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Welcome to the collaboration space of The Unicist Research Institute. This space is managed by The Unicist School to share information and experiences that deal with the use of functionalist principles in the economic and the business world. Since 1976, TURI has been the world-leading research organization that introduced the functionalist approach to science to research and develop the functionalist principles of the real world.
The Functionalist Principle
The functionalist principle defines that there is nothing in the universe, which is part of a system, that does not work with a purpose, an active and entropic function, and an energy conservation function. Their interaction defines the functionality of the binary actions that make the functionalist principles work. The discovery of the functional structure of binary actions made the systematic design of synchronized binary actions possible, which simplified and ensured the results of business processes.
The Power of Binary Actions
Binary actions make things work. 100% of the business models of expansive businesses are based on binary actions that include the use of catalysts. Binary actions are intuitively used by those who need to achieve results. Binary actions are two synchronized actions that, one the one hand, open possibilities establishing a functional context and, on the other hand, close processes to generate results.
The functionalist principles deal with the fundamentals of things to define their functional structures and with binary actions to drive their actions. The knowledge of the functional structures and the binary actions makes things reasonable, understandable, and predictable.
The emulation of nature is based on the discovery of the ontogenetic intelligence of nature that regulates the evolution of living beings, natural entities and complex systems.
The unicist logic explains the functionality of the real world and the rules for abductive reasoning. It defines the intelligence of things by describing their functionality.
This book provides the functionalist technologies that were developed to manage the root-causes of problems, build solutions, and manage adaptive environments.
The unicist reflection uses an “action-reflection-action” approach driven by the development of pilot tests and destructive tests to apprehend the nature of adaptive environments.
The functionalist principles of businesses are given by the management of the functional structure of businesses and the use of synchronized binary actions to ensure results. The unicist functionalist approach simplifies businesses by managing the fundamentals of their functions.
The emulation of nature was the basis for the development of the Unicist Strategy and its applications to all the fields of human activities that require a strategic approach.
The purpose of conceptual design is to define the process architecture of the solution. The emulation of the solution is possible if the conceptual knowledge of the solution is available.
The unicist logic explains the functionality of the real world and the rules for abductive reasoning. It defines the intelligence of things by describing their functionality.
The Unicist organizational approach is based on the use of business objects that emulate the organization of nature both to grow and to ensure survival in adaptive environments.
Unicist Continuous Improvement integrates innovation and business objects to improve processes, using quality assurance and client centered management to increase effectiveness.
Unicist architecture is a structural functionalist approach to business design that deals with its ontological structure and designs the functionality of the business processes.
In this e-book you will find the unicist logical approach and the unicist objects that allow building an institutional catalyst in business that works as a key to growth.
The unicist approach made the development of methods, objects and technologies to manage businesses as adaptive systems possible, developing adaptive tools to foster growth.
Unicist Peopleware is defined by the structure of objects that individuals have in their minds, which define the models they use when dealing with hardware and software at work.
The Unicist Standard was developed to establish the points of reference to deal with adaptive systems providing the rules to manage the dynamics of the adaptive aspects of businesses.
In this book you will find the description of the structures of business functions that allow developing scenarios and strategies and managing the root drivers of processes.
The object driven organizational approach transforms the business architecture into business processes that include unicist objects to save energy and increase results.
By emulating nature, the functionalist principles of strategy use synchronized binary actions that are based on maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to survive. The discovery of the structure of the concepts that define the functionality of things, and the discovery that these concepts drive people’s actions led to the development of the unicist strategic approach.
The emulation of nature was the basis for the development of the Unicist Strategy and its applications to all the fields of human activities that require a strategic approach.
The unicist logic explains the functionality of the real world and the rules for abductive reasoning. It defines the intelligence of things by describing their functionality.
The unicist approach to future research is based on the fact that future and past are not symmetric. Unicist future research is a core tool for intelligence services.
The paradigm shift of the Unicist Theory is based on the discovery of the intelligence that underlies nature and explains the dynamics and evolution of living beings and complex adaptive entities.
Human actions are driven by the concepts people have that define the fundamentals of their doings. Therefore, the concepts people have drive their buying processes. The functionalist principles of marketing use synchronized binary actions to influence the concepts people have in mind based on the functional structure of their buying arguments.
Unicist Root Cause Marketing is based on a segmented approach that manages the root causes of buying decisions and uses marketing objects to influence potential customers.
Unicist commercial objects are adaptive systems that have been developed to drive and catalyze marketing actions to install ideas in the mind of potential customers.
