Over the years, I have read mountains of material about “good coaching”. For several reasons, I do not even like the expression “good coaching”. This is such an arbitrary expression that had no clear meaning. —RLN
Dr. Newkirk Coaching Focus
Dr. Newkirk has dedicated himself to the develkopment of the the New Problem-Solving Paradigm. Dr. Newkirk is committed to delivering the best coaching possible to every client. His goal is to offer every client:
Affordable & Intelligent Problem-Solving: Everyone deserves their own Problem-Solving Platform without the burden of “sticker Shock”.
Comfortable Problem-Solving: Everyone deserves a potent, intelligent, and virtual problem-solving assistant that naturally responds to the capacity and skill level of each client to use.
Responsive Client Service: Everyone deserves responsive, appropriate, and effective customer service without undue delay.
Global Rapid Problem-Solving: Everyone deserves access to their AIS™ assistant whenever and wherever they travel to leverage problem-solving to enhance competitiveness.
AIS™ Platform Members: Everyone deserves access to the AIS™ Platform virtually to generate solutions whenever they need them. We take pride in assisting both new and expert problem-solvers in finding more effective solutions more rapidly.
Co-Creation in Problem-Solving: Every person deserves the opportunity to solve problems virtually with the assistance of intelligent technology that enables clients to co-create solutions whenever possible.
Fun with Problem-Solving: Everyone deserves access to tools and techniques that transform problem-solving into an enjoyable hobby that enriches the client’s quality of life while building their skills.
The AIS™ for a Client-Centered Environment
Dr. Newkirk offers unique coaching features designed to enhance the mstery of the critical softskills that make success possible. He offers:
Confidential One on One Coaching & Mentoring
Forums through which participants ask and answer questions and elaborate on important matters.
Relevant and hard hiding blogs to discuss emerging issues.
Newsletters to share the latest news about topics of interest within the AIS™ community.
Opportunities to share, sell and buy E-Books and skills-development content
Opportunities to enjoy online learning.
Opportunities to engage in R&D using cases and a library of practice-based content.
Proven Solutions for Real World Problems
Dr. Newkirk works with clients to assist them with solving everyday management and team problems by offering proven solutions derived from real-world projects. We make our AIS™ available to clients as a problem-solving repository. We share our demonstrated expertise to enable clients to apply AIS™ to enhance their mastery of the core skills that form the basis of workplace competence as they solve workplace challenges.
Collaborative Environment
Our collaborative approach builds a community of experts that encourages serious dialogue about the challenges facing organizations and teams as they transition to constantly emerging business models. iSOD™ encourages clients to increase their own revenue opportunities by:
Using the Internet to teach others.
Publishing their own content to expand their own spheres of professional influence, build their recognition, and enhance their careers.
Connecting with a global audience of like-minded professionals to complement their own personal web service.
Deepening their interests in developing, sharing, and marketing their own skills.
We create a new industry by transforming the internet experience of business professionals who aspire to take their place at the Pinnacle of Decision Making. We also:
We blend successful management practice with the collaboration capabilities of blogging to reduce dependency on consulting and training and transform problem-solving.
We take the Internet to its logical destination as the link between theory and practice and problem definition and solution.
We facilitate the development of intelligent Solutions On-Demand™ to enhance workplace skills by offering successful experience as a learning assistant.
We expand the current practices of project management by blending the strengths of E-delivery to add client value and enhance business-performance ratios.
Knowledge Loss
Dr. Newkirk has witnessed the increasing loss of expertise, skill, and competence in the workplace over the last 35 years. Agreeing with others that the gap between knowledge and the workplace has widened, we provide professional skill enhancement through specific intelligent Applied Intutive Solutions™ that enhance the core areas of workplace competence:
(1) Managing Self,
(2) Communicating Well,
(3) Managing People and Tasks, and
(4) Mobilizing Innovation and Change.
Where the Content Came From
“SMI matters because it rapidly delivers evidence-base solutions to problems.
SMI has the content that makes employee development meaningful.”
Raymond L. Newkirk
The content comes directly from the field of real experience in corporation, institutions, and government agencies.
The content emerges from the consulting knowledge warehouse of the Systems Management Institute.
We have built an impressive repository of intellectual capital, consulting knowledge, and project data.
Content is derived from more than 15 different industries and more than 20 different types of services.
We derived content from banking and finance, manufacturing, logistics, communications, software development, management consulting, education, entertainment, marketing and sales, research and development, high technology, insurance, government, defense, medical, aviation, construction, foods, optical, and distribution industries.
Content represents problem solving, management development, technology implementation, staff education and development.
We derived the Content is derived from global engagements.
