Seeking Development Partners for creating
smartphone apps in these areas: MindSights Question-It Because
you are only as good as the questions you ask.
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Seeking Development Partners for
creating smartphone apps in these areas: Automated Consultants “We know quite well that cognitive tools can readily improve people’s
thinking …”- Buckminster Fuller.
1.
Co-brand
MindSights Apps (top) Co-branding is the
customization of the following MindSights’ apps with the integration of the
co-branders proprietary knowledge and tools. This approach can add a unique product
to the co-branders product and service offerings.
3. Tacit
Knowledge Capture Apps (top) An organization’s success
is based on how effectively it uses its intellectual property. As much as 75% of any organization’s
intelligence (intellectual property) resides as tacit knowledge (informal undocumented information) in
workers’ minds. One of the highest
priorities now is in growing and nurturing a knowledge-sharing culture and
encouraging and fostering relationships among knowledge workers. As Peter Drucker said: “Knowledge is a key asset, if not the key asset, of most
organizations. - Peter Drucker Call us to find out how
our unique Knowledge capture methodology can quickly turn your organization’s
“tacit” knowledge into smartphone applications that everyone can benefit from
using. 4. Co-brand Thinklets
– Thinking Emulation Grid (top) At the heart of
facilitated thinking technology and Automated Consultant apps is the
following Thinking Emulation Grid™.
This grid organizes thinking components into a smoothly coordinated
and integrated system that works by guiding thinkers along specific Thinking
Processes and Thinking Tasks to reach Thinking Points. It is at these
thinking points where thinklets are applied as if a human consultant or expert
were working directly with an individual or team. Help us grow these tools. Thinking Emulation Grid™.
Smartphone
application development strategy: (top) Facilitated Thinking Technology
can be characterized like having an Assembly line for your mind. It is a process
that improves knowledge-worker thinking
productivity in much the same way the invention of the assembly line
improved manual-worker labor
productivity. With a just-in-time approach, Facilitated
Thinking Technology delivers within a precise thought process the right
questions to ask, the correct thinking tools to use, and the proper thinking
methods to enhance personal or team thinking performance. Facilitated Thinking Technology works because
people rarely can bring to mind all the right mental tools and questions to
ask at the moment of need. Instead of
relying on human memory, these apps take a different approach. Their goal is
to provide cognitive tools, called thinklets,
which function as if the human consultant, expert, or professor were working
right with you and providing intellectual guidance to help you or team find
your own best ideas. Note: Thinklets
can be viewed as “Tools for the mind” that activate thinking patterns that
lead the mind down different pathways for developing new thoughts, ideas, and
solutions. In its purest sense, a thinklet can be the one right question to
ask. The following is an
analogy of an automobile assembly line process compared to a problem solving
process. Both follow a sequence of tasks (mental
tasks), both use tools (manual vs. cognitive “thinklets”) and both use raw
materials (physical vs. data/information).
Note:
Facilitated Thinking Environment Technology is Not AI (Artificial
Intelligence) Facilitated thinking technology is not a
substitute for human thinking, and is actually just the opposite of
Artificial Intelligence. The purpose of AI is to automate human thinking in
ways that lead to deterministic answers.
This works well for routine (scripted) thinking tasks. Facilitated thinking technology
uses questions to enhance natural human intelligence by taking the mind out
of scripted thinking patterns and leading to new associations, ideas and
innovations. |
Seeking Development Partners for
creating smartphone apps in these areas: edu Education “Those who know how to think become their own teachers.” Mahatma Gandhi
These
apps are like having mentor teachers available on-demand. Here are some ways
they can help:
Student
performance impacts from using question/thinking-oriented
smartphone apps ·
As student thinking effectiveness
improves … student learning improves. ·
As student learning improves … student
learning outcomes improve. ·
As student learning outcomes improve …
student personal and work life performance improves. Potential
uses/benefits of apps:
3.
Curriculum apps (Back) Thinking
Body of Knowledge apps Current
educational practices focus on teaching students critical thinking
skills. As important as
critical thinking is … its primary
purpose is to promote “learning.” While this is obviously important in the
workplace, it is only a small portion of the thinking skills needed to be a
successful knowledge workers. For example:
The smartphone’s Thinking
Emulation Grid can serve as a basis to answer questions like: A comprehensive
“Thinking” Body of Knowledge needs to be developed for education.
Teach
thinking as a subject apps Smartphone apps can be
used to teach thinking as a separate subject to help students acquire these
common traits of exceptional thinkers: 1.
Exceptional Thinkers ask the right questions. 2.
Exceptional Thinkers use the correct thinking process. Thinking
skills assessment apps The Thinking Emulation
Grids provides a “thinking” Body of Knowledge that could become a rubric app to
assess questing abilities. For example: An exemplary student would
be able to answer this question: “What
questions would you ask or what cognitive tools would you use to find out if
the situation you are dealing with is either a: Problem or an Issue or an
Opportunity?”
