Economics

Every person-to-person interaction in life can be characterized as either a cooperative or non-cooperative game. The Economic dimension uses Nobel Prize-winning concepts to help us interpret - and even predict - the behaviors and decision-making processes employed by individuals, teams, and organizations. Economic Game Theory helps us to objectively develop comprehensive strategies that must often include evaluation of subjective inputs. The inclusion of Economic considerations in your Synthetic Method ensures all relevant models, frameworks, and processes have the appropriate influence on your business and teams. In a word - equilibrium.

Business Value

Every individual, team, and organization needs a way to objectively determine if their investments of time, money, and effort are congruent with established value streams. The Business Value dimension of a synthetic method helps all levels of an organization stay aligned to the right objectives, and reduces ambiguity surrounding progress towards those objectives.

Psychology

Psychological considerations – the things we think and feel which can’t be explained or quantified by any math or business theory. In conjunction with the Economics and Business Value dimensions, the Psychology dimension helps us to establish the boundaries of decisions and strategies which might be completely visible to us, but unaccounted for in the way we nurture our individuals, teams, and organizations. More decisions are made in business today which can be explained by Psychological principles and cognitive biases than any prevailing management doctrine. Understanding how and why things are the way they are is critical to success.

Regulation

Regulatory concerns don’t affect all initiatives and Teams, but when they do, they tend to be a significant consideration that requires objective evaluation to determine how to respond. In conjunction with one another - The Psychology dimension helps us to address Regulatory concerns in a more objective fashion; the Economic dimension helps us to moderate our response to Regulatory concerns; and the Business Value dimension helps us baseline the magnitude of these concerns, and assess progress.

Elementary Analysis

What problem are you trying to solve, and what outcome do you want to achieve? You'd think answers to those questions would precede any effort to isolate, let alone implement, a solution - but that isn't always the case. The Elementary Analysis core principle of your Synthetic Method puts the horse before the cart, and pulls the thread as far as is needed to get to the core of the problem. Elementary Analysis also helps you to identify industry-standard processes, frameworks, and experiences of value that you will use within your Synthetic Method.

Synthesis

The Synthesis core principle is perhaps the most value-added differentiator between a Synthetic Method... and pretty much everything else. The first short-coming and limitation in off-the-shelf frameworks is that they don’t determine what the problem is before running to the table with a solution. The initial Elementary Analysis principle mitigates this by comprehensively analyzing your operating environment to isolate root cause problems. Synthesis involves taking the results of that analysis and assembling a unique fabric of methods, processes, and expectations - from as many inputs as necessary - to solve the problem. When Synthesis begins... everything is fair game.

Statistical Control

Since so much consideration is put into synthesizing the method, it is only logical to ensure you are capturing the data to tell us what improvements may be needed to make your methods more resilient and effective. People and data are the most valuable diagnostic tools available to a Team or organization. Statistical Control keeps the performance improvement loop populated with new ways to deliver products more effectively.

Nature

You generally don't want to develop or embrace a method that ignores human nature and tendencies. The supporting dimensions of Psychology and Economics gives us the tools we need to determine how to avoid fighting an uphill battle against both Human Nature and Mother Nature. When you go along with the tendencies of nature, adoption of any method is improved.

Nurture

When you decide to cultivate a capability, it has to be done in a way that ensures the kind of adoption that is needed to make development of the capability worth the investment. As an alternative to traditional Coaching… when you nurture new and advanced concepts, you increase the likelihood that they will be adopted in a more natural fashion – avoiding the square peg in a round hole paradox.

Objective

The Objective dimension of a synthetic method guides us towards an understanding of the things we can observe, measure, and to which we can assign values, or otherwise clearly distinguishable indications of one value over another. Effectively balancing the roles of objectivity and subjectivity is critical to the Synthesis of useable methods.

Subjective

The Subjective dimension of a Synthetic Method guides us to take into account the things we may not be able to measure or observe as quantitatively as we can objective components. How we feel about things - that “gut feeling” people talk about - it is subjective, but critically important. Subjective synthesis is required to ensure we don’t ignore the role of what we believe and feel.

Synthetic Methods

Synthetic Methods is the most effective and efficient Transformation model ever designed. It’s simplicity and minimalistic nature replaces the need for you to commit to complex or cumbersome frameworks. Synthetic Methods is a purely empirical Transformation model. The end product - your synthetic method - is derived from a needs-based analysis of your teams and organization. Those needs are established and supported through 3 core dimensions which forms your Synthetic Method: Elementary Analysis, Synthesis, and Statistical Control. Components of any and all methods, frameworks, models, processes, and individual experiences are fair game to your synthetic method. Your synthetic method can then be strengthened by supportive dimensions: Economics, Business Value, Regulation, and Psychology. Once your synthetic method is developed, these concepts help to build resiliency and flexibility into your method. Of course, all methods require balance. Some things come more naturally, while others must be nurtured. Some principles of your synthetic method will be objective, and some will be subjective. These peripheral areas of Nature, Nurture, Objective, and Subjective remind us to continue to pursue and maintain balance in our synthetic methods. Hover over any area of the graphic to learn more!

Synthetic Methods - the most effective transformation method ever created