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Conceptual Management
Unicist
Business Objects
Emulating the Organization of Nature The unicist logic based and object driven technologies were developed
to deal with the adaptive aspects of businesses and institutions of any
kind. The transfer of unicist object driven technologies to companies is
based on embodying such technologies in business objects / prototypers
to develop prototypes, which end up in solutions.
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Contents
Unicist Business Objects.................................................................. 5 Energy Saving and Quality Improvement ......................................... 6
Comparison of Unicist Objects with existing types of Objects ......... 7
Unicist Business Objects Building .................................................. 8
The Unicist Object Driven Organization ........................................... 8 Some considerations on Objects ........................................................ 8
The Functionality of Objects ........................................................... 11 The Unicist Ontology of Objects ..................................................... 12 About the Driving Business Objects................................................ 13
About the Inhibiting Business Objects ............................................ 13 About the Entropy Inhibiting Business Objects ..................................... 14
About the Catalyzing Business Objects ........................................... 15
Unicist Business Objects Design ...................................................... 18
The Unicist Standard for Business Objects Design .............................. 21
Classification of UBO according to their intrinsic characteristics ......... 21 Classification of objects based on their use ......................................... 22 Types of Business Objects ............................................................... 24
The Unicist Standard ..................................................................... 30
The Unicist Approach to Businesses ............................................... 31 The Unicist Standards ...................................................................... 31
Annex: The Unicist Approach to Complexity ................................. 33
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Nature is a complex adaptive system that is organized by objects.
The organs of the human body are an evident example of this organi-
zation. The unicist approach to business is based on the installation
of business objects to organize processes. These objects allow accel-
erating their functionality, improve their quality and save energy.
This type of organization requires following the Unicist Standard for
adaptive systems, in order to ensure the functionality.
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Unicist Business Objects ®
Unicist business objects (UBO) are encapsulated adaptive systems
that produce predefined results that can be inserted in work processes
to increase productivity and quality and to save energy.
The Unicist Research Institute has developed Business Objects that
allow emulating the organization of nature minimizing the energy
consumed to generate value.
The Object Driven Organization emulates the organization of nature
in institutions. The same way nature is organized by objects, every
complex adaptive system is integrated by interdependent objects that
make adaptiveness possible.
The human body is an example of this organization by objects. Be-
cause of their complexity, objects have, among other characteristics,
open boundaries which imply that any “observer” is part of the sys-
tem.
The use of business objects structures the timing and synchronicity
of business processes.
It also provides the necessary acceleration to achieve the needed crit-
ical mass and the required speed to adapt to the environment.
Business Objects are adaptive systems that generate added value and
save energy within the limits of their concept having a quality assur-
ance system and a methodology to sustain alternative solutions.
The Unicist Objects provided are adapted to the business, the market
and the scenario of a client and include patented and not patented
processes.
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Objects are productive adaptive units that have a concept, an added
value, the necessary quality assurance and a methodology to ensure
the minimum strategy. To imagine an object please consider an au-
tomatic pilot in an airplane. It can be considered a “paradigmatic”
object.
From a functional point of view there are different types of objects:
● Driving Objects
To drive processes
● Catalyzing Objects
To accelerate processes
● Entropy Inhibiting Objects
To inhibit the entropy of business processes
● Inhibiting Objects
To inhibit dysfunctional events in a business
● Gravitational Objects
To influence the results of processes
Energy Saving and Quality Improvement
Unicist Business Objects are proven solutions based on the use of the
unicist ontological algorithms included in the Unicist Standard that
can be installed in processes in order to save energy and increase
quality to produce results.
The energy saving in a normal business process is usually more than
30%. The investment in Business Objects is recovered in less than
one year.
There exists the possibility of making a Research Consortium to de-
velop Business Objects for a company.
