“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.
Contagion and escalation of rule violations
“Contagion and escalation of rule violations” In many real-world settings, rule violations are not simply binary but vary in severity: individuals may deviate slightly or substantially (e.g. driving at 75 vs. 100 mph in a 70-mph zone). While existing theoretical and experimental approaches have treated rule-following as a graded behaviour, less is known about how…
Data by Design
“Data by Design Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science” – Available Open Access How the history of data visualization holds the key to designing a more just future. From maps of colonial empires to charts of national trade, data visualization has long been used to consolidate knowledge and power. But…
Beyond attention
“Beyond attention: performance pressure shifts information-processing complexity” Why does performance pressure sometimes cause choking but sometimes elicit exceptional performance? We propose that pressure shifts the complexity of information-processing rules that guide action. Performance improves when shifts move processing toward task-matched complexity and deteriorates when they promote maladaptive simplification, overcomplexification, or the use of rules that…
