Points of Contexture: November 2007

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Richard Marrs is the founder and president of Altamont Consulting Group LLC. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, the group works with organizations, senior executives and their teams creating and executing Strategy, Alliances, Corporate Development, and Innovation. " Altamont is dedicated to improving our client's productivity, innovation, and performance by helping them Collaborate. Innovate. Transform."

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November 2007

November 14, 2007

Inutition's Role in Decision Making-Redux

At KM World 2007 last week, after my presentation with Steve Barth, I was asked about an apparent conflict in the way intuitive sensing, sense making and decision making works compared to decision making using business intelligence (BI) systems. Actually they don't conflict at all, unless we make or let them - they all work together!

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Definitions

con·tex·ture
(kən-tĕks'chər, kŏn'tĕks'-) noun: 1. The act of weaving or assembling parts into a whole. 2. An arrangement of interconnected parts; a structure. 3. A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure.

Current Reading

William Gibson: Distrust That Particular Flavor

May I Suggest:

Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Amory Lovins: Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
Robert Porter Lynch: Business Alliances Guide: The Hidden Competitive Weapon
Cynthia M. Grabo: Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning
William Gibson: Distrust That Particular Flavor
Gerd Gigerenzer: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gerald Nadler: Breakthrough Thinking: The Seven Principles of Creative Problem Solving
James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds
David McCullough: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
William Gibson: Zero History
Jason Fried: Rework
(****)
Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
(*****)
Judi N. Sandrock: The Art of Managing Knowledge: A Practitioner's Guide
This book provides a road map to either start a KM program from scratch, or use well defined processes and tools to conduct a diagnostic on an existing program – fine tuning for our current times of uncertainty. (****)
Gerald Harris: The Art of Quantum Planning: Lessons from Quantum Physics for Breakthrough Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership
(*****)
Joshua Cooper Ramo: The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
(*****)
Fareed Zakaria: The Post-American World
(*****)
L. E. Modesitt: The Eternity Artifact
Often fiction introduces, explains and develops concepts better than non-fiction - Look at chapter 1 and the "expectations of instantaneous response"! (*****)
Gerd Gigerenzer: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
The work behind Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, and a good and very readable companion to The User Illusion (****)
Peter A. Gloor: Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing
(****)

Exceptional Sites

Steve Barth's Reflexions
Simply the most thought provoking site on the web
Arik Johnson's ReconG2 Journal
Unique views on the CI process
Dave Snowden's Cognitive Edge
Cutting edge thinking, research and applications for dealing with complex problems and opportunties
Peter Cochrane
Professor Peter Cochrane (Co-Founder of ConceptLabs)
Mitch Betts' CorpIntel
Great site for future trends and CI
Jon Husband's Wirearchy
"...the transformation of hierarchies in the wired world..."

Points of Contexture

A conversation on seeing holistically in a complex world, sensing the whole as well as the parts: from Richard Marrs