“If the map doesn’t agree with the ground the map is wrong”
Gordon Livingston – Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Surtil has as mission to help individuals, teams, companies and organizations to make clever and innovative decisions,
making good use of a set of methodologies, tools and decision intelligence.
Surmounting
The Information Lens.
“we’ve moved from the age of enlightenment to the age of entanglement where sense-making aided by imagination is now more critical than ever.“
John Seely Brown
Information uses & needs,
e.g. across supply chains and ecosystems:
Transparency, Product Passport,
Sustainability, Fair Trade
Circular Economy
Stakeholder Economy
The Information Lens
Cultural and Economic Traditions,
Operational Excellence, KPI’s
Contractual Specifications and Quality Control,
Flow of Goods/Money — Flow of Data/Value
Trust and Fear
Methods and Tools
Variety of Creative techniques,
Innovation Games, Design Thinking Tools,
Story Telling , Brain Writing
Stakeholders Representation and Involvement
Safe Information Sharing
It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said:
the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever,
but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand,
“Who are we?”
Erwin Schrödinger – Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time
About Walter Stiers:
- Information Architect
(Systems, IT, Applications, Solutions, Enterprise, Ecosystems) - Scientific Foundation
(Geosciences, Ecosystems, CAS, Sense-making, Neuropsychology, … ) - Arts – Music
- Design Thinking Facilitator
- Decision Science
Walter [at] Surtil.com
My blog covers articles, publications, reflections and stories on the evolving landscape of decision science, decision intelligence, AI, Informational Lens, and more.
Distributed Adaptive Control of volition and agency
“The architecture of Responsible Autonomy in biological and artificial systems: the Distributed Adaptive Control of volition and agency” This paper proposes the Distributed Adaptive Control theory of volition and agency (DACva), which parses biological and artificial free will into six capacities that close the agency gap between a reflex and an act: – active decoupling,…
Beautiful Particulars
“We embodied beings are out in the world where the wetness of our bodies in a sudden storm is not a symbol,” writes David Weinberger. “Our embodiment is this intrinsic, direct openness to the world. That is exactly what AI lacks.” “Why AI and Consciousness May Never Meet” “Beautiful ParticularsHow AI’s Attention to the Smallest…
Six Capacities of Responsible Autonomy
“The six capacities of Responsible Autonomy and their evolutionary drivers.” The rapid integration of agentic AI is intensifying disputes about artificial autonomy, widening an agency schism between normative frameworks that presuppose agency and a scientific ontology that denies it. This paper proposes a revisionary naturalization: free will designates the control interface that embodied agents evolved…
