The unicist ontology for organizational design allowed defining the structure of the organizational process to be used when a business starts or a big change is being implemented.

By just implementing the first step of the taxonomy of Unicist Organizational Design you will know how big the change is.

Taxonomy of the Organizational Process

1)  Japanese Park – Pilot test: The first step to define the limits of the environment is letting things work in a natural way. This demonstrates the functionality of the context and allows defining the possibilities of what needs to be designed. When the values shown by the environment are extremely far away from what is needed the organizational process cannot be implemented.
2)  The benefits of the parts involved in a working process need to be clarified. Both the organizational benefit and the personal benefits need to be approached in a “hypothetical” way. This step establishes the expectations of the parts involved.
3)  The responsibilities of the parts need to be defined within the limits of the capacity of the individuals to assume them. When it is necessary to develop maximal strategies one must consider the capacity of managing risks, uncertainty and the frustrations of the participants. The design has to be based on the capacity of individuals to assume the responsibility.
4)  The methodology of the work defines the logic that needs to be used. The methodology needs to be known before individuals are able to generate benefits for the organization and themselves. Methodologies need to be adequate to the level of the participants.
5)  Confirming the benefits implies that the individuals know what benefits need to be produced for the organization and for them. The Minimum Strategy can only be designed after this is transparent.
6)  Approach the possibility of minimizing costs to ensure the minimum strategy. The objective of this step is to confirm that the costs are within the limits of a minimum strategy.
7)  Define the use value of the organization in its unit without considering the different subsystems or individuals that integrate it. It has to be defined what it is that the organization needs to achieve and how this objective will be fulfilled.
8)  Define the methods to be used in the organization and how the performance management of the use of the methods will be developed. Methods need to be defined including the quality assurance and / or quality control system.
9)  Confirm the cost of the solution that is being designed. This implies redefining alternatives that allow cost reductions that do not modify the structure of the organization. It necessarily drives to redefining the previously defined stages seeking for cost reductions.
10)  Pilot test making. Both destructive and non-destructive pilot tests need to be used. The first test has to be the destructive test in order to be aware of the limits of the validity of the solution.

Japanese Park – The first step

By just observing how the system is spontaneously managed you will know the distance between what happens today and the necessary functionality. This distance defines the size of the change to be implemented.

If the distance is small, just continue with the steps of the organizational design. If the distance is big, a valid change management technology is needed.

If a big change technology is needed but disregarded, the possibility of change is inhibited.

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The nature of hunting businesses requires a freedom oriented approach while the farming business requires a security oriented approach.

While the hunter seeks for new boundaries to reach a maximal strategy, the farmer guarantees the production of the minimum strategy for survival.

The natural organization is just a homeostasis integrating the needs defined by the type of business and the type of a company.

The operational type of a company is defined by the integration of enterprising and entrepreneurial attitudes and the type of business depends on the integration of hunting and farming components.

It is necessary to define the trade-off between entrepreneurial and enterprising attitudes consistent with the farming or hunting nature of a business.

Farming and Hunting roles are integrated within a company but should not be mixed. Asking farmers to hunt is as ineffective as asking hunters to develop farming activities.
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Conceptual design requires making an ontological reverse engineering process. “Copy and paste” is the solution for cloning but not for designing. The Unicist Standard is necessary to develop this conceptual engineering approach.

The Use of the Unicist Standard Language is required to make an accurate conceptual design in engineering.

“Dealing with Human Adaptive Systems necessarily is driven by complexity. Adaptive systems are complex in themselves but dealing with human adaptive systems adds a new complex component which is the ambiguity implicit in human behavior.

The existence of conscious and non-conscious aspects of human behavior produces naturally the existence of an ambiguous environment.

The purpose of adaptive system management is to influence human adaptive systems using the object driven technologies included in the Unicist Standard.

The development of the Unicist Standard Language was necessary to provide a context in order to understand, communicate and influence the management of human adaptive systems.”

