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Applied Intuitive Solutions™

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, and expected. True, it can be good or bad. In the workplace, however, “The Unexpected” is normally terrible news. Think about it.

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 the bad news. 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 and real. The problem for you, however, is complex. It is Friday night, you just got paid, you have important plans with family and friends, and, of course, you cannot call a consultant until next week. You can’t believe the luck.

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 present 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 the A.I.S™ Platform, your entire organization can produce the right solution rapidly, even with such short notice.

For some of us, because of the A.I.S™, the "Problem” raises great interest and 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 of Rapid Problem-Solving. I learned that life is more complex than many people yet 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. People came to see them as 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 and solution types. Technology had changed the landscape of business and the landscape of the entire world. Technology had indeed become a double–edged sword. So naturally the question arose: If technology got us into this mess, can we use technology to get us out? 

Early in my career, in the 1960s, 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 and their location. 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 the A.I.S™ enviornment. 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. We all are problem navigators. 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? The answer, of course, is yes we can, and we do.

It All Started When We Wanted To Do More for Leaders.

Leadership Mastery introduces us to many new and wonderful places within ourselves. We will see things that we never saw before and we will understand things that we never thought about before. The secret is to keep everything in balance because we want to increase our integrity and gentleness as we learn o become “Masterful Leaders”. —Ray Newkirk