Education Handbook Synopsis (Back)
The Purpose of Education: From a
workforce development perspective. While
education has many purposes ranging from developing the whole child
academically, intellectually, socially, and physically … this handbook
focuses on; “How to better prepare High School and College students for a
radically changing and globally competitive workplace?” The
Education Issue: A radically changing workplace. Today, Education needs to
prepare students for:
The
Education Need: A workforce of change-adept thinkers. In today’s modern
workplace businesses need workers who are inquisitive THINKERS. In fact to
remain globally competitive, America must have highly skilled knowledge
workers. This means educating students to become change-adept workers who “Think”
their way through constant workplace change. To do this American education
needs to find ways to overcome these three major issues. Issue
#1: Current educational practices do
not promote the type of thinking needed by today’s workforce. . The
type of thinking students learn in school is different than the type of
thinking used by today’s knowledge workers. Issue #2: Move teaching “thinking” to
the forefront of education. Current
education practices and assessment are content and “answer-oriented”
learning. Education needs to focus
more on thinking and question-oriented Issue #3: Learning & Forgetting, a major
limitation of education While
education is more important than ever, a major weakness still remains: The
average person does not remember much of what they have been taught. The Education Solution: Facilitated Thinking Smartphone application Automated smartphone mentor teacher apps need to be developed that guide
students thinking, in real-time. These apps function like having a mentor
teacher personally present in the classroom. Download
Education Handbook PDF – click here |
Seeking Development Partners for
creating smartphone apps in these areas: Training & Publishing Don’t just READ-IT …
USE-IT … on-demand and in real-time.
Training
& Publishing Smartphone Apps: 1.
Smartbook Publication Apps 2. Trainer-in-a-phone" apps: Trainbox What
some of the data are about today’s training.
A
solution is to let us help you transform your Training courses, Training
material, Webinars, and Self paced on line courses into smartphone apps that
people “use” on-the-job. 3.
Support Apps (Job Aids, Helpdesk): Process-embedded task work
can also benefit from smartphone apps. Since we just can’t remember
everything, Job Aids and Helpdesk apps can empower workers with cognitive
tools to significantly improve on-the-job performance. Some customization options
are:
Training & Publishing
Smartphone Strategy (Back) What’s
the trend in Training? More than ever, success
depends on a high quality training. Yet, most training today continues to
mostly “push” knowledge and information at students with the hope something
will stick in memory. But in an era of constant change, push learning has
weakness like: Learning unimportant information that will never be used or
Learning important information that may be forgotten by the time it needs to
be used. What’s needed is a pull
model of learning where the student decides what they need to learn at the
moment of learning. The model strives to continually expand the choices
available while at the same time helping students find the right cognitive
tools and learning resources that are most relevant to the situation they are
entering. What’s
the trend in Publishing? Dedicated eReaders like
Kindle and Nook appear already close to extinction. They are being replaced
by multipurpose iPad type devices. So what comes next? The next major change in
publishing will come when voice recognition is perfected. When this happens
civilization will have crossed another important threshold in
technology. We believe with voice
technology that future books will:
Note: This is not that far
in the future. The
convergence of Training and Publishing with Smartphones Workers
today are required to adapt to ever changing systems and procedures with
knowledge that is often fleeting because it changed since the last time it
was used. What is now more important that acquiring knowledge and information
via training or publications … is the application of knowledge to help
workers carry out their job tasks with greater effectiveness? As Roger
Schank, Director of the Institute of Learning Sciences at Northwestern
University puts it, “What you know is trivial. The real issue is what do you
know how to do?” In this short statement,
Schank accurately summarizes one of the greatest challenges faced by most
organizations today—what do our workers really know how to do? We believe that expert
knowledge from training material and books can be turned into “smartbooks”
(smartphone apps) the workers will be able to query on-demand to assist them
in developing and maintaining their job-related competencies. |
Seeking
Development Partners for creating smartphone apps in these areas: Innovation Infrastructure “If Knowledge workers
don't make a commitment to support and practice innovative thinking, they
will be left behind by a world becoming much more dependent on innovation”. - former P&G CEO A.G. Lafley
Turn yourself from an ordinary
employee … into an innovator employee. The idea that everyone in an organization
can be an innovator is a radical departure from how things used to be. Now,
whether you like it or not, innovation is coming to your organization, and
you might as well get ahead of the curve instead of playing catch-up. Or,
as Procter
and Gamble’s CEO A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan warn in their
book, The Game Changer, “If
Knowledge workers don't make a commitment to support and practice innovation,
they will be left behind by a world becoming much more innovative.” Personal
Innovation software application Today we know
that front-line knowledge workers with their unique and invaluable
perspectives can, with proper guidance, create brilliant innovations. The
Personal Innovation software application
guides you to find operational innovations that you can implement yourself in
the following areas: Operational
