Change management

Change Management Using Intelligent Apps

October 20, 2021 in Unicist Functional Design tagged Change Agents / Change management by The Unicist Research Institute

The possibilities that have been opened by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution introduced two new situations that fostered adaptability within organizations:

On the one hand, the adaptive automation processes simplified the approach to the changes introduced by the markets.
On the other hand, it changed the role of the “change agent” that moved from people to intelligent applications. Now organization do not need “heroes” to work as change agents. They just need to have an adaptive approach sustained by intelligent systems and apps.

The synthesis on change management that is published below exposes the functionalist approach to changes that has been developed at The Unicist Research Institute.

Characteristics of small, big and medium changes:

1) Small Changes

Small changes are those where there is no structural change involved. The change of management is, in itself, a small change. The change of management becomes a medium or big change if managers are changed to introduce a new structure.

2) Big Changes

Big changes necessarily produce conflicts in an organization. Big changes require all the energy of an organization to be implemented. When big changes are necessary it is because there has been a structural change of the environment that made an organization dysfunctional. But big changes can be divided into medium changes that can now be managed by intelligent applications designed by the people involved.

Big Change Implementation:

Define the nature of the future situation
Define the nature of the present situation
Understand the real need
Design driving objects
Design catalysts to accelerate processes
Define the implementation taxonomy
Implement change

3) Medium Changes are now Intelligent Apps Driven

Medium changes might be autonomous changes or be part of a big change. Medium changes require the participation of the individuals that are committed with the process that is being changed.

The participation is now driven by intelligent applications that allow introducing stages of big changes without generating resistance.

To introduce medium changes it is necessary to deal with a “participation model” that allows people to participate in the change of their activities, which implies participating in the design of the intelligent applications.

Medium changes are based on “Avant Garde Groups” that introduce the changes in the organization based on a part-time activity within their work environment.

Confirmation of how Apps work as Change Agents

We invite you to confirm this approach by taking a deeper look at the apps of your smartphone where you will see which of the applications introduced a change in your habits and which are being ignored for being unnecessary. Anyhow, there are extreme situations where change agents are needed, but it must be considered that most of the “heroes” die young.

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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

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Discovery of the Ontogenetic Structure of Leadership

May 7, 2014 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Object driven Technologies tagged 100 major unicist discoveries / Change management / Leadership / Object Driven Organization / Ontogenetic Structure of Leadership / Peter Belohlavek / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Logical Approach by Unicist Press Committee

The unicist ontogenetic structure of leadership describes the nature of leadership in order to be able to use the adequate leadership for any situation. Understanding the nature of leadership is basic to find the natural place to develop one’s activities. It also helps to understand how to influence people and how to respond to the influence of others.

The basics of leadership

Leadership is based on the need to sustain one’s authority. The participation of others is a condition of leadership. A leader is such because s/he is followed.

Therefore, in terms of the unicist logic, participation is the active function of leadership and the energy conservation function is given by the power a leader has to impose her/his authority. But this is a sort of paradox.

The energy conservation function is given by the power the individual “does not use”. If the power is used it consumes energy and, in fact, a double amount of energy, because:

To impose something there is a need to exert power and consume energy.
When power is exerted, authority is being lost, because it means that the authority of the individual has not been accepted. And in this case, an additional amount of energy must be invested to reconstruct the value of the authoritative role.

Participation poses another paradoxical dilemma:

When the authority of the leader is extreme, for example a religious leader, the participation is not possible.
When the participation is extreme, there is no possibility to accept an authoritative role.

(*) This development is one of the “100 major unicist discoveries that are changing the world”:
https://www.unicist.net/management/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100-major-unicist-discoveries.pdf

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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.

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. https://www.unicist.net/management/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/turi.pdf

Approaching fundamentals to deal with adaptive systems

April 20, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business diagnostics / Change management / Continuous improvement / Diego Belohlavek / fundamental analysis / Intelligent Systems / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution by Diego Belohlavek

Fundamentals define the nature of reality. The unicist technology for diagnostics approaches problems based on their nature.

Problems turn complex when results must be achieved, and require a high accuracy of the diagnoses, prognoses and action plans to solve them. Unicist technologies for diagnostics were developed to ensure results.

The unicist approach considers any specific reality, on which influence intends to be exerted, as a unified field. This is the origin of the name unicist.

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https://www.unicist.net/management/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/unicist_standard_guide_en.pdf

Diagnosing implies describing the functionality of a reality. And this description includes the internal cause-effect relations, whether they are univocal or bi-univocal.

From that point on, a prognosis of the natural evolution of that reality has to be developed and then an action plan to influence such reality is included in the final diagnosis. Unicist diagnoses include: descriptions, prognoses and action plans.

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Diego Belohlavek
Expert System Manager

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Benchmarking Procter & Gamble: Unicist Innovation

March 26, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business management / business objects / Change management / Continuous improvement / Diana Belohlavek / Innovation management / Procter & Gamble / Unicist / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution by The Unicist Research Institute

Procter & Gamble is a world leader in innovation. This allows learning from P&G how to manage innovation to make it successful in the markets.