In Asia, we derived content from the design of an Electronic Commerce Architecture to support a global economic development network, and the design of a Military Logistics System.
In Europe, we derived content from corporate restructuring projects that involved the design of cluster organizations, implementation of information technologies, automation of workflows, and the development of marketing and sales programs.
In the Middle East, content was derived from the development of automated logistics systems, five-year strategic Information Technology plans, and systems management, vendor evaluation services, and the design of Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS).
In the U.S.A., we derived content from program management projects that involved change management and configuration control, business process re-engineering, executive support systems design, business process modeling, client server computing, QA implementation, business continuity planning, training and systems development, evaluation of information technology, re-engineering of software development and business environments, evaluation of proposals for information technology, TQM/testing, facilitation of E-commerce, assistance in visioning, mission definition, divisional redesign, information technology interface design and implementation, business continuity planning, implementation of electronic document interchange, and ISO 9000 audits.
Our content represents consulting investments exceeding many millions of dollars.
We transformed this consulting knowledge into certification programs to share this valuable information with those wishing to enhance professional practice and workplace performance.
SMI has made the content available at a fraction of the cost paid by the organizations that previously had it produced as consulting deliverables.
All content has undergone the validation of actual use prior to to designing it educational use.
“Our content represents an effort to make available our broad and in-depth experience of demonstrated value within the coaching, learning, business, technology, and consulting industries for access by individuals and teams who see professional growth as a life-long process of self-directed learning.”
Raymond L. Newkirk, Psy.D., Ph.D., Ph.D.
In Culture, We Deliver:
Process Values and Beliefs,
Process Attitudes and Behaviors,
Responsiveness to Process Change,
Leadership Attention to Process,
Process Social Networks
CORE VALUES
“Offering a library of workplace-authentic learning content, a mindful learning architecture, and a cost-effective and simplified delivery system which forms an exciting and
expanding virtual learning environment, SMI is at the forefront of the problem-solving revolution in professional development and performance improvement.”
Dr. Raymond L. Newkirk
As a Coach, Dr. Newkirk values core education with rapid application. He is committed to:
Global Virtual Education to educate the world.
Cost effective and convenient programs of professional education.
Immediate application through SMILC’s “Use While You Learn” approach.
Core content as a shortcut to practical learning.
Professional and Personal Competency.
Enhanced competency through life-long learning.
Efficient, effective, quick, and targeted courses.
Network of professional contacts.
Making life easier for students mastering the course material.
Certificates that mean something to individuals and employers.
Offering program that enable students to become recognized for their expertise and competence.
Making a difference in the emerging world of virtual education.
Focusing on learning, not teaching.
Changing the framework of professional education.
“Dr. Newkirk offers and attractive value proposition. We deliver the business benefits of
cost efficiency, quality, service, and speed to provide real value to organizations,
workgroups, and individuals.” —Ray Newkirk
In People, We deliver AIS™ that address:
Process Skills and Expertise,
Process Education and Learning,
Process Collaboration and Communication,
Process Knowledge, and Process Management Leadership
Delivering Emotionally Engaging Problem-Solving through the AIS™ Platform
Using Digital Problem-Solving Experiences: The Future is Today
3/16/2017
Without getting too technical, SMI Corporation analyzes many terabytes of content collected over a period of 50+ years. SMI gathered the content from around the world to derive human problem-solving insights that would not be obvious even with modern A/I and big data applications.
SMI Corporation possesses an extremely large repository of proprietary knowledge, information, and data stored in the Virtual Expert Intelligence Systems (VEIS). We derived the repository of content from the solutions delivered during consulting engagements. We analyzed these solutions for suitability using a set of proprietary algorithms. We, then, transformed them into intelligent Applied Intuitive Solutions™ (iAIS™) to rapidly close the gap between Problem Definition and solution delivery using predictive models built from actual longitudinal application. Our Virtual Expert Intelligence System (VEIS) delivers a powerful environment that assists individuals, teams, and organizations (in this case, the people responsible for solving problems in “hard” real time) with rapidly solving a large array of daily problems. Our VEIS™ informs end-users about the actions they can complete to rapidly solve a large range of hard, soft, static and dynamic problems in hard real-time using the knowledge derived from previous experience.
In the next few years, SMI Corporation will take both quantitative and qualitative content and leverage it to quickly identify, authenticate, and resolve a wider range of end-user problems in “hard” real-time. End-users will leverage the problem-solving history of similar populations to predict their solution outcomes. This will enable end-users to eliminate the actions that continually generate the reoccurring problems that are archetypical of common situations. This is transformational. It introduces a new paradigm of human problem-solving that ignites a new approach to learning and development in individuals and teams. Our iAIS™ Platform transforms workplace experience. End-users move from impersonal activities into personalized, predictive, and highly rewarding problem-solving engagements. For organizations using the iSIA™ Platform, individual and team performance increases as loyalty deepens through the attainment of enhanced skills.