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Comparison of Unicist Business Objects
with existing types of Objects 3.1
Aspects
Objects in
Information
Technology
Objects
in Nature
Unicist Business
Objects
Mindset to
Apprehend
Objects
Dualistic Logic,
Class Logic, Prop-
ositional Logic
Integrative Logic,
Fuzzy Logic, Pred-
icate Logic
Integrative Logic,
Fuzzy Logic, Predi-
cate Logic
Purpose Minimum Strategy Maximal &
Minimum Strategy
Maximal &
Minimum Strategy
Example Programming
Objects
The Organs of the
Human Body
Commercial Objects
Category Class Species (Role) Concept
Dependence Inheritance Inheritance Homologous Inheritance
Operation Method Adaptive Method Adaptive Method
Value
Generation
Event Action Action
Activation Message Nervous System Business Intelligence
Functionality Attributes Functionality Fundamentals
Essential
Characteristics
Model Genotype Ontogenetic Map
Design Encapsulation Phenotype Unified Field Diagram
Pluralism Polymorphism Polymorphism Polymorphism
Dynamic Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity
Influence Functional Critical Mass Critical Mass
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Unicist Business Objects Building
This information is for those who need to understand how business
objects work and opens the possibility of managing the technology to
build them.
The Unicist Object Driven Organization
A Unicist Object Driven Organization is a model that, according to
the predefined objectives, designs the necessary processes and uses
and reuses business objects to produce the expected results.
Unicist Ontology of Object Driven Organization in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
ObjectivesPurpose (*)
ProcessesMaximal StrategyActive function
ObjectsMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Object Driven
Organization
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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Some considerations on objects
Objects are productive units that have a concept, an added value, the
necessary quality assurance and a methodology to ensure the mini-
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mum strategy of their purpose. To imagine an object please consider
an automatic pilot in an airplane. It can be considered a “paradigmat-
ic” object.
We would like to make a clarification of the difference between ob-
jects and things.
Objects only exist within a process. When they are not part of a pro-
cess they are things.
An object is such because it produces an added value for someone in
the process. When it does not produce added value it is a thing.
Things can be such in some conditions and objects in others. The
definition of an “object” is functional to a value that needs to be
achieved.
For example, a car is an object if there is a driver, if not it is a thing.
But if it is a collection car it is an object for the owner and for those
who appreciate its value. For those who do not, it is just a thing.
In the world of abstract objects a rumor is an object if it achieves the
expected value. News is an object if it has a use for the one who re-
ceives it.
That is why it has to be clarified that the definition of an object de-
pends on the given functionality it has within a process. A stone
might be an object if it has a use, if not, it is just a thing.
That is why only people who have a sound knowledge on a process
can design the objects that are part of the process.
In order to reuse objects in other homologous processes it becomes
necessary to have an expert knowledge. Without it, no homologies
can be understood.
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PROCESSING
EXPANSION
SECURITY FREEDOM
INFLUENCING
CONTRACTION
QUALITY
ASSURANCEVALUE
GENERATION
TO CONTROL
TO PRODUCE
SUSTAINING
DRIVING
OBJECTS
ENTROPY
INHIBITING
OBJECTS
CATALYZING
OBJECTS
INHIBITING
OBJECTS
The Unicist Ontology of Objects’ FunctionalityOntogenetic Map in Unicist Standard Language
GRAVITATIONAL
OBJECTS
Maximal Strategy
Minimum Strategy
Catalyst / Inhibitor of
the Minimum Strategy
Entropy Inhibitor
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There are different types of objects according to their functionality:
● Driving Objects
To drive processes
● Catalyzing Objects
To accelerate processes
●Entropy Inhibiting Objects
To inhibit the entropy of business processes
● Inhibiting Objects
To inhibit dysfunctional events in a business
● Gravitational Objects
To influence the results of processes
Theses functionalities correspond to the roles the objects exert in
nature. The building of human adaptive systems requires the use of
objects in order to ensure the production of the required results.
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Paradoxical results are produced in human adaptive systems if the
objects do not have the required energy or fail in their objective and
are not substituted or replaced by human action.
Objects are elements that have independent functionalities but are
installed in processes to work in an interdependent way.
The driving function of an object is defined by the final purpose of
such object that is driven by its concept.