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In the short or the long run,
living beings and their deeds
are consistent with their nature…

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The scorpion stung the frog
although they both would be dying in the river.
It was in its nature…

(From the fable “The Scorpion and the Frog”)

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A unicist ontological design of a given reality requires the knowledge of the involved concepts. Therefore, the discovery of conceptual structures precedes the design activity.

It took many years to research the conceptual structures of most of the objects related to human activity. Now, with the available conceptual knowledge bank, the design of complex solutions has been made possible without needing to research while designing.

The major problems of human designs are their incompatibility with the nature of the objects being designed.

When designing solutions, there is usually insufficient time to research the concepts involved. To solve this problem, the operational function of the object is usually considered as representative of its concept. This solution is very practical but insufficient when designing differentiated objects.

The use of the Unicist XD methodology sustains the simplicity and reliability of design processes. The design process can be accelerated by the use of the Unicist XD. It was developed to approach complexity and the solution of problems in an uncertain or risky environment.

Unicist XD is essentially analogous to Extreme Programming. It can be considered as one of the existing concept-driven design methodologies.

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Nokia is a world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries.

Mobile technology is evolving extremely fast. Understanding how Nokia is managing this fast evolution in product development will give you a benchmark to understand the new paradigms.

We strongly recommend watching the interview with Mary McDowell – Nokia’s Chief Development Officer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoUGLCYnJc

The question we would like to propose is how a market can be managed when the evolution of the technology is extremely fast.

In one week you will find a response to the question on this blog.

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Unicist Ontological Reverse Engineering is the technology that transforms the concept of “Green thinking” into actual conceptual engineering.

This allows extreme energy savings in the fields of adaptive systems. When solutions for adaptive systems are being developed the use of the Unicist Standard for conceptual design makes huge energy savings possible.

The use of unicist objects as energy saving functions of processes makes the difference in conceptual engineering design.

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

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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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The archetype of China is a unique case of a culture that has the capacity to grow based on the internal consistency of its model, a model that became complementary to the globalization process.

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China’s Structure

China is a culture based on the consistency of the social and individual efforts and the capacity of accepting trade-offs to achieve the goals of the country.

The Chinese model has to be understood in itself without comparing it with other countries. It has multiple economic models working simultaneously. It is neither a communist nor a capitalist model. It uses multiple unique solutions which imply permanent trade-offs between the different models to achieve its growth.

The Communist Party can be considered as homologous to the ancient nobility in Europe but representing the interests of China as a country and the needs of its population.

Entering the Communist Party needs to be earned because within the party there has to be an ideological consistency to allow a democratic behavior. The Communist Party is the “Establishment” of China.

Confucius’ Concept

Confucianism is a functional philosophy for a culture that needs to grow in a context of an extremely large country with a large population. Order is necessary to sustain consistency.

Minorities in China have to behave within the limits of the explicit and implicit Chinese model. Censorship and self-censorship are a need to avoid that the culture loses its consistency. But although censorship becomes necessary in this context, it is also the implicit weakness of the Chinese archetype.

Cultures evolve based on their implicit weaknesses. Therefore, a generational change can be expected in this field depending on the new trade-offs the culture will make.

A Shielded Culture

China has been, is and will be a shielded archetype, protecting its culture and beliefs in order to ensure its consistency and allowing making the necessary trade-offs to grow.

This shield was represented by the Chinese Wall in the past, and now it is represented by the multiple regulations that establish the framework of the country.

Maximal Strategy

The maximal strategy of China is driven by the working capacity of the culture and the catalyst for the minimum strategy is their cultural shield that ensures the consistency of its actions. The cultural shield works as a protection from foreign influence and internal distortions.

Minimum Strategy

The minimum strategy is driven by the individual working capacity of its population. The entropy inhibitor, to ensure the achievement of growth, is the ideological shield that ensures the focus of the efforts on the objectives that are being achieved.

The personal capacity of making trade-offs is installed in the population and makes individuals extremely focused achievers.

To apprehend the Chinese archetype it is necessary to understand Doers, avoiding ideological, religious or social comparisons. China was, is and will be unique. China doesn’t base its expansion on exporting culture, but on exporting products.

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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:

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