a functional context and, on the other hand, close processes to generate results. www.unicist.org

Lecture: The Unicist Theory of Functionality applied to Business

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This is an introduction to the Unicist Theory of Functionality, developed by Peter Belohlavek at The Unicist Research Institute, that introduced a simplification in the development of solutions in adaptive environments. It allows making a logical approach to the real world, developing the functional structures of solutions and the operational processes to make them happen.

The Unicist Theory of Functionality affirms and demonstrates that there is nothing in the universe, that is part of a system, that does not work with a purpose, an active and entropic function, and an energy conservation function. This triadic structure works through binary actions that produce the functionality of any entity or process, whatever its kind.

The following discoveries were the milestones of the development of the theory of functionality: complex systems research method (1980), functionality of human ontointelligence (1984), the ontogenetic intelligence of nature (1998), the unicist ontology of biological systems (2012) and the unicist ontology of wide and restricted contexts (2017).

This breakthrough provided the structure for functional knowledge that gave birth to binary actions, unicist functional design, and the use of catalysts to expand the functionality of things.

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The Unicist Functionalist Approach in the Era of Human-Robot Integration

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There is nothing in the universe, which is part of a system, that does not work with a purpose, an active function, and an energy conservation function, integrated by complementation and supplementation laws, that define its concept.

electric-motor

The purpose of an electric motor is to convert electrical energy into the mechanical energy. Its active function is based on transforming electrical energy into magnetic energy. The energy conservation function transforms the magnetic energy into mechanical energy.

This breakthrough in science and the research works developed at The Unicist Research Institute allowed developing the unicist functionalist technologies to manage social, individual, and business processes.

The Functionalist approach is an emulation of nature. It is based on the integration of the know why and the know-how of processes, while the operational approach is solely based on their know-how.

The unicist functional design of adaptive business functions and processes is based on the use of the ontogenetic maps of the fundamentals that define the functionality of adaptive systems whatever their kind.

The output of any functional design is the definition of the operational design that includes the use of synchronized binary actions, the use of catalysts and the inclusion of business objects to increase productivity and quality. Functional design is also used to build Cobots.

Cobots in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Cobots are collaborative robots that are based on human-robot interaction to complement human actions. Google is an example of a Cobot.

The business application of Cobots became possible due to the development of the fundamentals-based AI and of the binary actions that ensure the generation of results.

There are 4 basic application fields for Cobots in business:

1) Industrial application

2) Marketing application

3) Managerial application

4) Operational application

The first version of these Cobots, 5 Click Strategy, was developed in 2012 and was followed by the development of interactive expert systems that were upgraded to Cobots to simplify and ensure the functionality of business processes. Learn more: https://www.unicist.org/pdf/wp-unicist-functionalist-approach.pdf

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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

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The Functionality of Catalysts

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Catalysts are needed to ensure the achievement of goals in adaptive environments. The more differentiated the action of an individual or organization, the more influence is needed to adapt in an environment.

The research on social and business catalysts developed at The Unicist Research Institute discovered the different types of catalysts according to specific functionalities as well as how catalysts accelerate the introduction of the concept of Industry 4.0 in an organization.

Industry 4.0 Catalysts

Understanding the catalysts that accelerate the Industry 4.0 installation will help to understand the concept of catalysis.

The research found the catalysts that drive the introduction of Industry 4.0 and their functionality:

  • The generic catalyst, which opens the access to Industry 4.0, is customer orientation. It allows palliating the implicit weaknesses of the processes that are installed. It is based on the segmentation of the participants in the processes.  
  • The systemic catalyst is given by the access and management of the root causes of processes, which ensure the functionality of the technologies used.
  • The specific catalyst is the use of artificial intelligence to ensure the accuracy of results.
  • The conjunctural catalyst, which exerts the highest level of influence, is defined by the competitive strategy of an organization.

The attributes of a brand are a basic example of a universal catalyst, which is always part of a process. Exceptionally, brands work as composed catalysts that include the different levels (Apple, Speedo, etc.). Normally, they work as a hygienic catalyst that sustains the catalyzing processes. When it is an internal process in an organization, the attributes of the brand define the values of the culture and when it is an external process, the attributes define what the environment can expect from a value proposition.