The entropy inhibiting function is defined by the energy conserva-
tion function of the minimum strategy of an object.
The inhibiting function is defined by the focus of the necessary ac-
tions of an object.
The catalyzing function of an object is defined by the energy con-
servation function of the restricted context of an object.
The gravitational function is defined by the wide context that con-
tains the object within a superior and wider unified field.
The functionality of objects
There are five business objects which are: the drivers, the entropy
inhibitors, the inhibitors, the catalysts and the gravitational objects.
The first three ones belong to the process of a system while the cata-
lysts are part of the restricted context and the gravitational objects
belong to the wide context of a system.
Objects can be designed integrating these three functions as part of
their functionality or they can exist as three different objects to pro-
vide the driving, inhibiting and entropy inhibiting functions in a pro-
cess.
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Unicist Ontology of Business Objects in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
Driving ObjectsPurpose (*)
Inhibiting Objects Maximal StrategyActive function
Entropy Inhibiting ObjectsMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Driving
Business Objects
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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Catalysts and gravitational objects are not part of the system. If one
integrates them into the system, these objects do not work as such
and destroy the system’s functionality.
The Unicist Ontology of Objects
Each type of object has a different functionality that will be synthe-
sized in the following pages through an introduction to its ontology:
• Driving Business Objects
• Inhibiting Business Objects
• Entropy Inhibiting Business Objects
• Catalyzing Business Objects
• Gravitational Business Objects
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About the Driving Business Objects
Unicist Ontology of Driving Business Objects in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
ConceptPurpose (*)
Added Value Maximal StrategyActive function
Quality Assurance to Add ValueMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Driving
Business Objects
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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The function of driving business objects is to achieve the concept
that underlies their creation.
To do so they need to generate added value and have a quality assur-
ance system that ensures the value they add.
The quality assurance system can be an automated system -in case of
systemic objects- or a human dependant control system -in case of
operational objects.
About the Inhibiting Business Objects
The purpose of Inhibiting Business Objects is to sustain the focus of
the concept that underlies the driving objects.
By establishing the focus, they need to inhibit any activity that is
beyond this focus.
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Unicist Ontology of Inhibiting Business Objects in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
FocusPurpose (*)
Commitment with Results Maximal StrategyActive function
Quality Assurance of the FocusMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Inhibiting
Business Objects
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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Although these objects are based on fostering a commitment with
results in order to fulfill their functionality, their core aspect is the
quality assurance of the focus which sustains their inhibiting activity.
About the Entropy Inhibiting Business Objects
Unicist Ontology of Entropy Inhibiting Business Objects in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
Need
SatisfactionPurpose (*)
Focus Maximal StrategyActive function
Quality Assurance of Need SatisfactionMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Entropy Inhibiting
Business Objects
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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Entropy inhibiting business objects seek to ensure that the need of a
process is satisfied.
Their active function is to ensure that the focus on the needs is main-
tained.
They provide the control function of objects and are complementary
with the driving objects in order to ensure that the solution of the
concept is being achieved.
About the Catalyzing Business Objects
Unicist Ontology of Catalyzing Business Objects in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
Influence
BuildingPurpose (*)
Timing Maximal StrategyActive function
Satisfaction of NeedsMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Catalyzing
Business Objects
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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Catalyzing business objects are elements of the restricted context of a
system that can be used to influence other objects to accelerate their
work. They are not part of the system they accelerate.
Catalyzing objects are energy conservation functions of a superior
level that influence the use of the energy of a system.
Their main characteristic is that they need to have the necessary syn-
chronicity, acceleration and speed to work when they are needed.
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An example of this a catalyst is the brand power when it is used in
selling processes.
They need to be designed with an intrinsic ambiguity in order to al-
low the participants to decide to accelerate. If they are not ambiguous
they do not work as catalysts and produce paradoxical results.
About the Gravitational Business Objects
Unicist Ontology of Gravitational Business Objects in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
Authoritative
ContextPurpose (*)
Fostering Freedom Maximal StrategyActive function
Provision of Security Minimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Gravitational
Business Objects
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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Gravitational Objects impose an authoritative context in order to fos-
ter freedom of individuals and provide a framework of security to
influence individuals’ actions.