As a potent problem-solution framed environment, our iAIS™ environment enables end-users to emotionally connect to colleagues during digital problem-solving interactions. Through our iAIS™ Platform, SMI Corporation meets end-users where they are. Offering “self-service solutions” across channels that effortlessly deliver personalized digital conversations, end-users retain knowledge more effectively than people who use traditional coaching, consulting, and training. Moreover, as voice recognition technologies (Siri/Alexa) become commonplace in every enterprise, end-users will speak more and type less. In conversation focused on problem-solving, our iAIS™ Platform will offer a set of intelligent Solutions On-Demand™ to enable the design of conversational User Interface (UI) strategies that transform problem-solving into emotionally engaging digitally-guided experiences. Our iAIS™ Platform provides end-users five potent ways to emotionally connect to colleagues during digital problem-solving interactions:
Value a colleague’s time. The gap between Problem Definition and Problem-Solving, the time that the colleague is waiting for an answer, is eliminated. This delivers an additional opportunity for being more productive. Our iAIS™ Platform transforms problem-solving into a real-time conversation. Since problem-Solving and conversations have a beginning, middle and an end, end-users can use the iAIS™ Platform to deliver a more simple and effective conversational end-user interface. Colleagues can now use the iAIS™ Platform to break down the conversation about problem-solving at every level from Problem Definition to Problem-Solving and solution implementation.
Identify the problems more accurately. The iAIS™ Platform provides the power to collapse the time required to build Problem Definitions. Now every search, link, query, or preference becomes meaningful. No action is wasted. For the iAIS™ Platform every action becomes a clue to what end-users intend to do next in solving any problem. Using the iAIS™ rapid intelligence method, end-users receive personalized solutions to their unique problems. The Platform always knows why end-users connect to the VEIS™.
Anticipate what problems that end-users need help solving. If you work for a customer service organization, the iAIS™ Platform will proactively enable you to use your mobile device to know how to resolve a range of customer problems before they occur. If you are a sales pro, the iAIS™ Platform will enable you to use your mobile device to more rapidly understand your customer’s behavior and manage it appropriately.
Make the entire Problem-Solving experience more effective and enjoyable. Rather than making problem-solving tedious and threatening, the iAIS™ Platform delivers a mobile agent that serves as a Problem-Solving Personal Avatar. The iSIA™ can gamify problem-solving. In this way, the iAIS™ Platform can transform the emotions of the end-user.
Inspire confidence in the organization across every conflict point. The iAIS™ does not energize problem-solving for end-users alone, but it delivers rapid solutions that builds the productivity of the entire organization. The people and enterprises who love their own brands are the ones who invest in the end-to-end problem-solving capability delivered by the iAIS™ Platform. Dell, Disney, and Bank of America are the three that stand out. From supply chain to financial giant, the iAIS™ Platform brings the power of rapid problem-solving into every challenge.
Message From Ray Newkirk
Several decades ago while working on a new book, I received a phone call from a concerned manager of a company in Austin, Texas. He wanted to retain my services for several weeks to evaluate their logistics outsourcing program. This manager explained that I came highly recommended and knew that my company offered the services the manager required. So we proceeded to explore the issue more fully. Seven months earlier, the company had begun the most significant strategic program in its history. Subsequently several executives had become increasingly uneasy about the rate and direction of progress and decided to engage a high impact Consulting Specialist to get the program back on tract, the reliability path forward as they put it. This company wanted to enhance decision-making by obtaining an external source of objective information about the effectiveness of the program.
Excited about the opportunity, I accepted the engagement and the rest is history. That comapny bacame a leader in what it does because it understood the value of accurate information in decision making and the importance of leadership and organization effectiveness. Within weeks of contacting me, the company received the information it sought and responded to my recommendations by redirecting its project structure and organization design.
This project was a very complex and dynamic engagement consisting of cycles of coaching, mentoring and evaluation. The pressure to perform was intense. With a great deal at stake, the results were critical. In such difficult situations, top notch leaders find a way to succeed. In this instance, this client looked to the kind of difference our company makes in delivering effective results.
For more than 18 years, we have assisted leaders in improving organization performance and project delivery. Our programs have enabled leaders at Pacific Bell, Bank of America, and the Royal Saudi Naval Forces among others to transform and turnaround difficult projects. Our leadership, enterprise, and project audits have revealed that many leaders do not discover the true state of the situation until their project has spiraled out of control. In these cases, enlightened management may call upon the expertise of the most qualified and able consultants they can find return the troubled project back to the path of profitability.
