Business strategy

Personal Strategies: from heroic to conquering actions

November 25, 2014 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Business strategy / Conquering Strategy / Defensive Strategy / Dominant Strategy / Heroic Strategy / Personal Strategies / Peter Belohlavek / Strategic Actions / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Logical Approach / Unicist Strategy by Diego Belohlavek

Personal strategies begin with heroic actions to find a place in the world but achieve their maturity when conquering actions become possible to expand the boundaries of one’s activities.

Strategic actions seek to influence the environment actively. The action principle is given by the maximal strategy that is based on the opportunities offered by the environment. The minimum strategy, depending solely on the influencer’s action, is its energy conservation principle.

There are four ontological segments to develop strategic actions: Heroic Strategy, Defensive Strategy, Dominant Strategy and Conquering Strategy.

Level 1 – Heroic Strategy

The heroic strategy is performed by those who develop strategies based on individual heroic actions.

They are basically subjectivists who consider that individual efforts and smartness can prevail over systematically planned actions.

Heroic strategies are based on the personal costs individuals or members of a group are willing to pay.

Such individuals confront problems as personal challenges.

Level 2 – Defensive Strategy

The Defensive Strategy is performed by those who master the situations in which competitors attack.

These individuals are extremely smart when it is necessary to create alternatives to weaken others’ arguments.

They are usually very good analysts and utopists. Their ideas prevail over action.

They use their opponent’s forces to attack the implicit weaknesses of their strengths.

Level 3 – Dominant Strategy

The dominant strategy is performed naturally by those who are secure strategists and feel the need of taking the opportunities of the environment.

They are extremely good at diagnosing, and are able to picture the unified field of a business strategy without considering their personal interest.

They are strict ethical managers.

They are never satisfied. They always feel hunger for new expansive actions.

Level 4 – Conquering Strategy

This strategy is developed by those whose personal driver is conquering new positions.

They are natural doers with a strong intuition to perceive reality and its needs.

Conquerors are smart organizers. They usually lead their conquering campaigns personally.

Innovations and the creation of new paradigms are their natural tools to conquer new fields.

Speed based strategies and an endless energy reservoir are their raw material to adapt to the environment.

Conclusion

Action-reflection-action is the natural process to upgrade the level of a strategy. It requires learning through the actions in the environment, making the necessary mistakes, but avoiding their repetition. Good luck…

Diego Belohlavek

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.
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Cooperation Building is a Key Driver for Value Generation

May 28, 2014 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Business management / Business strategy / Diana Belohlavek / Peter Belohlavek / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Business Architecture / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by Diego Belohlavek

Cooperation is defined as the building of a common space of complementation in which the expansion of the boundaries of the participants becomes possible, while the individual limits of the members are respected.

The driver of cooperation building is the need to generate additional value. This requires an extreme focus on the results that need to be produced, using an integrative logic to integrate the needs of the participants and the external goals to be achieved.

Therefore, the generation of additional added value is part of the nature of cooperative environments.

Cooperation is based on human gregarious instinct and is natural between groups of people who have decided to expand their boundaries.

It is easily observable in the cooperation of countries and organizations of any kind. It adopts many shapes: collaboration, alliances, federations, confederations, etc.

Cooperation is not feasible in extreme individualistic or involving environments. In these environments competitiveness becomes extreme and cooperation is seen as a weakness.

This is a paradox that condemns these types of environments to live in a stagnated context with endless conflicts and/or conflict avoidance actions.

Diego Belohlavek

The Unicist Standard makes the emulation of nature reliable

February 28, 2013 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Business management / Business strategy / Diana Belohlavek / Peter Belohlavek / Scenario building / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Theory of Evolution by Diego Belohlavek

The Unicist Logical Approach is a breakthrough that made the emulation of nature in businesses possible. It allowed accelerating business processes and save energy.

The Unicist Standard was developed to sustain the Unicist Logical Approach and the building of Unicist Business Objects. Unicist Business Objects are adaptive systems that are designed to produce a predefined result in a process.

The Unicist Standard is necessary to manage the unicist logical approach in a meaningful way to produce results. The Unicist Standard defines the benchmarks for future scenario building, diagnostics, strategy and architecture that need to be followed.

For those who are entering in the unicist approach we strongly recommend taking into account that the following conditions need to be given:

The person has to be fully responsible for producing measurable results. Functionality has to prevail over subjectivity.