They need to be based on subliminal design and an adequate level of
participation in order to ensure that leadership can be accepted. They
represent the wide context that influences the restricted context and
thus the system.
An example of a gravitational object is the use of Corporate Univer-
sities to provide upgrades to members of the market. But these Cor-
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porate Universities need to work at a higher academic level than the
one necessary to manage the processes and objects of a system.
They need to be separated from the catalysts and from the objects of
the system in order to work independently from them.
Other examples are the philanthropic activities of corporations.
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Unicist Business Objects Design
Unicist Ontological Business Process Modeling (UOBPM) requires
defining the processes that include the necessary business object that
work within the limits of the ontological algorithms that regulate an
activity.
Unicist Ontology of Business Objects Design in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
ProcessesPurpose (*)
Business Objects DesignMaximal StrategyActive function
OntologiesMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Business Objects
Design
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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A specific UOBPM has to happen within the limits of the meta-
model of the business.
The ontology of the business works as a gravitational force to sustain
the vision and mission of an activity.
The design of business objects requires, on the one hand, a construc-
tive process to define them and, on the other hand, a control process
to confirm the validity of the solution.
At the end there has to be a pilot test and a recycling process follow-
ing the XD-design method.
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FUNCTIONAL
CONCEPTS
CONCEPTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
VALIDATION ACTION
VALUE ADDING
PROCEDURE
SYSTEMIC
VALIDATION
QUALITY
ASSURANCE
SYSTEM
FUNDAMENTAL
KNOWLEDGE
DESIGNING
CONTROLLING
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UNICIST
OBJECT
Maximal Strategy
Minimum Strategy
EXPANSION
SECURITY FREEDOM
CONTRACTION
The design process includes the definition of the functional concepts,
the value adding procedures and the quality assurance system.
The control system includes the validation using the existent ontolog-
ical algorithms based on conceptual knowledge, the knowledge of
the fundamentals and the systemic knowledge of the activity.
The Unicist Ontological Algorithm
It can be defined in the following taxonomic steps:
1) Knowledge of the process
A) Definition of the necessary procedures
B) Definition of the Performance Control System
C) Confirmation of the results that have to be achieved
2) Definition of the functional concept of the object
3) Definition of the value adding procedure of the object
4) Definition of the Quality Assurance System
5) Confirmation of the purpose of the object
6) Definition of the essential concept of the activity
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7) Definition of the fundamentals that rule the activity
8) Validation using the systemic knowledge of the activity
9) Confirmation of the ontology of the activity
10) Pilot testing and recycling
PROCESSES
OBJECT DESIGN
ONTOLOGIES
OUTPUT
PROCEDURES
PERFORMANCE
CONTROL
PROCESSES
FUNCTIONAL
CONCEPTS
VALUE ADDING
PROCEDURE QUALITY ASSURANCE
SYSTEM
OBJECTS
DESIGN
CONCEPTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
FUNDAMENTAL
KNOWLEDGE
ONTOLOGIES
SYSTEMIC
KNOWLEDGE
CATALYST /
INHIBITOR
DRIVER /
INHIBITOR
MINIMUM
STRATEGY
MAXIMAL
STRATEGY
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The Unicist Standard for Business Objects Design
The Unicist Standard for business objects building defines the norms
that business objects have to fulfill to generate results.
Extreme design, the use of unicist modeling and the structure of the
ontology of objects allow building unicist business objects.
Unicist Ontology of Business Objects Building in Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
Unicist Business
ObjectsPurpose (*)
Extreme DesignMaximal StrategyActive function
Unicist Business ModelingMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Business Objects
Building
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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Unicist business objects (UBO) are encapsulated adaptive systems
that produce predefined results that can be inserted in work processes
to increase productivity and quality and to save energy.
Classification of UBO according to their intrinsic
characteristics
Operational Objects: These objects are designed to earn value.