Would you like an independent evaluation of your environment that gives you the total picture of where you are on the performance and reliability path? Would you like to discover for yourself our analysis of the situation impacting your management methods and project plans and identify the roadblocks to their implementation? Would you like to increase your leadership effectiveness and improve the performance and motivation of your organization? Would you like to obtain the leverage of a career self-renewal?
Please take a brief break from your busy schedule and read the following complementary articles about Performance, Competence, and Leadership as a way of introducing ourselves. It offers an emerging perspective on the problem of performance and the role of competence in attaining effective leadership. It is worth nothing that these articles present the rationale guiding our Strategic Management Services and suggests some key points about the Problem of Performance and how to overcome it. We hope you enjoy the articles and gain some additional insight into your profession. We look forward to contacting you.
Ray Newkirk
How Much Content Focuses on Improving Group Performance
Our Web Site address is: smirsp.com This site is our principal path for delivering our solutions and an important means of interacting with our clients and members. Entering our site, clients are encouraged to take a virtual tour of our virtual campus.
As a human capital development company, SMI is concerned about individual and group performance. We are a holistically oriented company that leverages the developments in workgroup dynamics to build bottom-line performance. Every course offered by SMI emphasizes addresses both individual and group skills.
Our Electronic Commerce Studies content provides a human capital development framework for integrating individual and group work relationships.
Our Proposal Studies content explores the proposal process as an in-depth management process from both the individual and group dimensions of performance.
Our Project Initiation Studies content examines the personal management activities and group skills that get every project on the reliability path forward.
Our Enterprise Audit Process Studies content enables individuals to reduce the weaknesses inherent in enterprise-wide initiatives and employ group interventions.
Our Feasibility Process Studies content enables individuals to better evaluate the feasibility of any proposal as a prerequisite to mobilizing innovation and change.
Our Implementation Process Studies content enables individuals to improve their level of performance during the implementation of new initiatives.
Our Validation, Verification and Testing Process Studies content enables individuals to improve the quality processes involved in an organization’s quality control activities.
Our Migration Process Studies content enables individuals and workgroups to more rapidly move from one work architecture to another.
Our Configuration Management Studies content enables individuals to better change the existing processes, structures, and/or products of group work.
Our Enterprise Development Studies content enables individuals to improve their information management activities.
Clients obtain information about our programs, gain access to our Learning Management System, subscribe to our free newsletter, enroll in a program, take a course, complete examines and receive immediate feedback, obtain learning content, take free demonstration courses, form chat rooms, obtain certificates, order products and publications, contact business administrators, join special programs, enroll in special conferences, communicate with other Clients, and many other activities by signing on to our virtual campus.
How Much Content Focuses on Professional Development
“My Content is written to integrate important related concepts and themes contained in its many programs in coaching, mentoring, management development, employee development, and executive consulting to form a single integrated path to new knowledge.” —Raymond L. Newkirk
For organizaions, Coaching is specifically a human capital development process. We focus on the development of more powerful personal management skills such as mobilizing innovation and change, managing tasks and others, communicating well, and managing self. We enable clients to build more effective work relationships while solving new and old problems.
Every course offered by SMI emphasizes the soft-skills approach to building management competence.
Our Electronic Commerce Studies content provides a human capital development framework for integrating strategic and operational work relationships.
Our Proposal Studies content explores the proposal process as an in-depth management process from both the client and vendors sides.
Our Project Initiation Studies content examines the management activities and skills that get every project on the reliability path forward.
Our Enterprise Audit Process Studies content enables management to determine the weaknesses in each enterprise wide program and design remedial interventions.
Our Feasibility Process Studies content enables management to better determine the feasibility of any proposal.
Our Implementation Process Studies content enables management to improve the way it implements new initiatives.
Our Validation, Verification and Testing Process Studies content enables management to improve the management processes involved in an organization’s quality control activities.
Our Migration Process Studies content enables management to optimize the processes involved in moving from one work architecture to another.
Our Configuration Management Studies content enables management to better control changes to existing processes, structures, workgroups, and/or products.
Our Enterprise Development Studies content enables management to execute all activities concerning the movement, management, and control of management related information.
“My content offers a data mining and knowledge building strategy by linking seemingly unrelated topics to provide new insight. Clients will learn something new by integrating disparate knowledge to form new insight for practice. Finally, clients will be able to test their new knowledge by applying it in their own settings.” —Raymond L. Newkirk
How Much Content Focuses on Management Skills
I have included Action Assignments to encourage clients to rapidly transfer knowledge into practice in their immediate environments.
