Insight Management

Unpublished article with an analysis of twelve prototypical insight management styles and the recommendation that a structural information style is best entry mode for management insight, and can provide needed flexibility for follow up of any of the other eleven styles, if appropriate. See also, “Managing Insight.”

In January 2009 Warfield submitted this article to IJITM (International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management) in Singapore. There is no record of response from the journal editor, and this article was never published. From the author’s ABSTRACT: “…Management of insight is first defined in terms of four insight strategy modes, depending on whether or how groups and computers are used. For each of the four modes three possible insight representation types are defined, based on the dominant type of information that is used (verbal, quantitative, or structural). Combining the modes and types produces twelve prototypical insight management styles for analysis. Scientific studies extending over decades show that only one of these styles is appropriate to serve as the entry style of insight management to overcome the negative impacts of well-researched behavioral pathologies. Hence it should serve as the prevailing entry style of insight management, leaving relatively little burden and maximum flexibility for follow-up application of any of the other eleven styles, if appropriate.” The article has no reference section per se, but instead contains six tables within the text, which are, in combination, the essence of a topically divided reference section.

Table 1: The Behavioral Pathologies Septet

Table 2: The Warfield Sextet

Table 3: Complexity Items and Codes

Table 4: A Scientific Dectet

Table 5: Practitioner Octet

Table 6: An Internet Nonet

Warfield used this same system for references and published some of the same tables in another article titled "A View of Systems History" written about the same time period.

r.w. August 2012


Additional Info

  • Category: Group Processes, Organizations, Research History
  • Size: 18 hours approx
  • Description: Typescript & figures
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