excellence Operational excellence is
a never-ending effort for improvement in your job. It is based on the Kaizen
principle that states everything can be improved. It uses a mindset that
looks at your present job as being done in the “worst possible way.” Note:
Toyota employees use this approach to generate over one million ideas every
year! ·
Incremental
productivity innovations: Continually improve efficiency. ·
Cost
reduction innovation: Eliminate work that is no longer
needed. ·
Product
& service extensions: Add
more quality with only minimal additional cost. Customer
service excellence Get in tune with your
customers through exceptional customer service. Value your customer comments
and complaints as a source of innovation. The more difficult the problem, the
better your chances for finding breakthrough innovations. Ask your customer
questions and listen carefully. Read between the lines, because customers may
not always be able to explain everything. Determine what is missing and what
it will take to satisfy your customer or client. Personal
performance excellence Traditionally we have been
told that the way to improve personal performance is to concentrate on
improving our weaknesses. The
assumption is that the easy stuff will take care of itself. Sadly, by using
your time to fix your weaknesses, it’s likely the best you will ever become
is mediocre. The fact is the easiest
way to attain higher levels of achievement is to make better use of your
natural talents, called signature strengths. When you use
your “core” strengths, you will be doing what you do best. So look to
re-invent your job with your signature
strengths. The synergy of discovery teams leads
to powerful innovations. Real innovation comes from
one thing … hard work. It comes from curious people looking for problems and
studying the world in search of ideas. Innovation is more and more about people working together. Collaborative
Team Innovation software application This application
facilitates teams to quickly
experiment with existing technologies and create new innovations in the
following areas, at minimal cost. It uses Open Innovation and Self-organizing
Team approaches to do it.
Open
Innovation For many companies,
innovation remains an internal and proprietary activity, conducted largely
from knowledge inside the organization. Many organizations are realizing that
they can no longer afford to rely entirely on their own knowledge, but
instead must find ways to benefit from sharing ideas and knowledge with
outside entities. Beyond being just another business fad,
open innovation creates new sources of ideas and solutions with the potential
of influencing every aspect of your business. Self-organizing
teams The best and fastest way to benefit from open innovation is by developing
self organizing teams. Team members collaborate directly with each other,
rather than through traditional structures and hierarchies. They come
together with a shared vision and goals, because they are intrinsically
motivated to do so. The following types of self-organizing teams produce
more comprehensive innovations in less time and with lower costs.
·
Business
partner teams: We often underestimate the value of our
various business partners, and in particular the value of our suppliers. When
the market gets tight, your suppliers may struggle more than you. Typically
when you help them succeed, you are helping yourself. ·
Applied technology teams: Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking
new innovations and economic value. Amazing innovations are derived by
combining the capabilities of existing technologies into new ways of doing
business. “Big Picture” innovation … more
important than ever! Today’s
organizations are complex systems, but few professionals are trained or have the experience necessary to
deal with a wide-angle view of the whole business. The Organization
Innovation application overcomes ingrained business practices and guides the
development of “Big Picture”
innovations in the following ways: 1.
Business process innovations: Re-design business
processes to reduce costs and add customer value. An organization is not
just made up of a collection of people, but also of processes … the ways of
conducting business. Sometimes these processes are well conceived, up to
date, and carefully managed. But too often, many have evolved into bad processes. And bad processes can
turn good workers into bad performers.
So instead of spending
time fixing workers, who are not
broken, you should spend time fixing organizational processes that are broken. 2. Disruptive “discontinuous, radical”
innovations: Are new technologies that supersede
established business products and services. A disruptive innovation is
a new technology that has the potential to significantly transform the
demands and needs of existing mainstream markets. The internet is an example.
3. Sustainable futures innovations: Are innovations that balance nature’s resources with nature's
ability to meet demand. See description several sections below. Innovation Handbook synopsis (top)
Just as efficiency and quality
have been systemized … it’s time to systemize innovation. Not long ago, the typical
organizational innovation process might have been considered “lucky.” It was an individual creative genius
shouting Eureka … and a corporate
innovation hero jumping over internal hurdles to bring new products and
services to market. Innovation leaders realize that there must be a shift
from lucky innovation to a predictable innovation that is a matter of
strategy and habit. Full Spectrum Innovation
does this by focusing on developing an infrastructure that includes:
·
Incremental
Productivity Innovations ·
Cost
Reduction Innovations ·
Products
& Services Extensions Innovations ·
Applied
Technology Innovations ·
Next
Generation Products & Services Innovations ·
Disruptive
(Discontinuous & Radical) Innovations ·
Business
Model and Process Innovations ·
Sustainable
Futures Innovations |
Seeking Development Partners for
creating smartphone apps in these areas: Conscious Spiritual Thinking Learn from the past … plan for the future … But LIVE in the
present.
