“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.
Nexus – or ???
A nexus is a connection, link, or central point where multiple parts, ideas, or things come together. Following fragment by Connor Leahy from The Nexus Instituut entitled “Dropping birth rates and technology” might be inspiring about our future.
Embracing wicked problems thinking
“Embracing wicked problems thinking will advance conservation science and practice” Highlights Provides a definition for understanding wicked problems in conservation science Demonstrate how wicked problems thinking can inform research through case studies Provide a framework with recommendations to support conservation scientists Wicked problems thinking has been used to describe problems related to food security and…
Can artificial systems become conscious?
“Can artificial systems become conscious?—Recursive embodied closure as an integrative framework” Recent advances in artificial intelligence, connectomics, and computational neuroscience increasingly raise the question of whether artificial systems—or even pure computer simulations—could become conscious. Contemporary theories emphasize embodiment, predictive processing, homeostatic regulation, and continuous interaction between cognition, body, and environment rather than isolated computation. We…
