Unicist Cobots

Unicist Cobots in the 4th Industrial Revolution

December 2, 2021 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Binary Actions / Intelligent Systems / Unicist Artificial Intelligence / Unicist Cobots / Unicist Functional Design by The Unicist Research Institute

Unicist Cobots are collaborative business robots that sustain human activities. They significantly increase the efficiency and adaptability of processes. They are systems that foster growth and increase profitability.

Cobots simplify businesses by managing the functionality of their processes. They are the core approach to manage businesses in the 4th industrial revolution.

In this context, there are operational, managerial and commercial cobots.

On the other hand, cobots might have two basic functions. Forward integration, which includes the development of adaptive automation, and backward integration, that provides the necessary knowledge for decision making processes.

The Use of Unicist AI

Cobots became possible due to the discovery and development of the unicist logic and the development of unicist AI that allow defining and implementing the binary actions that are needed to ensure results in businesses.

The unicist AI is a fundamentals-based AI that uses indicators, predictors and the rules established by the unicist logic.

It allows developing the necessary automation of business processes that allows managing the adaptability of business functions. Unicist AI solves the subjective bias of data-based AI.

The Use of Binary Actions

Any adaptive system and environment is driven by binary actions. Binary actions are two synchronized actions that expand businesses while they ensure their results. Unicist AI allows defining the natural binary actions that are needed in a process.

Binary actions were developed to manage the evolution of adaptive environments by managing actions to install maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to ensure results.

There are two types of binary actions: catalyzing actions and driving actions. Their functionality is defined by the ontogenetic maps of the business processes.

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Efficacy in the 4th Industrial Revolution

August 28, 2021 in Unicist Binary Actions / Unicist Cobots tagged Organizational Design / Professional Efficacy by The Unicist Research Institute

Efficacy is needed to deal with adaptive environments. Professional efficacy is based on the existence of a personal purpose that sustains the motivation and makes the activity meaningful. This purpose provides the necessary energy to overcome the difficulties that are implicit in any adaptive behavior. This purpose is materialized through the functional intelligence to manage the activities that works as the catalyst of efficacy.

Efficacy requires that the roles the work processes provide be meaningful. It also requires that the people have the necessary functional knowledge to assume the responsibility for results and enjoy the tasks that need to be developed.

Thus, the personal purpose is the gravitational force that sustains efficacy and the intelligence people have is the catalyst that makes efficacy possible. Efficacy is replaced by efficiency when there is no purpose or no functional intelligence to manage the environment. Efficiency implies the use of trained automated behavior to deal with work, which is functional to manage programmed work processes.

The Research

The research on efficacy became an urgent matter to define the next stage of automation, which implies increasing the level of adaptability of organizations. This research was led by Peter Belohlavek at The Unicist Research Institute.

It was based on expanding the intrinsic concept of efficacy that was researched almost 40 years ago.
https://www.unicist.net/management/the-unicist-approach-to-efficacy-in-work-processes/
This research required implementing adaptive automation with the participation of executives and professionals to find the fields where their efficacy is functional to the goals of organizations. It included the development of the necessary destructive tests to confirm that the behavior was based on conscious intelligence and not on unconscious automatisms.

You can find the new stage of business organization demanded by the introduction of adaptive automation, the use of telework and new aspects of management in the 4^th Industrial Revolution at:
https://www.unicist.net/conceptual-design/enterprise-4-0/

Conclusion

Organizing the adaptability and customer orientation of businesses reinforced by the 4^th Industrial Revolution requires the necessary efficacy that is functional to the characteristics of the business and that people work within the framework generated by the use of adaptive automation. It has to be considered that the efficacy of people in a specific field defines their learning capacity. The core of organizing is installing people in jobs where they have their highest level of efficacy.

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Pseudo-Changes to avoid Changes

September 17, 2019 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Functional Design tagged Change management / Pseudo Changes by The Unicist Research Institute

The introduction of changes in organizations or social environments requires that the members can assimilate them into their preexisting habits. Changes are transformed into pseudo-changes when they cannot be assimilated.

The objective of a pseudo-change is to avoid big changes that modify the structural organization of an environment.

This purpose can be achieved using palliatives to solve problems, which allow building the necessary fallacious myths to protect the behavior of the environment, avoiding the need for introducing structural changes.

These fallacious myths can be installed due to the catharsis they trigger. This catharsis empowers the members of the environment and drives towards inaction. Catharsis is what allows using palliatives to face structural problems without needing to manage the root causes of the problems.

