The Monthly “Dot Connections”: Intuition Dot Connection Oct. 2018

The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Organization of the Future is an organization designed openly for anyone with ideas on how human organizations ought to be contrived in the face of the strategic imperatives of the digital era. The work is not the place you go, but a live organization and an experiment lab you can connect the future dots. Here is a set of blogs of brainstorming intuition.

                            Intuition Dot Connection 

Creativity vs. Intuition: Does Creativity Stem from IntuitionThere is a link between the two, creativity and intuition. Creativity is an innate process to create novel ideas. Creativity is in all functions (thinking, sensing) and works best if all functions are allowed to do their job. According to Wikipedia, intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason.

Intuition vs. Sensation? Intuition is more receptive, global, holistic and sensation is more active, focal, serial. Intuition is the perception of inside images, and sensation is the perception of outside images etc. As Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst well described: Sensation and intuition are perceptive functions, they make us aware of what is happening but do not interpret or evaluate it.

Do You Make Choices via Intuition or Deliberate Thinking? Perhaps the mind is one of the most complex things in the world; the mind is the interface between body and consciousness. It can be very active if we care for it. The mind can both think fast (intuition) and think slow (analytics); the mind is reasoning, calculating and creating, etc. Do you make choices more based on intuition or logic?

Big Data vs. Business Intuition Digitalization drives the massive cultural shift that is taking place at an increasing velocity, variety of data. Does it mean Big Data will make gut-feeling intuition irrelevant? Data is always a management tool and not a leadership tool. Intuition still plays a crucial role in decision making

When Shall you Go with Intuition, when shall you do Analytics? There are many considerations in leveraging thinking fast and slow. The business decision is both art and science, especially in the exponential change and business dynamic we face today, it is so difficult to make effective decisions without the right strategy and methodology. How do you decide whether you should go with your gut, or do a careful analysis? What questions do you ask? What role does problem framing have in the choice balance between...

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