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If the map doesn’t agree with the ground the map is wrong

Gordon LivingstonToo 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.

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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.

How capital becomes a death cult.

How capital becomes a death cult.Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want.It’s the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the…

Brain rhythms – predictive processing perspective

“Brain rhythms of depression: A predictive processing perspective” Findings from electroencephalography studies converge on the notion that depression involves disrupted updating of beliefs, wherein positive and corrective information carries too little weight to revise rigid expectations about the self and the world. Across a range of neural signals, the brains of individuals with depression register…

Brabant eindelijk belicht

VRT-journalist Luc Pauwels brengt een naar eigen zeggen ‘schandelijk onderbelicht stuk’ van de Vlaamse geschiedschrijving opnieuw tot leven. Pauwels beschrijft hoe één illustere Brabantse dynastie uit de brokstukken van het uiteengevallen Karolingische rijk een middeleeuws staatje smeedt dat ruim de helft van het huidige Vlaanderen en het zuiden van Nederland beslaat: het aloude hertogdom Brabant.…