The purpose of conceptual design is to define the process architecture of the solution. The emulation of the solution is possible if the conceptual knowledge of the solution is available.
The unicist logic explains the functionality of the real world and the rules for abductive reasoning. It defines the intelligence of things by describing their functionality.
Commercial critical mass is defined as the minimal amount of focused energy that is necessary to produce a planned commercial phenomenon that allows ensuring results.
It allows defining customer profiles both for B2C and B2B markets considering the root drivers of buyers’ behavior. This increases the accuracy of the marketing actions and sales.
This technology allows using virtual vehicles, commercial objects and the unicist segmentation to expand markets by building new distribution channels or empowering existent channels.
The Unicist Standard was developed to establish the points of reference to deal with adaptive systems providing the rules to manage the dynamics of the adaptive aspects of businesses.
Semantic objects are linguistics communications, in written or verbal format, that have the power to install meaningful knowledge in the long-term memory of an individual.
The unicist approach to semiosis was developed to upgrade communication processes. It goes beyond the triadic model of Peirce and the dualistic model of Saussure.
This book provides a bridge between human and artificial intelligence that became possible due to the unicist logic that allowed building synchronized binary actions to make things happen.
The unicist marketing strategies to approach customers and the competitive strategies to manage competitors provide the necessary binary actions to manage marketing processes.
The functionalist principles of IT use synchronized binary actions to develop adaptive systems based on the functional structure of processes, the use of unicist logic and the use of unicist AI to build intelligent systems and adaptive automation.
Unicist Peopleware is defined by the structure of objects that individuals have in their minds, which define the models they use when dealing with hardware and software at work.
Adaptive Automation allows developing systems that interact with the external and internal environment to generate added value using logical inferences to manage adaptiveness.
Unicist architecture is a structural functionalist approach to business design that deals with its ontological structure and designs the functionality of the business processes.
The purpose of conceptual design is to define the process architecture of the solution. The emulation of the solution is possible if the conceptual knowledge of the solution is available.
The unicist logic explains the functionality of the real world and the rules for abductive reasoning. It defines the intelligence of things by describing their functionality.
This book provides a bridge between human and artificial intelligence that became possible due to the unicist logic that allowed building synchronized binary actions to make things happen.
Unicist Continuous Improvement integrates innovation and business objects to improve processes, using quality assurance and client centered management to increase effectiveness.
Technologies allowed making the next step in organizational design, integrating personal and virtual collaboration, organizing roles and using business objects to maximize results.
The object driven organizational approach transforms the business architecture into business processes that include unicist objects to save energy and increase results.
The Unicist Standard was developed to establish the points of reference to deal with adaptive systems providing the rules to manage the dynamics of the adaptive aspects of businesses.
The U-DROIDS are productive flexible robots, homologous to industrial robots and autopilots, that use unicist business objects to deal with the adaptive aspects of businesses.
The Unicist XD Design Methodology uses unicist logical tools to integrate business functions, peopleware, software and hardware. The final output is a reliable concept-prototype.
The functionalist principles of people management organize processes based on the synchronized binary actions that are needed to ensure results. It includes the design of work processes focused on ensuring internal and external customer orientation.
Justifications and foundations are necessary to build reliable knowledge. Justifications deal with empirical aspects while foundations deal with the concepts that underlie facts.
The unicist approach to talent development is focused on empowering the capacity of high potential individuals who need to deal with complex problems to build simple solutions.
The objective of people in this Era is to find a better place in the world, conserve it, expand it and avoid losing it. This Era changes the way people deal with others.
Unicist Negotiations is a back to basics that begins with role negotiation, continues with power negotiation and action negotiations ending with complementation negotiation.
This book provides a bridge between human and artificial intelligence that became possible due to the unicist logic that allowed building synchronized binary actions to make things happen.
This book provides the functionalist technologies that were developed to manage the root-causes of problems, build solutions, and manage adaptive environments.
Unicist Strategy is a functionalist approach that emulates the intelligence of nature to achieve results. It uses maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to survive.
The unicist reflection uses an “action-reflection-action” approach driven by the development of pilot tests and destructive tests to apprehend the nature of adaptive environments.
Expansive healthcare organizations include the use of functionalist principles and binary actions of medical practice: vocation driven, and profession driven approaches. The now available technologies allow integrating health with curing processes to manage health and healthcare processes to empower patient centricity.
The discovery of the ontogenetic intelligence of nature allowed understanding the ontological structure of living beings and dealing with complex systems like medicine.
In this book you will find the description of the structures of business functions that allow developing scenarios and strategies and managing the root drivers of processes.