Functional Objects: Their functionality is the integration and linking
of objects, tasks and processes.
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Systemic Objects: They have been designed to transform energy.
Cognitive Objects: They are ontological algorithms that are neces-
sary to build processes, tasks and objects.
Unicist Ontology of Unicist Business Objectsin Unicist Standard Language
Supplementation
Complementation
ResultsPurpose (*)
Adaptive AspectsMaximal StrategyActive function
Operation & Control AspectsMinimum Strategy
Energy conservation function
Adaptive System
Solution
(*) Unicist Thinking allows
emulating nature and makes
the integration of the two dualistic
approaches possible.
The numbers 0 – 1 – 2 – 3
represent the steps (rules)
of the Unicist Ontogenetic
Algorithm.
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Classification of objects based on their use
Drivers: they are objects that produce results within work processes.
Catalysts: they are objects that are designed to accelerate drivers,
tasks or processes.
Entropy inhibitors: Their role is to minimize the entropy of processes
and results.
Inhibitors: They are objects to inhibit anti-conceptual actions in pro-
cesses.
Gravitational objects: They are objects that generate an influential
context that promotes the need of the results provided by tasks, ob-
jects or processes.
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Objects do not substitute people’s responsibility, they provide a saf-
er, faster and energy saving solution to be installed in work process-
es.
That is why objects can only be installed in organizations where the
leaders assumed the responsibility for the results produced by the
processes they manage.
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Types of Business Objects
The Nature of Objects
Functional Objects
These objects define the basic struc-
ture of objects based on their final
purpose.
These objects are defined by their
functionality within specific process-
es and their context.
Behavioral
Objects
Commercial
Objects These objects define the behavior of
people and their capacity to adapt to
the environment.
These objects are designed to foster
the acceptance of an idea in the mind
of buyers.
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Semantic Objects
Semiotic Objects
These objects install a structured
knowledge in the mind in order to
establish a basic context.
These objects guide the actions of
individuals in order to establish a
functional pathway.
Institutionalization Objects
Strategy Building Objects
These objects sustain the perception
and acceptance of an institution and
its rules
These objects allow sustaining strate-
gic processes minimizing the energy
consumed to achieve goals.
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Business Architecture Objects
Institutional Roles / Objects
These objects sustain architectural
processes and minimize the cost of
business architecture building.
Institutional roles are in fact the ob-
jectification of institutions to manage
their functionality.
Cultural Roles / Objects
Personal Roles / Objects
Cultural roles work as objects in
their environment and increase the
adaptiveness of cultures.
Personal roles are the objectification
of their functionality in an environ-
ment.
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Systemic Objects
Functional Objects
These objects allow transforming
energy and generating added value
in a predictable way.
These objects integrate other objects
in order to make them work as a
systemic process.
Operational Objects
Cognitive Objects
These objects allow earning value
for a system based on a human con-
trol of their procedures.
These objects define the knowledge
that is stored in the mind, integrating
their added value and foundations.
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Dynamic Learning Objects
Quality Assurance Objects
These objects have been built to
establish an object driven pathway
that simplifies learning processes.
These objects allow building system-
ic objects by ensuring the quality of
their processes.
Leadership Roles / Objects
Negotiation Roles / Objects
These objects allow sustaining the
power of leadership processes with-
out exerting it.
These objects guide negotiation pro-
cesses and minimize the energy con-
sumed by the implicit conflicts.
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Image Building Objects
These objects sustain image building
and establish the stages of these pro-
cesses.
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The Unicist Standard ®
The Unicist Standard defines the structures and the unified fields that
have to be managed in an adaptive system in order to organize it and
achieve the results that have been defined as possible.
This allows managing the unified field of human adaptive systems in
a reasonable, understandable and provable way.
The energy saving produced by the strict use of the Unicist Standard
of a function exceeds 30% (experience data). The use of the Unicist
Standard is a condition for designing Strategies and Architectures.
This standard provides the rules to be considered to manage the dy-
namics of the adaptive aspects of businesses and to build the neces-
sary quality assurance processes to ensure the results to be produced.