I am not specifically a management training Coach. Rather we are a learning company that offers education in the development of more powerful management skills such as managing work relationships, managing tasks, and managing others involved in quality assurance and control, configuration management, and project management functions.
Every course offered by SMI emphasizes the soft-skills approach to building management competence.
Our Electronic Commerce Studies content provides a management framework for integrating the strategic and operational management functions of the workplace.
Our Proposal Studies content explores the proposal process as an in-depth management process from both the client and vendors sides.
Our Project Initiation Studies content examines the management activities and skills that get every project on the reliability path forward.
Our Enterprise Audit Process Studies content enables management to determine the weaknesses in each enterprise wide program and design remedial interventions.
Our Feasibility Process Studies content enables management to better determine the feasibility of any proposal.
Our Implementation Process Studies content enables management to improve the way it implements new initiatives.
Our Validation, Verification and Testing Process Studies content enables management to improve the management processes involved in an organization’s quality control activities.
Our Migration Process Studies content enables management to optimize the processes involved in moving from one work architecture to another.
Our Configuration Management Studies content enables management to better control changes to existing processes, structures, workgroups, and/or products.
Our Enterprise Development Studies content enables management to execute all activities concerning the movement, management, and control of management related information.
We have included Applications Models to indicate how others have previously employed the learning content in their situations and to provide a baseline of performance.
Why Clients Value Applied Intuitive Solutions™
Putting Mobile Problem-Solving on a Business Basis
Unresolved Problems are much more than mere frustrations. They are impediments to business success. Business is not an obstacle course where the speediest hurdler wins the race. Business success does not demand out-of-breath competitors. It demands smart and skillful architects of the future.
Systems Management Institute reinvents the problem-solving experience. Through the power of our Applied Intuitive Solutions™ (AIS™), the focus shifts from Coaching, Consulting and Training (CC&T) to rapid problem solving. We designed our AIS™ to accelerate enterprise success. In shifting the focus from CC&T to solutions, Systems Management Institute puts virtual problem-solving on a business basis. We ensure that problem-solving is enduring. Fundamentally, Virtual Problem-Solving must be Intuitive to succeed. In the workplace, the AIS™ must be business, mission, and reliability oriented.
Our Business Advantage
Systems Management Institute offers soft & hard-skills problem-solving support that saves organizations millions of dollars through the elimination of up-front sunk costs. For corporate clients, we are a quicker, simpler, more responsive, effective, efficient, and less expensive problem-solving (and skills acquisition) business partner. Our virtual, mobile, problem-solving process employs specially derived Virtual Intelligence and delivery technology to leverage the power of the Internet 24X7 to provide attractive cost to profit ratios and ROI in problem-solving, skills transformation, and Business Value Realization.
Seeking the optimal ROI Ifor our clients, Systems Management Institute has aggressively implemented its proprietary repository of Virtual Solutions. Empowered by state-of-the-art information technologies, we deliver a potent problem-solving environment as a framework for our mobile solution delivery architecture without disrupting client operations. With a simple command, clients gain entry into the new reality of Deep Technology problem-solving. After 50 years of development, it is here today. Technology has finally met the vision. Visit us at www.smirsp.com or phone (407) 864-7756.
Solving Your Problems Is What We Do.
Raymond L. Newkirk, Founder & CEO
Systems Management Institute (SMI) is a Virtual Solutions company. We solve your most pressing workplace problems 24X7. Delivered through our Virtual Expert Intelligence System™ (VEIS™), clients from more than 20 industries have successfully used our Applied Intuitive Solutions™ to resolve critical situations for more than 50 categories of problems. Success is not hidden in your stars. It emerges from achieving enduring solutions to complex challenges. Visit Systems Management Institute to learn more. www.smirsp.com. Call (407) 864-7756
Applied Intuitive Solutions™ Skills Development and Virtual Learning
Today, E-learning is used in organizations or every size and shape. E-Learning is commonplace in high-schools, colleges, universities, research centers, and governments. All of them are pretty much the same, and have been since their introduction. We should know because in Silicon Valley, we built the first ever for-profit, E-Learning company in the country. We differed from every other company in that we saw no real need for the expensive LMS that organizations were running to adopt and pay large sum to license. Our model was simple. If you had Internet Access, you could access us. Wherever you are, we were there with you. We were your consultant in a PC or a laptop. Whatever you learned today, you could use today. This was a long time ago. The world went the other way.