The object driven organizational approach transforms the business architecture into business processes that include unicist objects to save energy and increase results.
The discovery of the conceptual structures of medical specializations, patients, diseases and therapeutics allowed developing patient centricity optimizing processes.
Unicist Continuous Improvement integrates innovation and business objects to improve processes, using quality assurance and client centered management to increase effectiveness.
Unicist Teaching Hospitals in Business are a Superior Education model to manage the adaptive aspects of businesses using unicist logic based and object driven technologies.
The Unicist Standard was developed to establish the points of reference to deal with adaptive systems providing the rules to manage the dynamics of the adaptive aspects of businesses.
There is a trend towards expansive healthcare organizations. Expansive healthcare organizations are based on two major trends: vocation and profession driven medical practice.
The use of functionalist principles of education fosters the learning of the functional structures of adaptive environments. It requires accessing the fundamentals of the functions involved and being able to diagnose and build solutions that include the necessary synchronized binary actions.
When information becomes a commodity, only those who have the concept of what they are doing can lead. The reflection driven education is focused on conceptualizing.
Unicist Strategy is a functionalist approach that emulates the intelligence of nature to achieve results. It uses maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to survive.
This book provides both the origins and possible solutions of fallacies. It provides the categories of fallacies that need to be avoided in everyday life, work, teamwork, and business.
The unicist reflection uses an “action-reflection-action” approach driven by the development of pilot tests and destructive tests to apprehend the nature of adaptive environments.
Learning objects install an adaptive knowledge object in the mind of the learner, which implies the accommodation process to accept new aspects that were not managed before.
Reliable knowledge integrates fundamental and technical analytical knowledge based on foundations, the antidote to rationalism, subjectivism, relativism and voluntarism.
Conceptual benchmarking implies using information to recreate a functional solution. It does not imply copying. Adaptive solutions cannot be copied, they need to be recreated.
Superior Education is defined as the activity that deals with the acquisition of knowledge to manage the complex adaptive aspects of the environment using a logical approach.
The functionalist principles of social and economic evolution are based on being able to manage the ontogenetic maps of the functions involved. It requires identifying the existent binary actions that drive social and economic behavior and finding the catalysts that allow fostering evolution.
Unicist Anthropology is the complexity scientific approach to human behavior and the ontogenesis of human deeds that allows forecasting and influencing the evolution of cultures.
Ideologies are beliefs of a group or individual that use the necessary technology to satisfy specific interests within the limits of the myths installed in a specific environment.
The synthesis of this research provides an access to the concept of democracy that allows apprehending its "stem cell", which enables cultures to foster democratic behaviors.
As the driver of democracy, economic freedom has shown that its evolution has a direct impact on the ethics of a culture. The ontogenetic maps provided here allow managing its concept.
Unicist Econometrics integrates the unicist ontological approach with the conventional econometric methodology to deliver accurate forecasts and proposals to influence the environment.
Sustainable globalization applies to countries or any public or private institution to establish a common space where this competition is equilibrated with an active cooperation.
Complex adaptive systems need to be managed as a unified field in order to avoid changing their nature. This requires knowing the concepts that define their essential functionality.
The root cause of the clash between cultures is in fact the confrontation between over-adaptive and adaptive cultures that implies a battle between dualism and adaptiveness.
The functionalist principles are based on the discovery of the intelligence that underlies nature that defines the functionality of human intelligence. It led to the development of the unicist logic that allows managing the binary actions in the real world. This approach allowed developing an artificial intelligence that emulates human intelligence.
The Unicist Standard Language is the language that is necessary to structure the concepts and fundamentals of any system or process to understand it and manage its functionality.
This book provides a bridge between human and artificial intelligence that became possible due to the unicist logic that allowed building synchronized binary actions to make things happen.
The discovery of ontointelligence allowed structuring the functionality of intelligence in adaptive processes. It provided the structure of the drivers of conscious behavior.
The research demonstrated that the evolution of the strategic approach of individuals drives the evolution of their intelligence and can be considered the core of adults’ evolution.
Unicist reflection, driven by an "action-reflection-action" process, is required to discover or apprehend the structure of a concept, to develop strategies and to design architecture.
Only people who can complement themselves are able to build a complement with others and with the environment. This requires being aware of one's implicit weaknesses and strengths.
This book provides both the origins and possible solutions of fallacies. It provides the categories of fallacies that need to be avoided in everyday life, work, teamwork, and business.
This intelligence evolves based on the maturity of individuals and defines the possibilities and limits of their actions. It defines the true intentions individuals have.