The use of palliatives is sustained by the building of justifications to avoid facing the responsibility for solving the structural problem and the participants feel fulfilled by the use of conjunctural solutions.

Pseudo-change is a normal behavior in conservative environments where the use of palliatives is considered a valid approach to problem solving.

Diego Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute has been, since 1976, the pioneer in complexity science research where the Unicist Evolutionary Approach was developed. It was one of the precursors of the Industry 4.0 concept.

Managing Unicist Concepts

January 2, 2019 in Unicist Binary Actions / Unicist Cobots tagged Business Fundamentals / Conceptual design / The Unicist Research Institute by Peter Belohlavek

Managing the concepts of things ensures their functionality. Unicist conceptual design was developed to manage the conceptual structure of something that is being built, that defines the unicist ontological structure that defines its nature and the root causes of their functionality.

Unicist conceptual design simplifies the building of things by transforming the unified field of the processes into structured operational solutions.

It is based on the fact that the concepts people have in their mind, which are stored in their long-term memory, drive their actions.

The structure of these concepts is defined by their unicist ontology that is integrated by a purpose, an active and entropic function and an energy conservation function.

These concepts are an emulation of the ontogenetic intelligence of nature that defines the intrinsic concepts that underlie the functionality of living beings and drives their growth and the survival as a species.

Human deeds have the concepts defined by the functionality of these deeds that are cross-cultural and timeless and exist as long as the functionality exists. Although their structure does not change the operational functionality is fully environment dependent.

Peter Belohlavek

Managing the Fundamentals of Things

December 17, 2018 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Functional Design tagged Business Fundamentals / Unicist Conceptual Management by Peter Belohlavek

This Unicist Conceptual Management model upgrades, but includes, the preexisting traditional approach to business management. This upgrade is a paradigm shift in management that allowed managing root causes, developing the conceptual design of solutions, building maximal and minimum strategies and developing the necessary actions to produce results.

In other words,what the Unicist Conceptual Management did, was upgrading the management approach to ensure the generation of value.

Traditional management is based on technical analysis while conceptual management is based on the integration of concepts, fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Unicist concepts and fundamentals define the root causes of problems and are the root drivers of solutions.

The paradigm shift introduced by Unicist Conceptual Management is at the same time a back to basics that synthesizes the nature of business management.

Peter 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

Unicist Business Therapeutics

September 20, 2018 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Peter Belohlavek / The Unicist Research Institute / The Unicist School / Unicist Business Therapeutics / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by The Unicist Research Institute

Unicist Business Therapeutics is a consultation book for any business architect that needs to make accurate diagnoses and design palliatives, cures and growth organizational strategies. This book is based on the researches led by Peter Belohlavek at The Unicist Research Institute.

This is an introduction to the Institutional Therapeutics based on the Unicist Standard and is oriented to all those who are responsible for the increase of companies value, their growth and profitability using the necessary innovation to make this possible.

Medical practice has two different languages that are used by the physician: on the one hand, one to communicate with the patients, and on the other hand, another to communicate with colleagues.

Business Therapeutics practice also has two languages:

the operational commonsense language for “patients”
The technical analytical and fundamental language for “physicians”

This e-book is written in conceptual language, the language of fundamentals, using the USL (Unicist Standard Language). Here you will find all the fundamentals you need to manage when solving structural problems in businesses.

It is usable by all those who are able to see organizations as entities with independent life from their members. It requires dealing with the needs of shareholders, stakeholders and the markets and considering these agents as individual but interdependent entities.

This will show you why the sole application of palliatives generates chronic stagnated characteristics of companies that are only functional in low-competitive markets.

You will also be able to recognize business viruses, why they are installed in companies, who introduces them and how they can be cured and palliated.

This book is only meaningful while analyzing a real company that has structural problems to solve or having the real and complete history of a company that has solved them.

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The Unicist Approach to the 4th Industrial Revolution

January 10, 2018 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Industry 4.0 / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Approach / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by The Unicist Research Institute

Introduction to Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 implies introducing adaptiveness in organizations. Business functions are adaptive when their functionality is feedback dependent. The Unicist Research Institute was one of the precursors of Industry 4.0 through the development of complexity sciences to deal with adaptive systems and environments.

This concept applied to business requires managing the root causes of processes to ensure their reliability. This requires managing the concepts of the business functions involved. The level of industrialization depends on the outputs that need to be produced by the business functions. Therefore, different levels of industrialization coexist in most organizations.