The person needs to be a spontaneous complementation builder to foster synergy and growth. https://www.unicist.net/management/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nature-of-complementation-en.pdf

The person needs to have decided to use the double dialectical logic to be able to emulate in mind the structure of nature to diagnose, exceeding a dualistic rationalist approach.
https://www.unicist.net/management/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/wp_unicist_thinking_en.pdf

The person needs to have rationally apprehended the Unicist Theory of Evolution in order to be able to understand the dynamics and evolution of the adaptive system where the results need to be produced.
https://www.unicist.net/management/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/unicist-theory-evolution.pdf

Diego Belohlavek

NOTE: TURI was the pioneer in using a logical approach to deal with evolution and became a private global decentralized world-class research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. http://www.unicist.org

Unicist Debates: Building Collaborative Environments

January 15, 2013 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Business diagnostics / Business strategy / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Approach / Unicist Business Architecture / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by The Unicist Research Institute

Unicist debates are an approach to collaboration in fields where the nature of problems needs to be apprehended. It requires assuming the premise that all the participants of a debate are right.

This implies that the participants of a debate have sound knowledge of what is being discussed and are sure that a superior apprehension of reality can be achieved.

In plain language, this means that when two positions A and B appear to be incompatible, a superior integration of both positions has to be found.

This necessarily requires a double dialectical approach in order to integrate the apparent contradictions in their oneness. This requires integrating them with a third element which demands perceiving the double dialectics.

Dualistic dialectics hinders this approach and drives toward a conflict to find who is right. In this case, the use of action-reflection-action processes allows transforming dualistic dialectics into double dialectical approaches.

The benefit of these unicist debates is the accurate diagnoses and strategies in adaptive environments and the definition of what is possible to be achieved.

Unicist Debates

Meaningful debates happen while something is being constructed. They are not rationalistic exercises. Unicist debates are based on the conjunction “and” and not on the exclusive disjunction “or”.

There are four principles implicit:

Assuming that our fellow is right
Assuming that one might not have all the elements of a certain reality
Accepting that the participant’s knowledge must include experiencing
Accepting the oneness of a given functional reality

When those who are debating disagree, a higher level of knowledge must be achieved. At this level, the disagreeing affirmations are partially true but integrated. (See “Q” Method)

Debates happen while something is being constructed.

The depth of the knowledge of participants and their humbleness defines the limits of the possibilities of a Unicist approach to debates.

The Unicist Debates are the methodology that is used in all our collaborative projects, think tanks, and destructive testing processes. They are based on a “solution-thinking” attitude to improve the quality and accuracy of decisions.

Martin Alvaro

The Unicist Approach to Efficacy in Work Processes

January 12, 2013 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Business management / Business strategy / fundamental analysis / Object Driven Organization / Peter Belohlavek / Unicist Business Architecture / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Theory of Evolution by Diego Belohlavek

The Unicist Approach defines that efficacy is the capacity of individuals to produce results in a responsible way. This implies that efficacy requires awareness of what one is doing.

The unicist ontogenetic map defines that the integration of the levels of efficiency, efficacy and automation produce the effectiveness in work processes.

To change effectiveness in processes it is necessary to manage the unique manageable sub-concept which is efficacy.

Human activity needs to be managed also if effectiveness needs to be improved within the boundaries of an existing system. That is why the change of effectiveness needs to be introduced managing the active function.

The driver to change efficiency is also a human activity. That is why efficacy has to be the driver.

Changing the efficiency level may require a significant modification of the automation level of an activity. This generates a mutation of the work process.

The fundamentals of efficacy can by defined as:

The identification with the role: Efficacy requires that individuals are identified with the role they are fulfilling when they work. The role can be defined as the social identity of the individual.

The identification with the task: Efficacy requires having the necessary competencies to develop a task that allows enjoying the work.

Knowledge: Knowledge implies having the necessary “knowledge objects” to do the work stored in the long term memory.

The efficacy of individuals can be calculated using the mathematics of the Unicist Logic:

Unicist Efficacy = I(R) * I(T) * K

Individuals need to assume the responsibility of working in the field of their efficacy which defines the limits of the possibilities for assuming responsibilities to produce results.

Evolution implies developing the active function, while the energy conservation function tends to compensate the changes or not.

When the purpose is significantly changed, which is the case of automation, a mutation of work stations is being produced.

In the industrial fields, efficiency and efficacy can be managed using the unicist fishbone which has been developed, based on the Ishikawa model, integrating all the elements that are part of a unicist ontological structure.

Diego Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became a global decentralized world-class research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. http://www.unicist.org

The Unicist Innovations in Management

June 29, 2012 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Object driven Technologies tagged Business diagnostics / Business management / Business planning / Business strategy / Change management / Conceptual design / Continuous improvement / Peter Belohlavek / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by Diana Belohlavek

The introduction of Unicist Object Driven Management simplified the role of managers. The integration of hardware and software to fulfill the objectives of peopleware made businesses more predictable.

The use of objects expanded the boundaries of managers’ activity and allowed dealing with the adaptive aspects of businesses to foster their expansion. The following description will give the basics of the innovation.

The activities of the Unicist Confederation are expanding based on the introduction of the unicist ontology and business objects driven technologies.

