A Logical Approach to Business
The unicist logical approach to businesses and their processes allowed managing their root causes. This logic made businesses reasonable, understandable, predictable and manageable. This logic made the development of the Unicist Artificial Intelligence possible.
The power of the unicist logic lies in its simplicity. It only requires reasoning in terms of maximal strategies and minimum strategies and of complementation and supplementation. It implies moving from a dualistic approach towards a functionalist approach.
It is based on the discovery of the functionality of the intelligence of nature that drove to the development of the unicist logic, which allows managing the functionality, dynamics and evolution of adaptive systems with open boundaries.
The unicist logic allows managing the root causes and developing binary actions that manage maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to ensure results. It simplifies business processes by building business objects and catalysts to ensure and accelerate the generation of results. It is the approach needed to manage adaptability in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
The “Roots” of Unicist Root Cause Management
Introduction
The use of recurring palliatives in problem solving, when the root causes of problems are unknown, demonstrated to be a fallacious shortcut, frequently used for conjunctural solution building, that produces paradoxical results.
Unicist Root Cause Management introduced an approach for problem solving, facing the management of root causes and avoiding the use of shortcuts used as palliatives, to develop structural solutions.
From Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Russell and others, in the philosophical field, to the empirical approach of Dr. Ishikawa in the industrial field, the problem of causality was faced trying to find the validity of the causality of things, on the one hand, and introducing the fundamentals of processes on the other hand.
Unicist Root Cause Management introduced an approach to develop structural solutions for problems in adaptive environments. It drives to research the fundamentals of efficacy and efficiency and find a solution that integrates the problems, their restricted context and their wide context.
This approach showed that structural problem solving is the most energy saving action because it hinders the reappearance of problems. It requires apprehending the root causes of problems, working within the boundaries established by the limit causes and ends with a structural solution based on the functionality of the fundamentals of the problem and an operational solution that ensures results.
The Basics
The discovery of the intelligence that underlies nature and the structure of concepts that regulate the evolution of living beings and drive human actions opened the possibility of managing root causes.
The consequence of these discoveries is that the root causes of problems are defined by the dysfunctionality of the fundamentals that integrate the concepts that underlie the entity or action that cannot fulfill its purpose.
This approach became possible due to the development of the unicist ontology that defines the nature of things by emulating the structure of the triadic intelligence that underlies nature (purpose, active and entropic principle, energy conservation principle). Thus, the discovery of the root causes became possible due to the knowledge of the unicist ontology of the entities that are being managed.
This unicist approach to causality has a different purpose than those of the philosophical approaches of Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Russell and others. These approaches tried to find the validity of the causality of things, while the unicist approach is fully focused on understanding causality, including the validity of knowledge, to solve problems and to build solutions.
Dr. Ishikawa, who developed the root cause management for industrial processes, introduced the use of the fundamentals of processes to identify and discover root causes.
The predecessors of the unicist approach, both at a philosophical and at an empirical level, need to be known to understand the functionality of the unicist root cause management that has been installed by the Unicist Theory.
People who do not understand the significance of root causes and the possibility to achieve them cannot develop structural solutions. Their approach can be intuitive or intuitive and rational.
It all begins by understanding their functionality and ends by measuring the standards to confirm the necessary threshold of the fundamentals to achieve results.
The Unicist Ontology of Problem Causality
The unicist approach to problem solving was developed to deal with complex adaptive systems such as social, economic and business processes.
On the one hand, the unicist management of causality in complex adaptive systems is based on the inexistence of both univocal cause-effect relationships and the exclusive disjunctions “OR” among their elements, which are substituted by biunivocal relationships and the conjunction “AND” that integrates their elements.
On the other hand, these complex adaptive entities are not integrated by variables, which are based on univocal relationships, but by objects, which are autonomous adaptive systems that assume a role/function in these systems.
Complexity science was developed to explain, manage and predict adaptive systems and environments. It allowed managing the causality of adaptive systems, which have open boundaries to sustain their adaptability.