Industry 4.0 became possible due to the evolution of IT technologies, conceptual management and artificial intelligence. Its goal is to develop businesses as adaptive systems, which implies customer orientation and improving productivity and quality that naturally foster market growth and profit improvement.

The implementation of Industry 4.0 in business processes might include:

The use of a strategic approach and business intelligence to plan and manage growth.
The use of tools with artificial intelligence to manage adaptive environments.
The use of conceptual management to define business functions.
The use of conceptual design to develop business processes.
The use of business objects to ensure the productivity and quality of business processes.
The use of client centered management to ensure customer orientation.
The use of market labs to monitor markets.
The use of root cause management to ensure the reliability of results.
The use of adaptive IT solutions.

The introduction of adaptiveness in organizations is a step by step process, that needs to generate economic benefits from the beginning. It needs to follow two basic rules:

It has to be introduced from “the outside to the inside”, from the external needs to the internal needs, which implies starting with the functions that influence the environment.
It needs to be managed from “top to bottom”, which implies the commitment of the management in this change.

Intelligent Systems to deal with Adaptive Environments

The concept of Industry 4.0, applied to a business as a whole, is necessary to produce sustainable growth. It is based on the use of intelligent systems to simplify the approach to adaptive environments.

The 4th Industrial Revolution introduced adaptiveness in the industrial and business world. The Industry 4.0 concept proposes to manage businesses as adaptive systems increasing customer orientation, productivity and quality.

It has to be considered that the Unicist Theory and its applications were a precursor of the Industry 4.0 concept.

This theory was developed to understand the evolution of adaptive entities and to manage adaptive systems and environments.
https://www.unicist-school.org/complexity-sciences/the-paradigm-shift/

The Unicist Approach became mature in the market when the hard technologies allowed developing adaptive industrial processes and gave birth to Industry 4.0.

If you are not aware of the concept of Industry 4.0, you can begin by entering the Wikipedia at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_4.0

Industry 4.0, as a concept, can be synthetically defined as the “revolution of adaptive business processes”. Adaptability requires managing the concepts of the business functions in order to be able to integrate different people, technologies, processes, systems, objects and tools.

As the previous industrial revolutions, Industry 4.0 coexists with the previous stages, providing a significant competitive advantage for those who enter this stage.

The Concept of the 4th Industrial Revolution

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 show 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 the functionality of processes to increase their productivity and quality and to ensure their reliability.

A Revolution for Growth

The evolution of IT, Internet and Artificial Intelligence finally allowed transforming adaptiveness into the 4^th Industrial Revolution. Growth and business expansion is the effect produced by the introduction of this revolution. Growth is the consequence of adaptiveness, which allows empowering customer centricity while increasing productivity and quality.

Unicist Artificial Intelligence

Unicist artificial intelligence was developed to manage adaptive systems and environments. It is a core tool when dealing with the concept of “Industry 4.0” applied to businesses.
https://www.unicist.org/conceptual-thinking/unicist-artificial-intelligence/

It allows monitoring adaptive solutions by using the unicist logic that emulates the intelligence that underlies nature. It provides a tool for root cause management, unicist business strategy building and conceptual management.

When dealing with big data it is complemented with neural networks to develop reliable big data analytics.

The unicist artificial intelligence allows developing monitors to manage business intelligence, business strategy, marketing and designing business functions and business objects. It allows emulating and supporting the development of solutions in the mind of deciders.

The unicist artificial intelligence allows building monitors to emulate and develop adaptive systems in social, economic and business environments.

Industry 4.0

Adaptive solutions can only be managed by structured flexible processes with a high level of productivity and quality.

Adaptability requires managing the concepts and fundamentals of the business functions, which allow managing the root causes of market behavior, the root causes of businesses processes and the root causes of industrial processes to ensure customer satisfaction, productivity and quality.

The following technologies are part of Industry 4.0:

Unicist Business Strategy: to develop maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to ensure profits.
Unicist Conceptual Management: to manage businesses as adaptive systems and organize using business objects.
Unicist Root Cause Management: to manage the root causes of business problems based on the knowledge of the fundamentals of the business functions.
Unicist Root Cause Marketing: to expand markets based on the management of the root causes of buying processes.

The Unicist Approach: A Precursor of Industry 4.0

The unicist approach is based on the Unicist Theory, which introduced a paradigm shift in sciences that allowed managing complex adaptive entities, systems and environments. The multiple applications of the unicist theory allowed developing the paradigm shift in business to manage businesses as adaptive systems to generate sustainable growth.

