Integrative Improvement™, NEW IT™ and DIG 247™
Integrative Improvement (II) is a bottom-up approach for achieving sustainable development developed by Graham Douglas. It is implemented by training all involved to apply NEW Integrative Thinking™ (NEW IT) and Douglas Integrative Governance 247™ (DIG 247).
According to Douglas, “critical thinking” is no longer enough for innovators and those seeking sustainable development in today’s world of disparate parts. Critical thinking is thinking which is "inside the box". Douglas suggests that individuals should also be trained specifically in "NEW Integrative Thinking" (NEW IT) which he posits is consistent with the integrative way nature, our bodies, brains and minds function.
"In contrast to critical thinking, NEW IT is a process of habitually and almost automatically making connections to create a whole new picture rather than habitually and almost automatically breaking down an old picture into its parts.
"NEW IT may be thought of as a successor to lateral thinking and using multiple intelligences but, not surprisingly, is fully integrated, not an add-on extra. It is a practical application of Mind Science so is a form of technology but it is human-based rather than machine-based technology. It is a NEW way of thinking which helps us think outside and inside the box and integrate the two as we plan and act.
"The process of NEW IT may be thought of as our wondering (W) about a situation, creating a narrative (N) connecting our wonderings and managing our experiences (E) in acting out our narrative. It involves understanding and learning what our basic human needs and aspects of our human will are, what guides us in balancing those needs and will, clarifying what we have and what we want to set our goal, exploring possible connections when relaxed, arriving at a strategy to negotiate the change from what we have to what we want, devising tactics to advance the strategy, taking bold, assertive and timely action to achieve our goal, reviewing and evaluating our performance."
Douglas Integrative Governance 247 (DIG 247) arose from applying NEW IT to the subject of governance. DIG 247 “offers a new approach to governance for existing and start-up organisations that want to survive, adapt and prosper by meeting 247 [twenty four - seven] the sustainable needs and wants of individual end-consumers/citizens in balanced ways that benefit both parties." According to Douglas, DIG 247 "offers a way of re-humanising relationships. It is governance for the emerging distributed economy."
"In short, DIG 247 is about helping organisations employ fully the integrative capacity of individuals to ensure the organisations are stable enough to meet efficiently, effectively and competitively the needs and wants of end-consumers/citizens while remaining adaptable enough to self-organise to meet changes in those needs and wants."
Taken together, NEW IT and DIG 247 provide the basis for training in and achievement of Integrative Improvement.
Core Principles of Integrative Improvement (II)
According to Douglas, “critical thinking” is no longer enough for innovators and those seeking sustainable development in today’s world of disparate parts. Critical thinking is thinking which is "inside the box". Douglas suggests that individuals should also be trained specifically in "NEW Integrative Thinking" (NEW IT) which he posits is consistent with the integrative way nature, our bodies, brains and minds function.
"In contrast to critical thinking, NEW IT is a process of habitually and almost automatically making connections to create a whole new picture rather than habitually and almost automatically breaking down an old picture into its parts.
"NEW IT may be thought of as a successor to lateral thinking and using multiple intelligences but, not surprisingly, is fully integrated, not an add-on extra. It is a practical application of Mind Science so is a form of technology but it is human-based rather than machine-based technology. It is a NEW way of thinking which helps us think outside and inside the box and integrate the two as we plan and act.
"The process of NEW IT may be thought of as our wondering (W) about a situation, creating a narrative (N) connecting our wonderings and managing our experiences (E) in acting out our narrative. It involves understanding and learning what our basic human needs and aspects of our human will are, what guides us in balancing those needs and will, clarifying what we have and what we want to set our goal, exploring possible connections when relaxed, arriving at a strategy to negotiate the change from what we have to what we want, devising tactics to advance the strategy, taking bold, assertive and timely action to achieve our goal, reviewing and evaluating our performance."
Douglas Integrative Governance 247 (DIG 247) arose from applying NEW IT to the subject of governance. DIG 247 “offers a new approach to governance for existing and start-up organisations that want to survive, adapt and prosper by meeting 247 [twenty four - seven] the sustainable needs and wants of individual end-consumers/citizens in balanced ways that benefit both parties." According to Douglas, DIG 247 "offers a way of re-humanising relationships. It is governance for the emerging distributed economy."
"In short, DIG 247 is about helping organisations employ fully the integrative capacity of individuals to ensure the organisations are stable enough to meet efficiently, effectively and competitively the needs and wants of end-consumers/citizens while remaining adaptable enough to self-organise to meet changes in those needs and wants."
Taken together, NEW IT and DIG 247 provide the basis for training in and achievement of Integrative Improvement.
Core Principles of Integrative Improvement (II)
- II is a bottom-up approach involving everybody.
- II emphasises connections, relationships and interactions because it is based on the current scientific understanding of our world as tending to be self-organising with human beings whose minds are naturally integrative.
- II is about improving (making or becoming better) in a balanced, integrative and sustainable way the lives people already have, that is, it is about - sustainable development as if people and their physical, social and cultural environments mattered.
- II involves encouraging and facilitating integrative governance™ enabled by technology in all government, business and civil society organisations.
- II progress is measured by indicators of well-being such as those included in the Sustainable Society Index.
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