The Unicist Management of Causality
The unicist management of causality is based on the unicist ontology of the complex adaptive systems that describes their nature and defines the concepts that regulate their evolution.
A problem exists when a functionality, that has been defined as possible to be achieved, cannot be fulfilled.
The unicist approach to problem solving defines three types of causes that are integrated in the concept of problem causality.
- Triggering causes: that define the operational causes that generate a problem.
- Necessary causes: that define the root causes of the problem.
- The limit causes: that define the boundaries of what is possible to be achieved.
Different Levels of Solutions
The unicist approach to problem solving defines four levels of solutions that can be achieved according to the level of knowledge of the problems.
It has to be considered that people who need to avoid risks cannot deal with problems’ causality and substitute the knowledge of problems with pre-concepts that allow them to avoid facing the risks of developing solutions.
The different levels of solutions that have been defined are:
- Repairs
- Palliatives
- Systemic Solutions
- Adaptive Solutions
Repair
The natural response of people when an urgent problem appears is to repair it, based on the negative consequences that need to be avoided. This is a short-term energy saving action to face the solution of problems.
If the root-problem is not being addressed, the problem will reappear when the root cause acts again.
Palliatives
The natural response when people do not have the knowledge to solve specific problems is the use of palliatives to mitigate the consequences of such problems. This is a short-term energy saving actions when there is a lack of knowledge to solve problems.
The problem will continue to exist mitigated by the palliatives that have been installed.
Systemic Solutions
The development of systemic solutions is the necessary approach when the problems deal with the efficiency of the processes. In this case, it solves the root causes of the problem, but if the lack of efficiency is produced by dysfunctional efficacy, it will reappear due to the entropy of the solution.
This is an energy consuming action that naturally drives towards finding the root causes that includes both the problems with efficacy and efficiency.
Adaptive Solutions
This is the approach to develop structural solutions for problems. It drives to research the fundamentals of efficacy and efficiency and find a solution that integrates the problems, their restricted context and their wide context.
It is the most energy saving action because it hinders the reappearance of problems. It requires working within the boundaries established by the limit causes and ends with a structural solution based on the functionality of the fundamentals of the problem and an operational solution that ensures operational results.
What Became Possible that was not Possible Before?
The unicist logic allowed accessing the root causes of problems in adaptive environments. It gave access to manage the functionality of the concepts and fundamentals that define these root causes making possible what was not possible before:
- The definition of what is possible to be achieved in adaptive environments
The unicist evolutionary approach requires defining first what is possible to be achieved before defining what one wants to achieve. This avoids defining fallacious objectives. - Research of the root-causes of problems in adaptive environments
The root-causes of problems in adaptive processes are defined by the dysfunctionality of the concepts and fundamentals of the functions involved. This allows optimizing and structuring adaptive processes. - Management of the fundamentals of business functions
Business functions are necessarily adaptive to satisfy the needs of the environment. The management of their fundamentals allows ensuring their adaptiveness. - Development of maximal and minimum strategy actions
The unicist strategy emulates the intelligence of nature by developing maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to ensure results. - Development of unicist binary actions to ensure results
The need of maximal and minimum strategy actions requires developing sets of binary actions that influence the environment by fitting into preexisting concepts. - The forecast of social, organizational and individual behavior
The knowledge of the structure of the concepts of business functions allows managing their functionality, dynamics and evolution based on the laws of evolution provided by the unicist evolutionary approach. - The design and development of social and business objects
The management of adaptive environments requires installing objects that drive processes and ensure their functionality and evolution. - Organization of adaptive systems
The knowledge of the structure of the concepts of adaptive systems and environments allows defining and organizing the dynamics of their functionality. - The design, building and installation of business catalysts
Biological catalysts are homologous to social and business catalysts. The unicist logic allowed defining of the structure of the catalysts of biological processes and develop business process catalysts. - Future Scenario Buiding
The management of the laws of evolution allowed developing a future research model that is based on finding the unicist ontological structures of a scenario in the past, and using the data of the present in order to infer the future.