The organizational aspects are sustained by the following discoveries:

The functionality of concepts as drivers of human actions.
Unicist Strategy, that emulates the intelligence of nature, to develop maximal strategies and minimum strategies.
The structure of the concepts of economic, social, political and market behavior to develop Business Intelligence.
Unicist Object Driven Organization, that emulates the organization of nature, to build business objects.
Unicist Artificial Intelligence that allows managing the root causes of business processes.

The market oriented aspects are sustained by the following discoveries:

The roots of human intelligence and their functionality.
The functionality of concepts as triggers and root causes of buying decisions.
The structure and functionality of collective intelligence.
The structure and functionality of marketing objects.
Unicist Artificial Intelligence that allows managing the root causes of buying processes.

The unicist paradigm shift was developed at The Unicist Research Institute, which has been, since 1976, a pioneer in complexity science research, that is fully focused on developing solutions to deal with adaptive entities, systems and environments.

The focus on sustainable growth drove to the development of the Unicist Conceptual Management approach to manage businesses as adaptive systems. It allows introducing the concept of Industry 4.0 and applying it beyond productive processes. Unicist Conceptual Management was developed to manage sustainable growth.

Considered from the point of view of the industrial process maturity it requires the use of:

Client Centered Management to ensure customer orientation, value generation and results.
Conceptual Design to manage the unified field of business functions and define the functionality of the adaptive systems.
Unicist Artificial Intelligence to manage the dynamics and evolution of adaptive systems.
Unicist Object Driven Organization to install business objects, working as adaptive systems, within the business processes to increase their productivity and quality.

Industrial Revolutions and Mindsets

Industrial Revolutions foster and establish dominant mindsets to fulfill their purposes. These mindsets include the preceding mindset as complementary approaches.

Operational thinking is the dominant mindset in the 1st Industrial Revolution.

Mechanization requires operational thinking and the solutions provided by this stage deal with the operation of things.

Analytical thinking is the dominant mindset in the 2nd Industrial Revolution.

The analytical approach allows managing mass production in a meaningful way by dividing these masses into manageable entities.

Systemic thinking is the dominant mindset in the 3rd Industrial Revolution.

Automation requires envisioning the unified field of the operation and its components in order to build the automated processes.

Conceptual thinking is the dominant mindset in the 4th Industrial Revolution.

The Industry 4.0 stage is based on improving the adaptiveness of processes by being fully consumer/user/buyer oriented, increasing the productivity, which implies improving the cost-value relation and increasing the quality to become fully reliable.

The Unicist Logic to Deal with Adaptive Environments

The unicist logic is an emulation of the logic that underlies nature that allows understanding and managing adaptive systems and environments. It has to be considered that systems are adaptive when their produces are feedback dependent.

This logic allowed defining the structure of the concepts and fundamentals that define the root causes of the functionality of adaptive systems making them reasonable, understandable and predictable. The resulting artificial intelligence allows ensuring the results of adaptive systems and provides the conceptual structure of business functions, of business scenarios and for big data analysis.

Thus, the unicist logic provided the structure to define, design and manage adaptive processes and the necessary knowledge of the concepts and fundamentals that underlie business functions. This ensures the adaptive behavior in markets which naturally generates growth.

The Unicist Paradigm Shift: The DNA of Businesses

The Unicist Paradigm Shift in Business establishes the framework of the unicist approach to the 4th Industrial Revolution. It defines the different technologies and methodologies to be used to manage businesses as adaptive systems.

The discovery of the intelligence that underlies nature allowed emulating it, emulating its organization and emulating its evolution.

This drove to the discovery of the structure and functionality of concepts and fundamentals that drive human behavior and underlie things which define the root causes of adaptive environments.

This structure of concepts defines the DNA of organizations and adaptive systems that allowed managing the root causes of their functionality.

This upgraded business management, introducing a new stage in business diagnostics, future research, business strategy, business architecture and applying it to business process design. This approach established the conceptual structure of Industry 4.0.

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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 provided a framework to introduce the 4th Industrial Revolution. https://www.unicist.org/turi.pdf

Unicist Root Cause Management applied to Management

October 4, 2017 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Conceptual design / Conceptual Management / Root Cause Management / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by The Unicist Research Institute

Unicist Conceptual Management, that is a paradigm shift in business management, is the synthesis of the nature of business management. It includes the management of the future scenario that allows designing a strategy, the knowledge of the root-causes of problems and the root-drivers of business processes, the development of the conceptual design to define these processes and the development of the maximal and minimum strategy actions to ensure results.