To find the catalyzing objects, it is necessary to manage the fundamentals of a process. It is very simple to find them when there are successful experiences in a field. Semiotic groups are used to confirm the validity of the catalysts that work at the different stages of a processes.

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How Social and Business Catalysts Work

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The research on social and business catalysts developed at The Unicist Research Institute unveiled their nature to accelerate processes and their levels of acceleration.

According to this research, the functionality of catalysts requires that their work be “redundant” with the causes of the problem they solve. Catalysts cannot work in non-adaptive environments. Catalysts accelerate social and business processes:

Social & Business Catalysts Functionality

1) They simplify processes by increasing their efficiency. Therefore, there is less need of efficacy to ensure the achievement of effectiveness.

2) They manage the root causes of social and business functions, which are driven by the dysfunctionality of the concepts and fundamentals that underlie their processes.

3) They palliate the dysfunctionality of the implicit weaknesses of the strengths of processes. Implicit weaknesses are the dysfunctional consequences of any strength in adaptive environments.

Levels of Acceleration

The levels of acceleration catalysts introduce in processes, depend on the specificity of their functions.

a) Generic catalysts accelerate the functionality of institutions or organizations. Their acceleration is (+).
b) Systemic catalysts accelerate the functionality of functions and roles. Their acceleration is (++).
c) Specific catalysts accelerate the functionality of processes. Their acceleration is (+++).
d) Conjunctural catalysts accelerate the functionality of conjuncture driven processes. Their acceleration is (++++).

The dysfunctionality of catalysts, because they are inconsistent with the environment or because they don’t have the necessary influence on it, deaccelerates social and business processes. The pilot testing of catalysts ensures their functionality.

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Why an Evolutionary Approach?

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The Unicist Evolutionary Approach is a fundamental approach to businesses that integrates a strategic approach to business functions, business intelligence and data management to generate sustainable growth. This approach integrates business growth with profitability and sustainability to increase the business value.

The Drivers of the Unicist Evolutionary Approach

The unicist evolutionary approach emulates the triadic organization of nature to foster the evolution of organizations and ensure their sustainability. Evolution needs to be managed to build sustainable organizations in adaptive environments.

The research of business functions and processes that has been developed since 1976, allowed defining their fundamentals.

The unicist fundamental approach to businesses has several precedents:

  1. Fundamental Analysis that allows defining the intrinsic stock value
  2. The Ishikawa method to manage root causes, based on the fundamentals of manufacturing quality
  3. The Overall Equipment Effectiveness method, of Seiichi Nakajima, that manages the fundamentals of effectiveness

The main epistemological precedents of the triadic structure of fundamentals can be found in Immanuel Kant, Charles S. Peirce and the Tao.

Organizational sustainability is based on the use of unicist universal strategies that allow developing future scenarios and building maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to ensure results. This unicist strategic approach emulates the functionality of living beings in nature.

This unicist evolutionary approach drives the sustainability of organizations ensuring the achievement of short- and long-term objectives.

Peter Belohlavek

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Unicist Innovation Strategy

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The purpose of innovation is to overcome scarcity. Only people or cultures, who have the will, find the way to overcome scarcity: this is the cultural context that fosters innovation. The driver of innovation is human creation. The word creation is used in the sense of recreation. Humans create based on the existing energy.

Unicist Innovation Strategy

The research on the process of innovation led to the ontological structure of innovation, which is defined as follows:

Four structural segments were identified. These segments of innovators are described as: Artisans, Technologists, Inventors and Discoverers.

The homeostatic function of innovation is freedom. This sounds paradoxical, because we define freedom as the path towards security to innovate. Innovation is sustained by internal and external freedom.

Cultures only develop innovations in the fields where such freedom exists. Censorship or self-censorship inhibits research and innovations.

That is why there are cultures where innovations are centered on arts or technologies, without entering the field of scientific innovation. Social capital, defined as the strength of the bonds among the members of a society, sustains innovations.

Peter Belohlavek

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