The Unicist Research Institute researched the field of complex sys-
tems making the management of the unified field of human adaptive
systems possible.
All the structural solutions, business objects, technologies and
knowledge provided by The Unicist Research Institute are based on
the unicist ontological approach, follow the Unicist Standard and
generate significant energy saving effects.
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The Unicist Approach to Businesses
The Unicist Approach established a new starting point to deal with
the adaptive aspects of businesses to organize their expansion. It al-
lowed doing what was not possible before.
Nature, as a paradigmatic complex adaptive system, is organized by
objects. The Unicist Approach is based on emulating nature to man-
age businesses as adaptive systems.
At an operational level, this approach is materialized in the use of the
Object Driven Organization which employs Business Objects to ac-
celerate business processes and save energy.
These objects are designed based on the knowledge of the ontogenet-
ic maps of their functions and on the use of the Unicist Standard to
design business processes and objects.
Object driven marketing, object driven strategy, object driven man-
agement, object driven continuous improvement, object driven nego-
tiation and object driven leadership are paradigmatic examples of the
object driven organization.
The Unicist Standards
• Unicist Standard for Conceptual Design
• Unicist Standard for Business Strategy
• Unicist Standard for Adaptive System`s Pilot Testing
• Unicist Standard for Business Benchmarking
• Unicist Standard for Business Growth
• Unicist Standard for Market Growth
• Unicist Standard for Business Objects Building
• Unicist Standard for Human Adaptive Behavior
• Unicist Standard for Fundamental Business Diagnostics
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• Unicist Standard for Business Modeling
• Unicist Standard for Business Intelligence
• Unicist Standard for Business Architecture
• Unicist Standard for IT Architecture
• Unicist Standard for Marketing
• Unicist Standard for Virtual Collaboration
• Unicist Standard for Continuous Improvement
• Unicist Standard for Change Management
• Unicist Standard for Leadership
• Unicist Standard for Future Scenario Building
• Unicist Standard for the Ontological R&D of Adaptive Systems
• Unicist Standard Language
• Unicist Standard to deal with Learning Processes
• Unicist Standard to deal with Personal Evolution
• Unicist Standard to Research of Human Adaptive Systems
• The Unicist Standard for Critical Mass Building
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Annex
The Unicist Approach to Complexity
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Unicist Approach to Complexity
in Adaptive Systems
The unicist approach to adaptive (complex) systems The most primitive adaptive (complex) system is given by two elements that have a
biunivocal relation (loop). For example:
• The lack of credibility of an innovation inhibits its use and the absence of use
impedes credibility.
• The absence of production causes inappropriate distribution and dysfunctional
distribution causes a lack in productivity.
Until the appearance of the solution given by the unicist approach, there were four
palliatives:
• Intuition
• More or less subjective arbitrary models
• Fallacies to avoid the perception of complexity
• Ceteris paribus
Complexity is self-evident in the field of social, institutional and individual evolu-
tion. It can be said that evolution is a complex problem itself.
Complexity is implicit in the core of the business world. Those who can apprehend
it and influence the environment are successful. Those who cannot influence com-
plexity, fail. The unicist approach is necessary for those who need to manage com-
plex problem to transform them into simple solutions, easy to be implemented.
We think it is necessary to define complexity in the field of business.
It is necessary to be understood to develop and use adaptive systems:
When you have to add 1 + 1 the problem is simple; 1 + 1 = 2. There
is only one possible solution and all you have to do is follow a meth-
od. But the problem becomes complex if you reverse the equation (2
= ???) because you need to produce a result.
In this case there are infinite solutions and the problem is complex
because you have to find the equation that optimizes the process of
producing results. That is why using methods is simple but ensuring
results is complex.
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We define a complex system as an open system, which determines
the functionality of a unified field through the conjunction of objects
and/or subsystems.
A complex system has the following characteristics:
1) It is an open system, meaning that the energy flows to and
from the system itself.
2) The external limits of the unified field (its “globality”) behave
as the ones of a fuzzy set.
