Population Cognitive Style Distribution
One Size Does Not Fit All...
While understanding Cognitive Style would be beneficial to everyone, each organization should determine the areas of the organization where it would be most beneficial to begin implementation
Depending on the business model and industry, it may be particularly more important to begin in the areas that impact competitiveness and future directions; such as in a Blue Ocean Strategy implementation
This is why we call it a 'Framework' approach. We'll help you determine how the application of the knowledge and understanding both tactically and strategically would best fit in your organization current state
'Hawthorne Effect'
However, this positive outcome will not likely be sustainable of itself unless the intervention provides substance and measureable results - integrated and internalized reasons for sustained change
Fuzzy animals, varied color imagery, group hugs, positive 'niceness' coaching, and innumerable platitudes - all are easily received in a controlled 'safe' activity. Bottom Line - how can people apply it afterward and will any of it be retained?
You need to get a return on your investment. Something more concrete. Make sure the intervention you get has measurable, predictive, and prescriptive content and outcomes.
Let us help you design and implement your custom Framework of application and ongoing operation....
Your Cognitive Environment
Blue Ocean Strategies
Similar to team augmentation, we can supply moderate to higher innovators to take your teams through the BOS inquiry, ideation, and strategy development phases
As many different disciplines, lines of business, and expertise sets can be involved in a BOS intervention, we can supply different individuals simultaneously or matching the different phases as required
Enterprise Consulting and System Based Cost Savings
Our team of consultants have specific expertise in fields which may correspond to your targeted needs. We will bring a focus from not only a cognitive 'higher innovator' viewpoint and perspective, but with substantial expertise in the field of interest also. We can discuss which of our consultants would be a fit for your requirements.
Additionally, we bring specific depth in cost reduction in the utilization of specialized and highly versatile information technology solutions / tools which have yielded significant impact and savings to our clients.
These savings normally occur under situations where:
- A mainframe based system will not easily, timely, or cost tolerantly provide the required functionality, data, or analytics that the business requires
- A COTS package (ERP, MRP, etc. ) will not easily, timely, or cost tolerantly provide the required functionality, data, or analytics for the business
- For the above or related circumstances, the client IT organization or COTS provider cannot provide bandwidth to achieve time constrained needs
- For relatively short lived requirements not conducive to a capital project, the systems, as above, or their resident information and data, are required to ultimately provide extraordinary functionality
- Situations where dissimilar systems are required to coexist during standardization projects (merger, acquisition, etc.)
- For situations where dreamed functionality will yield significant savings but needs to be substantiated through a functional 'proof of concept'
- Situations where current adaptations of spreadsheets, access databases, or similar 'makeshift' functionality requires cost effective substitution
Fundamentals
Understanding Cognitive Style
Integrating Cognitive Style understanding is fundamental to preparing groups or teams to take advantage of the power regardless of the ultimate plan. We can do this formally or informally
- Leadership Teams - Be it the leader by himself, or a group of leaders, participants come to understand the environment and the Framework to decide where the greater priorities are in the organization
- Targeted Teams - Take a team through the learning process to support a specific objective or initiative and simultaneously begin to understand what a Cognitive Environment is and how it is implemented
- Adhoc Teams - It has shown to be very effective and informative to take different groups/teams through the high level understanding of Cognitive Style without individually going through the instruments. The response and interest can then drive a more targeted intervention.
Team Augmentation
- Statistically speaking, trying to find a senior level higher innovator in your targeted field can be like finding a needle in a haystack - Use one of ours
- Entrepreneur, you may be interested in working directly with a higher innovator to see how it works
- As an organization builds their expertise in Cognitive Style and in implementing a cognitive environment, it helps to utilize a targeted innovator as a coach / mentor
- External Catalyst - A 'Devils Advocate' type process can allow desirable degrees of freedom and insulation for internal resources; particularly during significant change
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Paradigm Maintenance
Intra-Paradigm Innovation
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Paradigm Shift
Extra-Paradigm Innovation
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