Do you know that E-Learning systems are probably the least popular systems in organizations today? Surprising right? What do you really get for all that money? You pay for the system, and then you need to pay for the content. Ouch. We did a lot or research and learned that people really want real-time solutions to a vast number of problems. Online content is not really good in this. A Goggle search does not generally provide this kind of focused content. This kind of learning content requires a set of standards that are difficult to meet. It took us many decades to do this because the content has to have global usefulness.
Every one of our courses is designed to solve a specific problem by answering a “How to” kind of query. You ask a question such as: “How Can I build the confidence of my team?” This is difficult, but can be done. Our system then delivers a course that teaches you exactly how to do this using evidence based practice, not theoretical debate. You receive an actual brief but potent course that teaches you how to resolve this and millions of challenges rapidly. You master a new skill and solve a problem simultaneously. You become a master at “changing how the world solves problems” by changing “how you rapidly build new skills”. You and the world become connected in more potent way. Changing the world and changing oneself all for one price. Amazing! It has taken many, many years to develop this technology and derive the many thousands of courses. We have solutions for 270 Focus Areas, 88 industries, and for individuals, teams, entire enterprises, and government organizations. The only downside to our environment is that our AIS™ Portal delivers a new kind of learning the sharply reduces the need for consultants and coaches. Unfortunately, you will find yourself spending less money on them. On the bright side, our system is completely mobile. You can access it 24X7 from anywhere you have Internet service. We are your mobile expert via PC, Lap Top, or whatever. We will soon be multi-media, and multi-language. Genius is only a click away.
Applied Intuitive Solutions™
Five Decades in Development. Changing How the World Solves Problems
Systems Management Institute
Raymond L. Newkirk, Psy.D., Ph.D., Ph.D. Founder & CEO
The Unexpected Problem! The very thought of it leaves a bitter taste. It creates a surge of adrenaline through your body. In organizations, “The Unexpected” is to be feared. True, it can be good or bad. In the workplace, however, “The Unexpected” is normally terrible news. Think about it yourself. Consider this: You are anxious to get out of the office on a Friday evening for an unusually important and long-planned social event. As you close your office door, a colleague runs up and unloads “The Unexpected,” a problem that needs an immediate solution. What kind of emotion does this raise in you? Do you think: “This is a wonderful treat, the joy of The Unexpected? How delightful!” Then you hear that no one knows what to do.
There you have it: The kind of problem that consultants dream about. “The Unexpected” lives up to its reputation once again. And so it goes. You have reason to fear it. History is not on your side. “The Unexpected” means pain, real pain, imagined or real. The problem for you, however, is that it is Friday night and you cannot call a consultant until next week. Can you feel your frustration building? You had a great evening planned, until now. True, no one may know what to do, but what you do know is plenty, none of it good. You know that the solution has to be evidence-based because it has to work rapidly. The solution cannot be an experiment or even a good guess as Commander Spock would say. The solution has to offer a path to success, now. Are you feeling it, “The Unexpected”, the Adrenalin rush of fear? You can taste it. Then the thought occurs: “No one in the organization can produce the right solution on such short notice.” This is rarely possible.
Not until now. With our A.I.S™ Platform, your entire organization can produce the right solution rapidly, even with short notice. At A.I.S™, “The Problem” raises great excitement. It ignites our creativity. The A.I.S™ Platform transforms problems into new opportunities every day. Great problems give substance to my vision of creating rapid solutions. Time and time again, I had become the consultant of last resort. When nothing worked, call Ray Newkirk. He is the “have solution, will travel” guy. Consulting carried me all over the world and gave evidence to the power of rapid solutions. Everyone wanted solutions yesterday. Clients trusted me to solve an impressive list of problems. Some of them changed history in a big way. I contributed to the emergence of new industry models such as Business Process Management in the Netherlands, Healthcare, Global Banking, Logistics, Computer Integration in the USA, and Defense Systems in the Middle East. A few billion dollar companies can attest to this. These experiences validated my vision. I learned that life is more complex than people recognize.
For many decades, managers, and the teams who support them, have dreamed about the powerful advantage of virtual problem-solving. For all of their promise, computers often complicated the workplace by introducing new layers of technology that few people understood. As the use of computers spread, the discomfort of end-users spread exponentially. Many organizations found themselves in a new kind of race as technology multiplied the number of problems that people faced inside and outside the company. Problems became so numerous that their solutions had to be classified. They had to be hard and soft, simple and complex, dynamic and static, and anything in between. Problems and their solutions now existed along a continuum that included many problem types. Technology had changed the landscape of business and the landscape of the entire world. Technology had indeed become a double–edged sword. If technology got us into this mess, can we use technology to get us out?