The functionalist principles allowed emulating the structure of things that is defined by a purpose, an active function, and an energy conservation function. They allow managing the binary actions that drive the functionality of things integrating their “know why” with their “know how”.
The paradigm shift in sciences introduced by the Unicist Theory made complex adaptive systems reasonable, understandable and manageable.
The Unicist Epistemology is a pragmatic, structural and functionalist approach based on the development of logical foundations and empirical justifications to sustain knowledge.
The Unicist Approach to Complexity Sciences is a scientific approach to understand and emulate nature when designing, building or managing complex adaptive systems.
It includes the major discoveries made at The Unicist Research Institute that are a breakthrough and a back to basic in the management of the adaptive aspects of reality.
Unicist Anthropology is the complexity scientific approach to human behavior and the ontogenesis of human deeds that allows forecasting and influencing the evolution of cultures.
The economic scenario drives the development of countries. Conceptual Economy deals with the nature of economic behavior to develop transgenerational scenarios.
Unicist Conceptual Psychology explains the roots of the individuals' capacity to use their intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence to better adapt to the environment.
This book provides both the origins and possible solutions of fallacies. It provides the categories of fallacies that need to be avoided in everyday life, work, teamwork, and business.
The functionalist approach to science is based on the discovery of the ontogenetic intelligence of nature, which is the intelligence that underlies nature. It establishes the basic structures of the functionality of nature and provides the structural approach to deal with science.
The paradigm shift of the Unicist Theory is based on the discovery of the intelligence that underlies nature and explains the dynamics and evolution of living beings and complex adaptive entities.
The discovery of the ontogenetic intelligence of nature allowed developing the Unicist Theory that explains the dynamics and evolution of living beings and complex adaptive entities.
The Unicist Approach to Complexity Sciences introduced a scientific approach to understand nature and provide a structure to emulate it when dealing with complex adaptive systems.
The Unicist Epistemology is a pragmatic, structural and functionalist approach based on the development of logical foundations and empirical justifications to sustain knowledge.
The research on the functionality of things requires discovering their functionalist principles and the binary actions that make them work. It requires managing ontological reverse engineering to discover the functional structures of things and a pilot test driven reflection process to confirm the functionality of the conclusions.
A Unicist Think Tank is a group of people who are building a solution to upgrade the functionality of a complex adaptive environment by developing innovative solutions.
The Unicist Epistemology is based on the development of the logical foundations and the empirical justifications to sustain knowledge to deal with complex adaptive environments.
The essential concept of research is to find innovations to improve the added value to the environment. In order to do so, research builds foundations to explain the facts of a given reality.
The Unicist Standard for Pilot Testing establishes the procedures to develop destructive and non-destructive pilot tests to confirm the validity of solutions for adaptive systems.
It includes the major discoveries made at The Unicist Research Institute that are a breakthrough and a back to basic in the management of the adaptive aspects of reality.
The research of human adaptive systems is driven by the use of ontological reverse engineering to discover or rediscover the nature of an object of reality that is being researched.
The Unicist Standard was developed to establish the points of reference to deal with adaptive systems providing the rules to manage the dynamics of the adaptive aspects of businesses.
The Unicist Reflection is an action-reflection-action process that allows defining solutions and strategies while expanding the consciousness of the one who is reflecting.
The future cannot be predicted, just inferred. This process is based on the knowledge of the functionalist principles of a particular reality that is found in the past and the use of the data of the present to infer the future. This inference is based on the use of the unicist logic and the unicist ontology of evolution.
This approach is based on the fact that future and past are not symmetric. The objective of the unicist future research is to define a future scenario in order to influence it.
Adaptive leadership begins to be the “star" based on a role that supersedes the use of technology and allows expanding activities towards a superior level of productivity.
Internet has become an emulation of the world, integrated by multiple cultures, languages, ethnicities, religions and histories that share a common meta-language.
Future Scenarios built using unicist logical inferences. It requires discovering the ontological structure in the past and using the facts of the present to infer the future.
Changes in communications, the era of participation, Internet and the IT technologies drive marketing towards the next step which is a back to basics: Adaptive Marketing.
The Natural Organization is a role driven organization in which each role works as an object that is used to manage the adaptive aspects of businesses to generate added value.
This future scenario implies a turning point based on an increase in the level of empathic influence on the markets to empower the adaptiveness of commercial processes.
Superior Education is defined as the activity that deals with the acquisition of knowledge to manage the complex adaptive aspects of the environment using a logical approach.