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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Synchronicity and Decision Making

Synchronicity by Hassine Saidane   Which I had not heard described before.  A technical and academic view, but intriguing.

" ... In a previous article I argued that in order to ensure the  highest performance, decision makers need to balance the data driven actionable insights with intuition driven insights. In this article a new insight is added to the decision tool box. This insight is represented by an acausal rare, coincidental event that can have a huge impact on the decision maker's enterprise, although absolutely free. Such an event is called a synchronicity, first introduced, defined and modeled by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. 

Most of the ideas presented in this article are summaries and adaptation of excerpts from "Synchronicity", a book by Jessica Satori , and " Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an interconnected universe " by David H. Rosen. Besides integrating the concepts presented  in these books into a decision making aid, the additional contribution here is the derivation of metrics to measure and evaluate whether an event is a synchronicity. Such an evaluation boosts the awareness of these life and business changing events thereby potentially increasing the frequency of their use in decision making and resulting beneficial impact. ... "

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