Conscious Spiritual
Thinking App (Back) A strong spiritual
foundation then makes it possible for us to build strong relationships with
our family, our community, the Earth, and the Divine. A strong spiritual
foundation means becoming self-confident thinkers who live in the “present”
and deal with the world “as it is.” Being in the present gives us a different
level of awareness and frees us to take conscious actions rather than making
emotional responses. Note: The following is the
main menu from the desktop app. It is the basis for developing the smartphone
app. To request a trial version of the desktop app send email to dj@nthdegreesoft.com. Community Building & Transformation App (Back) Community
building and transformation projects are at best challenging and historically
have had dubious success. The reason is good hearted people have been using
the traditional problem solving approach to community building. The focus was
to go into “needy and deficient” neighborhoods and fix (solve) problems. As well
intentioned as this approach was and still remains … it actually created a
bigger problem. It made most neighborhoods dependent on outside help. Many
people came to believe they were incapable of taking charge of their lives.
And even believe they lacked the ability to acquire skills and talents to be
successful on their own. A conscious
spiritual thinking approach to community building starts within the community and gets people:
This connectedness
approach leads to better utilizing local and neighborhood resources in ways
that multiply their power and effectiveness. Everyone within the community
takes ownership and pride in rebuilding their own neighborhood. Conscious
Spiritual Thinking Handbook (Back)
In simple
terms, life can be described as a sequence of problems that each individual
must solve for themselves. And a problem, for most people, is virtually
anything that “changes” in life that requires the individual to change … when
they don’t want to change. In the past when change
(problems) occurred slowly, society and individuals had time to easily adapt.
However, we have now entered an era of hyper change (or hyper problems) and
are finding it more difficult to adapt. Relying on our traditional problem
solving and scientific thinking processes are no longer sufficient to deal
with our modern world. So … it’s time for Conscious Spiritual Thinking. What is Conscious Spiritual Thinking? Conscious Spiritual
Thinking is the ability to think for one's self and reliably make responsible
decisions about one's life, behavior, and actions with full knowledge of the
consequences of those decisions on others and the world at large. Conscious Spiritual
Thinking addresses our innate sense
of connectedness that urges building relationships and growing through
collaborative behavior. Its purpose is to guide actions and behavior
through a conscious connectedness to ourselves, others and the Divine God. It
focuses on developing the following three spiritual thinking abilities. These
abilities provide an “Us” way of thinking that leads to
win/win, and/both, and us/together actions. It contrasts to “I” thinking that
typically leads to win/lose, either/or, and us-versus-them actions. Three
Conscious Spiritual Thinking Abilities ·
Awareness:
Connecting to our inner wisdom. ·
Oneness:
Connecting to the wisdom of others. ·
Wholeness:
Connecting to the wisdom of the Devine God. Click here to download a pdf
copy of the handbook. |
Seeking Development Partners for
creating smartphone apps in these areas:
What is Facilitated Thinking Technology. The evolution of “tools”
has been one way of marking humankind’s progress. Facilitated Thinking
Technology is simply a natural evolution from 20th century manual
tools to 21st century cognitive tools. In the 20th
century, for example, the invention of the assembly line and factory
automation tools increased Manual worker “labor” productivity … fifty fold.
Note: More than 125 types of pliers were invented over the past 100 years to
do different manual tasks. The development of
Facilitated Thinking Technology can be characterized as an assembly line for
the mind that uses cognitive tools, called thinklets, which improve individual
and team “thinking” productivity. Facilitation Thinking Technology is built
on the same principle that underlies the selection of any manual tool: choose one appropriate for the “thinking”
task at hand. The technology functions
like a skilled consultant, educator or trusted friend who delivers timely
advice by asking just the right questions, recommending the right cognitive
tools to use, and offering successful methods and insights. This results in
amplifying natural human thinking to arrive at higher levels of thought. For a description on how
it works download this white paper: Facilitated Thinking Technology: A fifty-fold increase
in thinking productivity. Why it’s needed now. We all think, so why do we need to think better? The answer is: as
change accelerates … so does the need for higher order thinking. Our capacity
to adapt to constant change becomes preeminent. Here is the logic flow that shows today’s need
for Facilitated Thinking Technology.
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Seeking Development Partners for
creating smartphone apps in these areas: MindSights Meeting
Mentor (Smartphone app
“listens” and responds to meeting conversation.) BETA TESTERS WANTED What
If … smartphone apps could function like skilled human consultants and
be used to significantly improve real-time thinking effectiveness? The
answer is … it can … and it will in these ways:
For more information
about becoming a Beta Tester send email to: dj@nthdegreesoft.com. |
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