The fact that concepts drive human actions and define the root-causes of things drove to the development of Unicist Conceptual Management that materializes the unicist approach to businesses. This development drove management towards a superior level of possibilities.

The evolution of IT solutions and tools made the operational aspects of business manageable. This evolution, in which the operational aspects have been solved, requires a different kind of knowledge to manage businesses. This knowledge is simpler, but requires dealing with the root-causes of things to manage the structure of businesses.

Business management in the XXI Century requires, besides the functional leadership skills, managing the concepts of a business and the concepts of the restricted and wide contexts to be able to expand the business and ensure its permanence.

This unicist conceptual management approach upgrades, but includes, the preexisting traditional approach to business management.

This upgrade is a paradigm shift in management that allowed managing root-causes, developing the conceptual design of solutions, building maximal and minimum strategies and developing the necessary actions to produce results.

In other words, what the unicist conceptual management did, was upgrading the management approach to ensure the generation of value.

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NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in using the unicist logical approach in complexity science research and became a private global decentralized leading research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. It has an academic arm and a business arm.

Traditional Management versus Unicist Conceptual Management

July 13, 2017 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Logical Approach tagged Business management / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Conceptual Management / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by The Unicist Research Institute

This unicist conceptual management approach upgrades, but includes, the preexisting traditional approach to business management. This upgrade is a paradigm shift in management that allowed managing root-causes, developing the conceptual design of solutions, building maximal and minimum strategies and developing the necessary actions to produce results. In other words, what the unicist conceptual management did, was upgrading the management approach to ensure the generation of value.

The unicist conceptual management approach integrates:

Business Strategy: The Unicist Strategy emulates the strategy implicit in the intelligence that underlies nature and establishes a maximal strategy to grow and a minimum strategy to survive.
Conceptual Design: This conceptual design defines the unified field of the functions of adaptive systems and defines their dynamic process architecture.
Root-Cause Management: It manages the root-causes of problems and the root-drivers of solutions.
Unicist Actions: This approach defines the actions that need to be done following a logical synchronicity in order to work as a critical mass to ensure results in adaptive environments.

Benefits of the Unicist Conceptual Management Approach:

+40% increase of the speed of business growth
+25% of increase of marketing effectiveness
+20% of cost saving in business processes
+30% of complex projects cost saving
99.5% of results assurance
80% of cost reduction for business process maintenance and improvement
+30% increase in the efficacy of the participants

This superior level of business design and management became possible due to the discovery and emulation of the intelligence that underlies nature and the discovery that concepts drive human actions. This is the management model of the XXI Century.

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The Unicist Approach to Root Causes

June 1, 2017 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Logical Approach tagged Structural Business Solutions / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Conceptual Design / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by Peter Belohlavek

A superior level of business design became possible due to the discovery of the structure of the intelligence that underlies nature and the discovery that concepts drive human actions. These actions are triggered by the conceptual short-term memory (CSTM) and stored in the long-term memory (LTM), working as an automatic response that needs to fit into a required functionality.

It has to be considered that unicist concepts and fundamentals define the root-causes of problems and are the root-drivers of solutions. They allow defining what is possible to be achieved and develop the maximal and minimum strategies and actions to make it happen.

The researches allowed defining the triadic structure of the intrinsic concepts that regulate the evolution of living beings and the extrinsic concepts that underlie the functionality of inanimate entities that define their nature. Concepts include maximal and minimum strategic functions to grow and to ensure survival and are integrated by the fundamentals that drive the functionality of entities.

This drove to the discovery that the root-causes of the functionality of any process are given by the underlying concepts and their fundamentals. (See the Ishikawa’s root-cause diagrams)

The Unicist Research Institute developed, since 1976, more than 5,000 researches to develop the unicist ontological structures that define the functional concepts in the field of social, institutional and individual evolution.

The unicist approach to business is based on the research of the concepts that underlie business functions that allowed dealing with their nature, managing the root-causes of problems and the root-drivers of solutions in order to define structural business solutions that:

increase significantly the effectiveness of business processes
allow expanding the boundaries of businesses without changing their concepts
reduce notoriously the costs
ensure the achievement of results

Conceptual design is the approach needed to organize based on the concepts of business processes. It has to be considered, that the structure of concepts is timeless (it exists while the function exists) and cross-cultural, while their operational functionality is environment dependent. As human actions are driven by the concepts they have, the accuracy of conceptual design is the core of business organization in adaptive environments, where efficacy and efficiency need to be integrated.

Peter Belohlavek