The Object Driven Organization of the adaptive aspects of businesses is the technology included in all the “solutions” for business optimization.

The Confederation itself also uses business objects for its growth. These objects ensure the critical mass of the solutions it provides to the market. Business solutions require the use of driving, catalyzing and gravitational business objects.

1) The business objects are the drivers of the activity providing the solutions that generate significant energy savings and optimization of results to their users.

2) The unicist approach, including diagnoses, strategies and architectures of the solutions is the catalyst of the Confederation’s proposals.

3) The emulation of nature in business is the gravitational object that sustains the activities of the Confederation.

This approach segments the market. Basically, it can be said that the object driven approach is necessary for business expansion and convenient for business administration.

Energy Saving in Business Management

May 6, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business management / Business strategy / Change resistance / Continuous improvement / Innovation management / Intelligent Systems / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution by Peter Belohlavek

Work implies producing a displacement of something in the real world. Every displacement generates a friction that needs to be managed.

When two people are doing something in a working environment and one of them produces work and the other is inactive, the friction produced is extremely destructive.

It produces a paradoxical situation because:

1) There is an extreme conflict if the friction is not eliminated.
2) If the parts are “lubricated”, there will be no friction but the person who is inactive will continue doing nothing.
3) The inactive person needs to judge what the other part is doing because that judgment sustains her/his self-esteem.
4) Finally, the one who does the work ends up being judged by the one who cannot do it and the conflict escalates to the maximal level.

Apparent movement is worse than inaction

Inaction appears often hidden behind apparent actions that are done without having assumed the responsibility for producing results. These apparent actions are based on fallacious decisions that produce negative results because they generate costs without adding value.

In this case they do not produce friction; they directly produce an “explosion” of the situation or an “implosion” of the actions.

If this conflict is not faced the natural trend towards minimum energy consumption (*) and inaction will prevail, eliminating both apparent actions and real actions.

To deal with this problem the nature of doers has to be understood in order to avoid their quitting. Access a free e-book on the Nature of Doers http://unicist.org/deb_doers.php

(*) In a closed system, with constant external parameters and entropy, the internal energy will decrease and approach a minimum value at equilibrium.

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Think Green: The Unicist Standard in Business Management

April 19, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business strategy / Conceptual design / Diego Belohlavek / Innovation management / Intelligent Systems / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution by Diego Belohlavek

Thinking Green in the field of Business Management implies organizing processes using energy saving technologies.

The Unicist Standard in Management implies the use of Unicist Object Driven Management to integrate objects in the processes to integrate hardware with software and peopleware.

The final result is a Unicist Cybernetic approach that minimizes the energy consumed by the management process while increasing the reliability and the focus on value generation.

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Learning from Procter & Gamble using the Unicist Standard

April 6, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business diagnostics / Business management / Business strategy / Diana Belohlavek / Innovation management / Intelligent Systems / Procter & Gamble / Unicist / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution / unicist ontology of evolution by Diana Belohlavek

The notorious capacity of Procter & Gamble is given by the way it manages the social insertion of innovations.

We recommend watching the following two short presentations of Procter & Gamble at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycMXZDybhlw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x93YopVXJSM

Innovation is the basis for economic growth. Essentially, countries, cultures, institutions, and individuals grow only in the fields where they are open to innovations.

The purpose of innovation is to overcome scarcity. That is why only people or cultures that 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.

The maximal strategy of innovations drives towards the solution of a scarcity. Therefore innovative organizations have the perception that they add value to the environment. But this is only true if the minimum strategy is also fulfilled.

The minimum strategy implies inserting the innovations into the social capital of the environment. Social capital is defined by the strength of the bonds that integrate the members of a community.

Commercial innovations need to be only one step ahead of the habits of the environment. If they are more than one step ahead they fail, unless there is an extreme need and they are, implicitly, a “back to basics”.

In this field Procter & Gamble is a notorious benchmark.

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Unicist Org Lab: Unicist Continuous Improvement Alliances

March 23, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business management / Business strategy / business objects / Change management / Conceptual design / Continuous improvement / Innovation management / Intelligent Systems / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution by The Unicist Research Institute

Unicist Continuous Improvement is based on the use of objects. It implies improving the objects included in processes in order to obtain results.

Continuous improvement integrates innovation to improve the processes and the objects that are being used to ensure the achievement of a higher level of effectiveness.

The natural segments of continuous improvement are:

1) Repair
2) Update
3) Upgrade
4) Renewal

Maximal strategies are driven by innovation. They are put into action by the implementation of big changes that go beyond the existing boundaries of the present operation and are sustained by the external need represented by the client centered management.

Minimum strategies are driven by quality assurance, put into action by the development and implementation of medium changes and sustained by the personalized organization that ensures an effective participative action model.

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