Continuous improvement

Unicist Contingency Rooms

October 4, 2016 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Functional Design tagged Contingency Rooms / Continuous improvement / Organizational Learning / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Evolutionary Approach by Diego Belohlavek

Unicist Contingency Rooms are organizational units that transform urgent problems into structural solutions. These units are basically organized as teams led by a person who is responsible for the Contingency Room.

When they begin their teamwork, the leadership includes the participation of a coordinator, who assumes the responsibility for doing what is needed to find the solutions for the problem that needs to be solved, an ombudsman to represent the needs of the client and a fallacy shooter who ensures that the group manages valid knowledge.

Their final purpose is to solve an urgent problem. Their maximal strategy is to develop the structural solutions while the minimum strategy is to solve the urgent problems.

The double dialectical actions that need to be developed at a contingency room begin by finding the necessary causes of problems in order to develop a structural solution while the second step is to find the triggering causes that generated the urgent problems in order to solve them.

It has to be considered that when a structural solution is found, the problem ceases to exist. Therefore, contingency rooms generate significant added value in their organizations because they ensure the concept of “today better than yesterday” measured in terms of results.

These contingency rooms use a complete set of resources to manage these solutions:

Conceptual Design Technology – To build the unified fields of the solutions and the layout of their architecture.
Continuous Improvement – Which includes the possibility of installing innovations to upgrade or renew processes.
Quality Assurance – Which requires introducing automated decisions to ensure the effectiveness of the processes.
Problem Solving & Diagnostics Methods – To provide a framework that simplifies the building of structural solutions.
Unicist Fishbone – To transform the conceptual design of a process into a manageable improvement process.
Unicist Project Manager – To design solutions for complex structural problems.
Unicist Library – To have a Knowledge Bank with the information of the concepts of business functions.
Avant Garde Groups – To build participative solutions for work processes using the knowledge and experience of the members of an organization.
Business Objects building Method – To build the necessary business objects to be inserted in the processes and integrated with roles and the necessary technologies in order to drive, catalyze or inhibit the entropy of processes.

Unicist contingency rooms are a tool for organizational learning and improvement. The organizations that use this approach transform crises into opportunities and problems into solutions.

This requires having an internal “Corporate University”, working as a solution factory, that provides the conceptual framework and the knowledge base for these activities together with the quality assurance for the solutions.

The main problem of contingency rooms is that they require using all the knowledge that is necessary and the main benefit is that it produces monetary results in the short and long run.

Diego Belohlavek

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The Unicist Fishbone Method to Find Root Causes

March 26, 2015 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Process Management tagged Business Problem Solving / Continuous improvement / Problem Solving Methodology / Root Causes / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Business Architecture / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Corporate University / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Fishbone by Diego Belohlavek

The Unicist Fishbone Method (UFM) is based on the original Fishbone developed by Kaoru Ishikawa. Conceptually, what Ishikawa developed was a method to manage the fundamentals of industrial processes.

The Ishikawa method was developed to allow people, who participated in the work processes, to develop their improvements.

Both the original Ishikawa method and the unicist fishbone method require that people have real experience in the field that is being analyzed.

The UFM was developed using the fundamentals of the operational concept of a business function and developing a fishbone approach in order to find the root causes that drive the functionality.

For example, we can consider the fundamentals of a project design process to find the root causes of the problems that allow improving such process.

The fundamentals to be considered are: the value generation architecture, the conceptual design of the system, the conceptual design of the objects included in the system, the objects architecture, the quality assurance and the risk management.

These fundamentals need to be dimensioned in measurable entities. This implies that, although fundamentals work as fuzzy sets, their functional level needs to be dimensioned in order to define their influence on the functionality of a process.

Then they are organized as a fishbone diagram to allow the participants of a group to define the triggering and the root causes that need to be considered to improve processes.

The Unicist Fishbone Method includes the methodology to be used to find the root causes of the problems that allow improving processes.

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Diego Belohlavek

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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.

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Unicist Business Objects changed Business Management

April 25, 2012 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Logical Approach tagged Continuous improvement / Object Driven Management / Object Driven Organization / Peopleware / The Unicist Research Institute / Unicist Business Object / Unicist Confederation / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy by The Unicist Research Institute

The design of business processes, before the unicist approach was developed, was based on operational research tools that did not include the fundamentals of processes. Therefore they were extremely human attitude dependant.

The unicist approach to business processes introduced fundamental analysis to define the nature of processes and the use of objects emulating the organization of nature. Object Driven Organization established a new starting point in business process design.

“Unicist Business Objects are adaptive systems that are designed to produce a predefined result in a process. By definition they deal with the adaptive aspects of businesses. They are unnecessary in administrative systems.

Not everyone can design an object, but everyone that recognizes its functionality within a process can use it.

The autopilot of an airplane can be activated without knowing how it was built but it is necessary to know how it works and the limits of its functionality.

There are five business objects which are: the drivers, the entropy inhibitors, the inhibitors, the catalysts and the gravitational objects.

The first three ones belong to the process of a system while the catalysts are part of the restricted context and the gravitational objects belong to the wide context of a system.

Objects can be designed integrating these three functions as part of their functionality or they can exist as three different objects to provide the driving, inhibiting and entropy inhibiting functions in a process.

Catalysts and gravitational objects are not part of the system. If one integrates them into the system, these objects do not work as such and destroy the system’s functionality.

The use of business objects requires individuals who understand the business processes in order to use the objects and replace them when their functionality has been exceeded.”

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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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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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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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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

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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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Benchmarking Unilever: Unicist Object Driven Leadership

March 12, 2010 in Unicist Cobots / Unicist Confederation tagged Business management / Business strategy / Conceptual design / Continuous improvement / Diana Belohlavek / Intelligent Systems / Unicist Evolutionary Approach / Unicist Strategy / Unicist Theory of Evolution by The Unicist Research Institute

Unilever is a world leader that manages leadership based on an institutional approach. The nature of leadership defines how organizations integrate hardware, software and peopleware.

The Unicist Standard in leadership deals with Object Driven Leadership that allows leading without needing to exert power but in extreme chaotic situations.

The key is integrating the authority of the leader with an adequate participation within a context of power.

But the question here is: Which are the fundamentals of leadership?

You can find the information on the nature of leadership presented by Unilever’s Global Head of HR, Sandy Ogg, who reflects on the recent changes and directions at Unilever and the role of HR and Leadership: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMcHnabCNXo

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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)
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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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