Early in my career, I envisioned a time when technology would change how the world solves problems. I recognized that computers had to become more powerful and mobile so that people could communicate instantly regardless of the distances involved. I knew that the day would come when problem-solving had to take the giant leap forward, one big leap for humankind. That day is now. After nurturing this vision for more than five decades, so you didn’t have to, the technology has finally arrived to “change how the world solves problems.” That technology belongs to A.I.S™ Corp. I invite you to join me in simplifying your life. Adopt our A.I.S™ Intelligent Assistant today.
Human beings live in two realties: problems and solutions. Let me be clear: Only two overriding realities exist: (1) Human beings live in a problem-filled world, and (2) Everything in life is a problem: From the time we get out of bed in the morning until the time we turn in for the evening, we move from one problem to the next. Human life is a two-sided coin. One side is problem generation; the other solution generation. Every day we generate problems and we solve them. This is what human beings do. This is how we build the stories of our lives. We are mess making experts. We do it every day with no help required. Unfortunately, we are not as gifted solving the problems that we generate so effortlessly. We are only good at solving problems when we have a lot of help from our friends. Can’t we do better than this?
It All Started When We Wanted To Do More for Clients
Historically, the quest to build productive and successful business partnerships has been challenging. Start-ups and emerging companies rapidly become overwhelmed by the up-hill battle to forge productive partnerships. Since these kinds of adventures often begin as meaningful connections, people have to know something about the “ins and outs” of nurturing meaningful connections.
Business Partnerships “ain’t for sissies“.
While some people refer to meaningful connections as the means of connecting such as letters, phone calls, emails, texts, web page contacts, information exchanges, and social media posts, I prefer to get right to the point. Meaningful connections really are all about the instances of human interaction that led to meaningful outcomes, regardless of the medium. The best meaningful connections occur when human beings actually do something together that produces a meaningful outcome. Now this is what meaningful connections are all about, regardless of the tools and technologies used to link the people who have experienced the shared experience that energized the connection.
On the surface, the task to form meaningful connections appears as quite basic. In business, sellers make meaningful connections when they find buyers for their products and buyers make meaningful connections when they find sellers of the products or services they desire. Things become more complicated when people look for other people to work with as partners in a joint relationship through which two partners jointly deliver shared services to the same customer.
Meaningful connections are particularly important to Systems Management Institute because we view clients both as buyers and as suppliers. Since our clients become AIS™ Platform Residents, our HSaaS Platform changes the historical business model. In this way, Platform Residents become co-developers of our strategic mission to change how the world solves problems. Our Platform connects multiple teams with shared problems to generate solutions using a stress-free business problem-solving platform.
For Clients:
The client management team gains a single location to manage solution requests for business goals.
Platform Residents easily research solutions of interest, tag favorites, and create saved lists of special solutions.
The Client Review Process assists clients with deepening knowledge about problem-solving and end-user experience
For Systems Management Institute:
Stands out with the right combination of solutions in the right place at the right time when decision makers need our services.
Clients can open an account for free and then select from different pricing models to build their presence.
Send solutions to colleagues to start building project relationships.
Use demand data to identify the most pertinent solutions by project.
We Were First
We are the only virtual solutions company with a mission to build employee and workplace performance by offering Internet delivered programs produced from actual workplace derived consulting experience.” —Ray Newkirk
We are the first to use actual consulting content as the foundation for learning content.
We are the to put intellectual capital on a business basis by seeking to add business value through learning.
We are the first company created by consultants and business executives with first-hand understanding of the shortcomings of corporate training and academic education.
We are the first to identify the bases of competence using the input of corporate, business, and academic leaders.
We are the first to provide learning content designed for immediate application.
We are the first to focus of the rediscovery of the lost skills that were essential in building many of the great successes of the past in business, industry, and government.
We are the first to enable corporate training organizations to reduce their learning systems cost throughout the entire training life cycle.
We are the first to use a human systems approach to simplify the learning environment by linking all the skills of an enterprise from the lowest to the highest levels, from the individual rank and file employee to Corporate Director.
We are the first to develop the powerful Internet Assistant Action Learning (IAAL) approach to virtual learning.
We are the first to use a holistic approach to develop the entire person by building the professional abilities, core competencies, and workplace performance of individuals and then providing a conceptual foundation for excelling in these abilities.
We are the first to transform experience gained in the workplace into a real-time, online reservoir of professional knowledge and work-practice models.
We are the first to address the needs of individual workgroups for soft-skills specific and practical success-oriented knowledge.
We are the first to support the entire work life cycle from project initiation to implementation management and from Electronic Commerce to Enterprise Design.
We are the first to focus on building holistic competence in the work/task environment to make life easier for employees and employers.