3) Functionality is determined by the “conjunction” of elements
that influence each other, generating “loops” of cause-effect
relations.
4) The “disjunction” does not exist in a complex system.
5) The sum of the results of the subsystems is not equal to the
result of the total complex system.
6) Relationships among subsystems are not linear; they respond
to the double dialectics laws (purpose-antithesis / purpose-
homeostasis).
7) Complex systems generate their own energy transformation
using their own energy and the energy from the environment.
8) Complex systems are composed of subsystems, which are al-
so composed of other subsystems, until reaching a descriptive
level that is functional to their purposes.
9) Complex systems cannot be observed. The observer is part of
the system.
10) Complex adaptive systems can only be measured in their re-
sults.
Emergence is not considered as a characteristic of a complex system
because it is also part of what we call simple or systemic systems.
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Some examples of complex systems can be found in the social, eco-
nomical, political and cultural aspects of reality as well as in manage-
ment, marketing, strategy (of countries, institutions and individuals),
learning processes, continuous improvement and interpersonal rela-
tions.
Human Complex / adaptive systems research design
Human Complex or adaptive systems need to be researched in their
unit. No artificial experiences are possible. As all the elements are
integrated with the conjunction “and”, the elimination of one of the
elements changes the purpose of the system. Artificial experiences or
simulations are dysfunctional to human complex systems research.
The final goal of every diagnosis is to influence upon the reality un-
der study. To do so the researcher needs to explain it, but the expla-
nation is only a comprehension framework to exert influence on the
environment under study. The research that merely tries to explain a
situation becomes an end in itself and therefore tends to be fallacious.
The “unified field” to study
All reality that operates as a complex system needs to be approached
as a unified field. The unified field is not susceptible to division into
variables. Division is only possible when dealing with a non-complex
system. A complex system can only be studied as a unit.
A very strict methodology, forecast and validation/falsification are
required to avoid falling into fallacies that will lead into erroneous
diagnoses.
The researcher needs to know the unified field to be studied directly
or through homology. If it is not understood then neither its ampli-
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tude nor its depth can be acknowledged. Both elements i.e. amplitude
and depth, tend to be known generically as amplitude.
The understanding of a culture when making a country diagnosis
calls for a depth that allows reaching the concept of the culture and
an amplitude that permits to encompass economic, social, political,
technological, religious, cultural and linguistic aspects.
To understand a global scenario implies, on the other hand, enlarging
the unified field to understand the relative functionality of several
cultures.
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Comparison of
the Approaches to Complexity Sciences
Aspect
Peter Belohlavek’s
approach to Complexity
Sciences (*)
Preexisting ap-
proaches: Bateson,
Förster, Lorenz,
Maturana, Morin,
Prigogine and others
Field of Study Complex adaptive systems Complex adaptive systems
Approach Pragmatic - Structural - Func-
tionalist
Empirical
Definition of the field
of study
A specific reality as a unified
field that includes the restricted
and wide contexts and the
emergence of the system
Based on the emergence
of the system
Possibility of external
observation
Inexistent Inexistent
Research method Unicist Ontological Research Systemic research
Boundaries of the system Open Open
Self-organization Concepts – analogous to strange
attractors
Strange Attractors /
undefined
Structure Double Dialectics Dynamics
Purpose - active function -
energy conservation function
Variables
Relationship between
the elements
Following complementation
and supplementation laws
Undefined
Evolution / Involution Based on the evolution / invo-
lution laws of the ontogenetic
intelligence of nature
Undefined
Processes Object driven processes Undefined
Certainty Dealing with possibilities and
probabilities
Dealing with probabili-
ties
Demonstration Real applications Real applications
Emulation in mind Double dialectical thinking
(using ontointelligence)
Complex thought
Emergence Results Results
Chaos Inexistent Existent
Influence on the system Based on actions and driving,
inhibiting, entropy inhibiting, cata-
lyzing and gravitational objects.
Based on actions
Validation Destructive and non-destructive
tests (real applications)
Systemic research vali-
dation methods
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