Welcome to our Constructive Thoughts Blog. Here I will take a look at what may us drive from a perspective of Constructivism and Systems Theory, the paradigm under which we do our work. My contributions will be unregular and mostly occur on interesting developments in our outer world that make me think deeper than usual. Feel free to use comments for opening a dialogue with you.
From view of the Systems Theory, a organizations competence is the competence of the social system of the organization. As social systems require living entities, in a organization we as the humans are the contributors to the overall competence of the organization. Emergence is a quality of systems, where the sum of its parts is something different than the parts itself.
Read moreThe current situation on the financial markets, most speak of a "Crisis", is interesting in view of a Constructivist. Immediately one particular question forms in my mind: "How the earth did we manage do achieve this?". To see us now as the victims of others is just the spyhole view of straight line thinkers.
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The European Union recently put its car
manufacturers in front of their own choice to a draft of legally
binding limits of CO2 emissions of cars with 2012 at a level of 120g
per driven kilometer. This step of the EU is founded within the
observation that it seems improbable to the EU that european carmakers
will achieve its voluntarily chosen goal to cut CO2 emissions on new
manufactured cars.
Very interesting to observe is the reaction of the by that relevant
organisations, sourcing from their top management levels.
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Findings out of the evolutionary theory, which stem from scientists like Humberto Maturana, have now also entered technology. For todays example more precisely into robotics.
At the University of Vermont (USA)
a robot has been equipped with a software model allowing it, despite
the loss of one of his legs, to find alternative ways of movement.
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Today I will begin to blog about many things and the constructive thoughts these create. Instead of thinking, speaking it out loud to
myself somewhere, here at PILLWAX Industrial Solutions Consulting I
came up with the better way of blogging it. Blogging is a nice and
inventive combination of thinking and writing, making the products of
that human - machine interaction readable to everyone out connected to
the internet.
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