We are the first evidence-based solutions company to build our reputation by focusing on the development of competent individuals and the improvement of performance across all organizations - strategic, tactical, and operational.
“Our perspective emphasizes the unique capabilities of performance in each person, in each organization, and in every manager and executive.”
—Ray Newkirk
Professional Development
Dr. Newkirk means something special by "Professional Development". He means an independent, life-long program of self-paced study of relevant, practical, and specialized, problem-solving content. Dr. Newkirk finds the following program intensive enough to begin the rapid development of a clients professional capacities:
Identify 1st 100 problems to be resolved.
Identify pilot problems and solutions.
Master One New Solution Plan Per Week.
The independent program has the following characteristics:
Based on an appropriate core workplace competency;
Requires adequate preparation;
Requires a background which integrates life experience and self-reflection, assuming intellectual and personal maturity, and
Demands committed effort upon the industry, initiative, and scholarship of the client.
The Ray Newkirk Coaching Opportunity
The Founder & CEO of SMI Corporation fully grasps the business value of this vision and the history of its evolution. Understanding the value of the goal of TRIZ and associated approaches like Case Based Reasoning, SMI Corporation has carved out a unique path to problem solving success. Beginning more than 50 years ago, Dr. Newkirk has extended and further refined the vision of rapid problem solving begun more than 60 years ago. The development of our Deep Intelligence Technology™ is the culmination of our efforts. Beyond the capacities of any previous efforts, SMI Corporation has developed a potent paradigm of rapid problem solving that enables every organization, executive, manager, and employee to attain an evidence-based solution instantly. When compared to previous methods of problem-solving, we deliver solutions 20,000 times quicker. Moreover, our solutions are beyond theoretical and work as intended.
While one may choose to suggest that Problem Solving is our product sector, this would not really describe what we deliver. SMI Corporation offers a Deep Intelligence Technology™ that dramatically enhances a client’s ability to more rapidly solve many of the problems that impact their lives in and outside the workplace. Moreover, we deliver this capability 24X7 anywhere via a mobile or other device. Our product sector more realistically cuts across many separate industries including consulting, coaching, training, development, and E-Learning. We actually change, in a very radical and comfortable way, every industry we serve. We are a new paradigm of problem solving that exceeds the capacity of current systems and methods.
Every company and every person can benefit from the rapid problem solving content of SMI Corporation. The current challenge for us is to let organizations know that we are there for them. We can then assist them with becoming a Resident of our Deep Intelligence Technology™ Platform. It has taken us years to get to this point of development and many millions of dollars. Now we need a good funding partner to accelerate market entry.
Our Product Sector: Digitally Enabled Rapid Problem Solving & Skills Development
Effective Business Relationships
Effective Business Relationships (EBR) is an important industry initiative conceived to improve core business processes and pass savings to consumers. But EBR alone is insufficient to help you navigate through the difficult and volatile times of hypercompetitive era.
Systems Management Institute (SMI) is concerned about competition and what it means to virtual commerce business partners. If it is true that “the rule today is that there are no rules,” what does that mean if you are banking on virtual commerce to sustain competitive advantage? To advance the vision of EBR in today’s hypercompetitive world, SMI announces Vision 21™, the product to master virtual commerce. While the focus of virtual commerce is efficiency, EBR via Vision 21™ concentrates of effectiveness. In a hypercompetitive world, we don’t want to do the wrong things right. We designed Vision 21™ to minimize the risks in virtual commerce by helping you the right things right.
Vision 21™ is a powerful interactive tool that empowers all levels of your organization.
For Executives, Vision 21™ provides a Best Practices Requirements Models that integrates each level into your company. This Requirements Model both demonstrates what you must do to gain the full potential of virtual commerce, step by step, and provides a mechanism for managing the transition process demanded by the forces of hypercompetition. Vision 21™ is your tool to establish Effective Business Relationships and helps you gauge the bottom line immediately before you commit resources to virtual commerce.
For Information Systems Managers, Vision 21™ identifies the prerequisites for succeeding in virtual commerce including technologies, project plans, and dependencies. Vision 21™ provides a detailed and integrated virtual commerce methodology that is available, module by module, starting with the virtual commerce best practices model as the foundation.
For End-Users, Vision 21 provides a process for participating with technical groups while redesigning processes or workflows. Vision 21 is the linking pin process that integrates the business requirements of end-users with the enabling capabilities of Information Technology. Additionally, Vision 2™1 bridges end-users with both executives and technologists to provide a coherent model of the organization.
For Everyone, Vision 21™ provides integrated plans, models, and action programs to clarify the expectation of each person and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from one group in the company to another.
