“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.
a psychology of real-life decision-making
“Toward a psychology of real-life decision-making” Understanding human decision-making processes in everyday life is a central, yet rarely addressed, challenge in psychology. Either real-life complexity is reduced by isolating specific aspects of decision-making in highly constrained experimental settings, yielding insights into specific cognitive mechanisms under idealized conditions, or decision-making is studied in real-life contexts, using…
Cognitive maps – a medium for thought
“Cognitive maps as a medium for thought” Cognitive maps are essential for navigation, but to what extent are they involved in thinking more broadly? In this opinion article, we examine whether cognitive maps constitute a genuine vehicle for thought and how they relate to the notion of a language of thought. Integrating work from philosophy,…
Dissent enhances the credibility …
“Dissent enhances the credibility of groups of Bayesian conformist decision-makers ” When making a decision, individuals use their private information to evaluate the available options. In a group, they can also learn from other group members’ choices, which partially reveal their own private information. Bayesian estimation provides tools for modelling decisions that optimally balance these two…
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