The Unicist Standard includes a fundamental approach to deal with innovations that allows integrating fundamentals with technical analytical knowledge to produce successful innovations.

The question we are posing is: Which are the fundamentals of innovation?

You can find information on how Procter & Gamble deals with innovations presented by Robert Bob McDonald, COO of Procter & Gamble. There are two short presentations at:

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

In one week you will find a response to the fundamentals of innovation on this blog.

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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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Martin Alvaro
Marketing Manager

Using the Unicist Standard to learn from Unilever

March 18, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business management / Change management / Diana Belohlavek / Intelligent Systems / Leadership / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution / Unilever / unicist ontology of evolution by The Unicist Research Institute

Unicist Object Driven Leadership is a back to basics. The concept of leadership is defined by the integration of Authority, Participation and Power. This is self-evident. But the question is: Which are the Fundamentals of Leadership?

In the following lines you will find an answer to the question posed in this blog last week: http://unicist.net/management/benchmarking-unilever-unicist-object-driven-leadership/

Objects sustain the power of leaders avoiding to exert such power. In this sense, objects work as:

1) Drivers to make things happen
2) Catalysts to accelerate action
3) Inhibitors, working as a non-exerted dissuasion power
4) Gravitational forces of leaders’ authority

Using Unicist Object Driven Leadership you will be accessing a new world, which is at the same time a back to basics. It implies producing more results and being a natural leader in all those fields where you can integrate your personal action with the use of institutionalizing objects.

The basics of leadership

Leadership is based on the need to sustain one’s authority. The participation of others is a condition of leadership. A leader is such because s/he is followed. Therefore, in terms of the Unicist Logic, Participation is the active function of leadership and the energy conservation function is given by the Power a leader has to impose her/his authority. But this is a sort of paradox. The energy conservation function is given by the power the individual “does not use”. If the power is used it consumes energy and, in fact, a double amount of energy, because:

1) To impose something there is a need to exert power and consume energy.

2) When power is exerted, authority is being lost, because it means that the authority of the individual has not been accepted. And in this case, an additional amount of energy must be invested to reconstruct the value of the authoritative role.

Participation poses another paradoxical dilemma:

1) When the authority of the leader is extreme, for example a religious leader, the participation is not possible.

2) When the participation is extreme, there is no possibility to accept an authoritative role.

This solution is contraindicated for absolutist, subjectivist, fundamentalist and anarchic leaders.

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Diana Belohlavek
VP Unicist Knowledge Bank

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Pricing of the Unicist Object Driven Technologies

March 3, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business diagnostics / Business management / Business planning / Business strategy / Change management / Continuous improvement / fundamental analysis / Intelligent Systems / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution by The Unicist Research Institute

The Unicist Technologies integrated in the Unicist Standard are available worldwide to develop diagnoses, forecasts, strategies and organizational design through the Unicist Confederation.

The global expansion of the Unicist Confederation – developed through Alliances, Unicist Diagnostics Centers and Unicist Scientific Dissemination Centers – required the establishment of a pricing policy that includes the interests of the clients, the members of the Unicist Confederation and The Unicist Research Institute.

It has to be considered that The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,000 researches in complexity science applied to individual, institutional and social evolution.

This research was possible due to the participation in the research of hundreds of institutions and companies and thousands of individuals since its beginning in 1976.

From today on the prices in USD of the main proposals are:

-Diana Belohlavek`s Lecture on Unicist Thinking (7,000)
-Second Opinion Business Diagnoses (45,000 – 600,000)
-Second Opinion Diagnostics for Personal use (9,000)
-Unicist Market Laboratory (70,000 – 250,000)
-Unicist Organizational Laboratory (70,000 – 250,000)
-Unicist Strategic Diagnostics Program (9,000)
-Consultation with Peter Belohlavek (8,000)
-Unicist Strategy for Diagnosticians & Graduates (27,000)
-Unicist Think Tanks & R&D Labs (70,000 – 250,000)
-Unicist Talent Diagnoses & Development for High Potentials (1,000 per participant)
-Unicist Lectures (4,000 – 25,000)
-Unicist Corporate Universities (45,000 – 250,000)

In “Unicist Strategic Programs” and “Unicist Strategy for Diagnosticians & Graduates”, the benefit of the participant’s client has to be above 10 times the price paid for the program (based on a pre-diagnosis measured at the level of the maximal strategy).

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Benchmarking General Electric: The Nature of Innovation

February 23, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business management / Business scenarios / Business strategy / Change management / Diana Belohlavek / Innovation management / Intelligent Systems / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by The Unicist Research Institute

Managing the nature of innovation is basic when dealing with growth. This is something General Electric manages since the era of Thomas Edison.

The Unicist Standard in Innovation Management deals with the object driven technologies that are necessary to manage innovations.

You will find the information on the nature of innovation between the lines of Jeff Immelt’s lecture, CEO of G.E:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YOEwYAXH10

Next week we will be providing the ontology of innovation in order to help benchmark General Electric.

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Diana Belohlavek
VP Unicist Knowledge Bank

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,000 researches in complexity sciences applied to individual, institutional and social evolution.