Decision support for strategic management in a hyperknowledge environment and the holistic concept of man

Vanharanta, Hannu; Pihlanto, Pekka; Chang, Ai-Mei

doi:10.1109/hicss.1997.663187

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“…In the same sense, the HCM, a philosophic metaphor described by the Finnish philosopher and psychologist Rauhala [3], integrates the meaning of the Delphic maxims with a definition of a mentally oriented knowledge-based 'engine'. Vanharanta et al have applied the metaphor in the contexts of accounting research and computerized decision support [11]. Further, Rauhala's ideas have been acknowledged in several disciplines, e.g., theoretical information systems and knowledge management [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

The applied philosophy concept for management and leadership objects through the Company Democracy Model

Vanharanta

Markopoulos

2019

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

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Humans must be in focus when companies are improving their productivity, profitability and performance in business. Applied philosophy for management and leadership places humans in the company context as living entities aligned with the business management and leadership objects (MLOs) in the conscious experiences of the company workforce. Starting with Hellenic philosophy and drawing on more modern philosophies relevant to everyday business, the applied philosophy concept in management and leadership can harness business ontologies, taxonomies, classes and other knowledge classification techniques in order to create added value in companies. By interpreting knowledge from the Delphic maxims as the basis for many new and alternative MLOs, theories, approaches and practices can be generated. The holistic concept of man (HCM) and the circles of mind (COM) models open up the human mind and situationality in a new way, giving new alternatives in terms of understanding how humans, as decision makers, behave in a company context. This paper explores the applied philosophy concept for management and leadership in order to develop a more practical description of the company democracy model (CDM).

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Section: Background Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

The applied philosophy concept for management and leadership objects through the Company Democracy Model

Vanharanta

Markopoulos

2019

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

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“…The validity of Rauhala's conception for addressing enterprise agility lies in the fact that situationality is a manifestation of the enterprise environment, where opportunities exist, and to which the enterprise is linked by its agility faculties. Further adaptations of this model for knowledge management (decision making) purposes include the Circle of Mind metaphor developed by Vanharanta et al (1997), in which a meta-knowledge model based on Rauhala's Holistic Concept of Man (HCM) was developed and encompasses the subsystems of interpreting, memory, automatic, and motivational systems. As with Vanharanta et al (1997), here situationality denotes activities as related to objects of significance in the environment, which also allows for the creation of novel such significations.…”

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“…Further adaptations of this model for knowledge management (decision making) purposes include the Circle of Mind metaphor developed by Vanharanta et al (1997), in which a meta-knowledge model based on Rauhala's Holistic Concept of Man (HCM) was developed and encompasses the subsystems of interpreting, memory, automatic, and motivational systems. As with Vanharanta et al (1997), here situationality denotes activities as related to objects of significance in the environment, which also allows for the creation of novel such significations. These actions are here connected to the four constituents of enterprise agility conceived by Trzcielinski (2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing agility of enterprises

Huumonen¹

2010

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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This article discusses and elaborates on the fourfold constituency of enterprise agility conceived by Trzcielinski (2007, 2009). With Trzcielinski (2009, agility consists of the following characteristics or properties of the enterprise: Brightness is the ability to quickly perceive market opportunities and threats emanating from the environment; flexibility is a feature of resources available for the enterprise, extending the repertoire of the tasks that can be executed with use of these company functions and finding intentional reactions in these situations; intelligence is the ability to understand the situations in which the company functions and to find intentional reactions in these situations; and shrewdness is the ability of an enterprise to quickly use the opportunities in a beneficial way. The article sets out from the viewpoint of opportunity theory and from that of entrepreneurial undertakings (i.e., actions directed toward them). A primary concern is to define in what sense and to what degree we can speak of opportunities and actions as factual in contrast to representational, and thus bridge conceptual notions and management praxis. Opportunities and actions are argued to have a factual and a representational aspect, which coincide in the enterprise praxis. The article suggests that, if validity and factuality claims are correctly addressed, both outer and inner aspects of actions and the representational and objective notions of opportunities can be treated as agility constituents of the enterprise and that their interaction provides for a comprehensive model of enterprise agility, where ontologically different constituents complement each other and interact. C

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“…These issues are transactions, adaptions, transformation, servant, and emotional intelligence. All of these are linked to the conscious awareness of holistic manager whose origin is in Holistic concept of man [46]. Conscious awareness from oneself i.e.…”

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Leadership Focus in Modern Expert Organization

Reunanen

Junno

2016

Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education

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Leadership is a concept proven troublesome to unambiguously define and its effectivity to assess in certain situations. There still is no clear consensus what leadership is. Nevertheless of academic discussions between different definitions, practical questions still arise and leadership is one of the most interesting research issues in organizations. What is the role of leadership in modern expert organizations and how do the leaders themselves experience it? How can it be measured and visualized? In this paper, we aim to find the leader's conscious awareness towards the different leadership competencies, by building the ontology for leadership focus and using it as the theoretical frame. Paper also presents the assessment of the model, and a survey utilizing creative tension, as tool to study the leader's competencies regarding leadership focus and enhancement needs of these competencies. Our findings show that while study itself gave positive results about the function of the survey and creative tension, it points out the needs for further development. The competence level self-evaluation part is revealing that even when there is possibility to create a realistic evaluation of the respondent´s mind set towards his/hers leadership style in current situation, the research tool should be developed further when comparable magnitudes of answers are needed. Future research needs are also to be discussed in this paper.

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Decision support for strategic management in a hyperknowledge environment and the holistic concept of man

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

The applied philosophy concept for management and leadership objects through the Company Democracy Model

The applied philosophy concept for management and leadership objects through the Company Democracy Model

Conceptualizing agility of enterprises

Leadership Focus in Modern Expert Organization

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