CHANGE - it's your ONLY option
We have ONE choice. Whether it is your life, your relationship, your job, your community, your country or your world - CHANGE is the constant!
It makes sense to have a process that takes full advantage of change rather than avoiding it. It makes sense to build on prior values and to minimize the negative impact to sustainable systems.
It also makes sense that the process engages everyone (all stakeholders) in both the identification of better options and the benefits from those new options.
It's No SECRET
You Have To Change
Much effort is wasted in trying to coerce people to participate in causes to which they do not (yet) relate. Everyone will, however, participate in activity that serves their individual needs and represents their own values. That requires only an invitation, and enough structure to mediate the interaction, capture the benefits, and dispense them, equitably. The recent shift from online content access and publication to social networking is one small step.
INDIVIDUALS, participating, in an open-market information exchange, on a global basis, can cooperate to solve the WORLD'S PROBLEMS. That is a simplistic re-statement of the goal of the Semantic WEB 3.0. For that result to realistically occur:
- Access must be FORMALIZED so that all global citizens can equitably participate - without repressive constraints.
- The content must be NORMALIZED to reflect a common basis of discussion - of understanding - and of benefit.
- Interaction must be MEDIATED to ensure all viewpoints are considered in route to a mutually beneficial consensus.
Over the past few years a structured approach has been created as a means to:
- Enable, Encourage, Engage, Manage, Improve, and Disperse
that global conversation.
ASK4(TM) has been designed to take advantage of some of the key processes that have been used for centuries to get things done. It can now be deployed online, globally. It establishes cooperative control of local data intersections on the global information highway - and supports its ASK4(TM) practitioners in:
- MERGING New Interaction
- MEDIATING New Consensus
- MAPPING New Destinies.
As a change management and process improvement model, ASK4(TM) is consistent with prior theories and current approaches that allow us to move forward and create sustainable results. It engages the concepts of social networking, business analysis, process improvement, and project management - to name a few. It dismantles the "bastions of reluctance" and creates "unintended consensus" that aligns stake-holders along a common critical path. (I jokingly call it "[SIC] SIGMA" [sounds the same] - much simpler).
ASK4(TM) offers a means to engage each participant in something worthwhile to them and makes conversations more productive. ASK4(TM) simplifies the approach so that users can enjoy better results by adopting the ASK4(TM) process as:
a way of LISTENING - a way of THINKING
a way of ASSESSING - a way of CHOOSING
a way of ACTING - in a cooperative model.
The syndicated ASK4(TM) model enables what is truly useful to be consistently obtained by those who need it, cooperatively.
And, the ASK4(TM) model has its own SECRET
(- that you can only get what you "ask for...").
FOOTNOTE:
"Perhaps it is not the job of governments to do what individuals, communities, and free-market citizens can do for themselves. This could be very disruptive to existing 'kingdoms'. That 'constructive disruption' could be a good thing, globally. The grid is in place, technology exists, all humanity beckons. We'll see." GBigger 9/2007
What's your suggestion?...
Here's the question: - WHAT WOULD YOU DO with an idea that:
- is simple enough to engage everyone in global thinking
- captures a useful knowledgebase of issues/answers
- is remembered in four easy questions (6 total)
- changes the world, one interaction at a time
- is scalable from paper & pencil to internet
- only requires that "you ask for it", and...
- take action based on the new insight.
Each insight forms a new baseline...
another leverage point for new progress.
I've already received a few ideas:
Offer it to Google
Create it as a WIKI
Merge it with GELC
Find thought leaders to promote it
Form a social network cooperative
Find investors and launch a new company
I look forward to your comments...or connections to a world of opportunity, for good.
What are your thoughts?
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luckycharms
Hi George! Posted April 03, 2007 |
Trust the universe and your network to deliver many choices; then choose and never look back.
Posted March 21, 2007
Great ideas and a unique tool. Go George!
Posted March 15, 2007
Hi George,
As a thought leader who believes that we should all follow our passion and "be the source of what we would like in the world" I would take your concept and promote it for collaborative exchanges globally. The paradigm for collaborating and sharing is already in motion. Just do it.
Posted March 14, 2007
Semantic Web
Content in Context - of the user, the community, the world.
The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.
It derives from W3C director Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.
At its core, the semantic web comprises a set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and a variety of enabling technologies. Some elements of the semantic web are expressed as prospective future possibilities that are yet to be implemented or realized. Other elements of the semantic web are expressed in formal specifications. Some of these include Resource Description Framework (RDF), a variety of data interchange formats (e.g. RDF/XML, N3, Turtle, N-Triples), and notations such as RDF Schema (RDFS) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), all of which are intended to provide a formal description of concepts, terms, and relationships within a given knowledge domain.
TOC (Constraint Management)
ASSumptions Are The Weak Link
Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall management philosophy. Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt introduced the Theory of constraints in his seminal 1984 book titled The Goal. It is based on the application of scientific principles and logic reasoning to guide human-based organizations. The publicity and leadership behind these ideas has been dominated by Dr. Goldratt through a series of books, seminars and workshops.
TOC is geared to help organizations continually achieve their goals.
TOC is based on a set of basic principles (axioms), a few simple processes (Strategic Questions, Focusing Steps, Buy-In processes, Effect-Cause-Effect), logic tools (The Thinking Processes or TP) and through the logical derivation of these some applications to specific fields (Operations, Finance, Distribution, Project Management, People Management, Strategy, Sales and Marketing).
According to TOC, every organization has - at any given point in time - at least one constraint which limits the system's performance relative to its goal (see Liebig's law of the minimum). These constraints can be broadly classified as either an internal constraint or a market constraint. In order to manage the performance of the system, the constraint must be identified and managed correctly (according to the Five Focusing Steps below). Over time the constraint may change (e.g., because the previous constraint was managed successfully, or because of a changing environment) and the analysis starts anew.
Web_3.0
The Organic, and Dynamic, manifestation of WEB 2.0
Web 3.0 is one of the terms used to describe the evolutionary stage of the Web that follows Web 2.0.
Infosphere
You're already a 'member'
INDIVIDUALS - equitably participating in the Democratization of INFORMATION.
Infosphere is a term used since the 1990s to speculate about the common evolution of the Internet, society and culture. It is a neologism composed of information and sphere.
In his book "Digital Dharma," Steven Vedro writes, "Emerging from what French philosopher-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the shared noosphere of collective human thought, invention and spiritual seeking, the Infosphere is sometimes used to conceptualize a field that engulfs our physical, mental and etheric bodies; it affects our dreaming and our cultural life. Our evolving nervous system has been extended, as media sage Marshall McLuhan predicted in the early 1960s, into a global embrace."
The term was used by Dan Simmons in the science-fiction saga Hyperion (published 1989) to indicate what the Internet could become in the future: a place parallel, virtual, formed of billions of networks, with "artificial life" on various scales, from what is equivalent to an insect (small programs) to what is equivalent to a god (artificial intelligences), whose motivations are diverse, seeking to both help mankind and harm it.
The term has also been used by Luciano Floridi, on the basis of biosphere, to denote the whole informational environment constituted by all informational entities (thus including informational agents as well), their properties, interactions, processes and mutual relations. It is an environment comparable to, but different from cyberspace (which is only one of its sub-regions, as it were), since it also includes off-line and analogue spaces of information. According to Floridi, it is possible to equate the Infosphere to the totality of Being. This equation leads him to an informational ontology.
The IBM Software Group created the InfoSphere brand in 2008 for its Information Management software products.
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