This year The Unicist Research Institute has celebrated the 35th anniversary with the most fruitful research effort in their history having finished more than 600 researches including some of them than demanded far more than 20 years (consciousness, unified field of human adaptive systems, etc). They made 600 new aspects in the field of individual, institutional and social fields become possible.

The unicist approach is based on finding out what is possible in order to focus on it. The unicist approach deals with the “possible”, defined as a noun. It has to be considered that a possibility is a conditional situation while the “possible” is an assertive fact.

What is possible sustains success. Everything that is possible can be achieved. But this has a problem: while it provides the security of what can be done, it demands the freedom of assuming the responsibility for doing it.

The crises in the world happen because something was not “possible” but this situation was disregarded. Failures are always a consequence of someone trying to do something impossible or of something possible that was not done because people did not assume the responsibility.

That is why The Unicist Research Institute promotes:

2012, the year of the “Possible”

Executive Committee

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,200 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until December 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

The discovery of the unicist ontology of consciousness and the development of its ontogenetic map opened the possibilities to manage adaptive systems for everyone.

A Unicist Delphi Group has been developed to research why only 2% of the IT solutions have meaningful business architecture. The consensus achieved is that most of them are based on reverse engineering of existing solutions with operational improvements that are supposed to make the differentiation of the new solution. On the other hand, it has to be considered that most of the commercially successful IT solutions have an “exquisite” architecture.

Reverse engineering is extremely useful to be a starting point for any creation. But creation requires full awareness of the unified field of the solution that is being developed. That is why only the few true architects who are aware of the solution can design meaningful architecture.

The discovery of this ontology and its ontogenetic map is a breakthrough that makes the expansion of consciousness possible using the technologies of the real world going beyond the intuitive approach. It is a back to basic but with the inclusion of the real world technologies to achieve it.

It allows individuals to develop their level of consciousness expanding their possibilities to diagnose, build strategies and develop structural solutions in the real world.

This research demanded more than 35 years and included experiences with thousands of individuals, hundreds of organizations and more than 50 countries. These experiences dealt with the institutional and the collective unconscious and with cultural archetypes and included particularly the monitoring of the evolution of 22 individuals for more than 20 years.

Everyone can expand their consciousness if they have the responsibility to make things happen in the real world. They need to have the will to do so and the disposition to pay the prices to achieve it while empowering everyday actions.

Human intelligence expands through actions – this is well known and evident in the “stroke rehabilitation” processes. So does consciousness.

Consciousness expansion needs to be based on value adding actions that expand the added value of individuals while their conscious approach to reality evolves.

This is the pathway IT architects have to follow to design successful solutions.

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

Unicist expert systems are second opinion systems to ensure the quality of business decisions in the field of diagnoses, strategies and business architecture.

Decisions are truly made when an action has been produced and a value has been generated. Paradoxically, when decisions are just in the mind of the decider, they have not been made, they are just intentions. A movement is not an action if it didn’t generate an added value. Apparent actions that do not add value are movements not actions.

Actions are naturally based on fundamental knowledge and not on analytical processes. The analytical process is part of a diagnosing process but not part of a deciding activity.

The problem of fundamental knowledge is the risk of being fallacious, although it might have shown consistency with technical-analytical knowledge.

The most frequent fallacy is the lack of critical mass in the development of actions in order to be able to generate results.

The functionality of an expert system is its use to provide a second opinion diagnosis – to validate diagnoses, strategies and architecture -that integrates the necessary ontogenetic maps to define the possibility of developing successful actions.

The unicist expert system uses ontogenetic maps that allow evaluating the functions involved and their validity, considering the threshold of “energy” that is necessary for each process. Every function is a business object in itself that has to be consistent with the rules of the unified field of the business and the evolution laws.

The nature of adaptive systems in business demands the existence of catalysts, to accelerate processes and entropy inhibitors to maintain the focus of the energy that is being used. Catalysts and entropy inhibitors are necessary when a business process needs to generate additional value. Without them, the trend towards the actual value generation prevails.

Therefore the use of an expert system becomes extremely important to validate the functionality of the system as a unit and the catalysts and entropy inhibitors that are being used.

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

Business architecture can only exist if it is the final operational solution of a business modeling process. Business modeling processes, at an operational level, need to integrate the diagnosis, strategy and architecture of a business.

Designing a business model requires being aware of the business itself, its restricted context (the market) and the wide context (the environment).

We invite you to enter the world of business architecture in order to be able to transform the idea of the concept of a business into business processes. This implies the integration of diagnoses, strategies and architecture.

That is why the building of the business architecture demands a huge effort in order to have a reliable strategy based on an accurate diagnosis to build effective business processes that only require operational skills to be managed.

The ontogenetic map of the process implies starting with a hypothetical business architecture and ending with an operational business model.

The steps to be followed to define an operational business model are:

1.  Define the idea of the business.

A) Emulate the business architecture in a model.

B) Define the unified field of the business.

C) Define the business model to be achieved.

Develop a “Japanese park” with the participants to confirm the model.

2. Define the hypothetical solutions that will be considered.

3.  Define the fundamental diagnosis.

4.  Define the technical analytical diagnosis.

5.  Confirm the solutions that will be implemented.

Develop the Pilot Test I to confirm the diagnosis.

6.  Define the hypothetical growth that can be achieved.

7.  Define the maximal strategy to be developed in the business.

8.  Define the minimum strategy that can ensure the growth to be achieved.

9.  Confirm the growth to be achieved.

Develop the Pilot Test II to confirm the strategy to be used.

10.  Make the final pilot test of the business model.

Consider that this integration provides the hypothesis for the detailed business architecture to define the business processes to manage the operation.

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

Today better than yesterday is the natural pathway for continuous improvement in the business world. It generates no economic cost; its price is the necessary attitude.

But, if it is so simple, why is it so rare? Because to do things better than yesterday a person has to be aware of what s/he was doing.  Automatisms at work avoid awareness and hinder improvements.

Automatisms avoid having immediate real experiences. The learning process in fields where automatisms prevail, like habits, only occurs after multiple failures have driven a person to an extreme crisis.

A conscious approach to businesses suffices to do things today better than yesterday. Intuition, as an automatism, doesn’t suffice.

Therefore, businessmen and women, being their companies large or small, need to be aware of what they are doing in order to improve it tomorrow.

Consciousness expands based on the value adding actions of an individual and shrinks when an individual acts to appropriate other’s value. The human mind needs to create a “story” where the individual is the “hero”, building the necessary parallel reality that generates the contraction of consciousness.

If businesses are run to provide products or services for the true benefit of the client, consciousness expands and the process can be improved tomorrow. But if the true purpose is to obtain benefits from the client, consciousness shrinks and tomorrow the process will become worse.

Those who add value will succeed in the short or long run. Those who appropriate value will be condemned to become Sisyphus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Therefore, doing things  better than yesterday depends on our attitude. We strongly recommend that the introduction of improvements in businesses has to begin by adding value in order to obtain the counterpart.

This is very simple if you believe in what you are doing; if not, it is just impossible.

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

The architecture of a business is defined by its true vision and mission of a company. The vision and mission of a company can be explicit or implicit and can be for “true” use or for “external” use.

When the ontogenetic map of a vision and mission of a business has been described the basics of its positioning, growth possibilities and the path of its possible evolution have been defined. That is what business architecture is about.

The architecture unveils the true positioning of a business and needs to be considered as confidential information. That is why we can only publish the information of architecture of The Unicist Research Institute (TURI).

The purpose of TURI is to be a global leading research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. But this research requires productive applications in order to be valuable. That is why the active function of TURI is its business arm: the Unicist Confederation.

The energy conservation function is given by The Unicist Corporate University which allows people to learn the use of unicist technologies ensuring that the value of the researches has been apprehended.

But the business architecture of TURI needs to maintain the oneness considering that the “utility” is given by the research, the “aesthetics” is within the business arm while the “solidity” is provided by The Unicist Corporate University.

We hope that this real case of business architecture can be used as a conceptual benchmark.

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

Continuous Improvement requires a different approach to business than the one of operational activities.
The minimum strategy aims at assuring the quality of work processes by developing the necessary repairs and updates to make things work in a safe way. But the maximal strategy strives towards introducing the necessary innovations to increase the value provided to the market while diminishing the costs to produce it.

The implementation of Continuous Improvement as a business unit that needs to generate an adequate return of investment works as a catalyst to improve processes. It includes the participation of the whole organization but within a strategy that ensures the ROI and business expansion.

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

The ontology of consciousness to deal with personal development was discovered after 35 years of research at The Unicist Research Institute.

The research was led by Peter Belohlavek and the final confirmation process included participants in the United States, Germany and Argentina.

This knowledge allows helping people to expand their possibilities avoiding the esoteric, rationalistic and subjectivistic approaches. It also allows defining the limits of these possibilities.

We would like to acknowledge the Universität Heidelberg and the University of Minnesota for their empirical and physiologic researches in this field.

This establishes a new starting point to deal with human behavior. A book on this subject will be published in December 2011.

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

Having reliable knowledge is a precondition for decision making for business expansion. But this includes an apparent paradox. The knowledge of the ontogenetic map (fundamental knowledge) is the basis for growth, whilst most of the people consider that the problem should be approached with technical analysis.

Reliable knowledge is necessary when individuals are willing to ensure a minimum strategy or are exposed to uncertain or risky environments.
In every day activity only operational knowledge is required.

This ontogenetic map is a final synthesis of the use of fundamental and technical analysis in the world of economic, social and business behavior.

Fundamentals describe the ontology of a given reality considered as a unified field. Technical analysis describes the cause-effect relations of a reality considered as a systemic object.

When the context is uncertain the understanding of fundamentals is necessary. Fundamentals are defined by the concepts that regulate the evolution of a fact.

Validation processes naturally degrade into fallacies when they do not include falsification processes. Validation implies a non-destructive test and falsification is a destructive test measuring the accuracy and limits of a knowledge.

When a reliable knowledge is required to deal with maximal and minimum strategies, risks or uncertainty, the integration of technical and fundamental analysis is required, beginning with the fundamentals.

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

Steve Jobs passed away yesterday leaving behind a deed that is, and will be, multiplying worldwide.

He will probably be remembered as the co-founder of Apple which, from our standpoint, is unfair.

He is the person who introduced the user in the organization, giving true meaning to work. His search for transcendence, in the wide and not egotistic sense, allowed him to understand the needs of the community. He worked and organized the work to cover such needs.

See: http://unicist.net/engineering/aesthetics-is-the-core-of-steve-jobs-business-approach

Courage was, without doubt, his guide in everyday work. He had to face “Goliaths” being a “David” and also had to overcome the “yes but” and “no” that innovators have to deal with. The prices he had to pay were extremely high.

Apple was the vehicle for his innovations. It has to be considered that innovators without users have no added value. His creation allowed the integration of human beings with electronic devices.

He is the true creator of the “phenotype” of computers and adjacent devices, which are their interfaces. The “window” he opened will never close.

I would like to say “good bye” with two simple words:

Thank you…

Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.