Thought Leadership Education Program for Learning Organizations

The Goal of Knowledge & Innovation Management

Explanation Age Knowledge Economy Learning Matrix

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Organizations today understand that they are either becoming Thought Leaders, or they are becoming obsolete.

Continuous Improvement in the knowledge-driven enterprise requires going beyond the old 1-dimensional view of organizational learning (novice-to-expert).

The Explanation Age Method of managing knowledge and innovation is based on models of learning that produce Thought Leaders, not just Experts.

Presentations and Workshops

For Business Leaders

Pioneers: The Thought Trails of Thought Leadership
Structured Thinking: Careful the Structure You Choose To Think From
Learning Organizations: Moving From Buzzword To Business Methodology
Performance Improvement: Transforming Operations from Simplicity to Elegance

Decision Transparency: Collaborative Decision Making with Transparency
Strategic Planning: How the Knowledge Economy has outdated Six-Sigma, Risk Management, and Innovation as Separate Processes

For Education Leaders

Designing Education - Not Instruction: How the Knowledge Economy has outdated ADDIE and Bloom's Taxonomy
Questioning Skills: Why Creativity and Critical Thinking are Not Enough

For Technology Leaders

Enough Information: The Information Age is Not Sustainable
Social Tools for WHY: Catching Up to the Tools for Who, Where, and When

Benefits of Explanation Age™ Methods

Strategic Decisions – supports sense-making, not box-checking
Transparency – provides access to thought process and reasons
Collaborative – facilitates collaboration and reduces groupthink
Conflict Resolution – provides shared framework and language
Ethics – requires balancing control with compliance and respect
Innovation – provides proper questioning patterns for ideation
Proficiency – transforms operations from simplicity to elegance

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2012 Events

February 21 – Second Edition of The Explanation Age available on Amazon.com
March 24 – Virginia Festival of the Book – Book Fair, Omni Charlottesville Hotel
March 31 – Presenter at AI Conversational Systems “Chatbot” Conference, Philadelphia, PA – “The Explanation Architecture for General Intelligence”
April 3 – Guest Lecturer at The College of William & Mary - School of Business, Williamsburg, VA
April 3 – Co-facilitator of Webinar to establish common curriculum for a world-wide Knowledge Management Academic Discipline, with Kent State University and George Washington University
April 29 – Radio Interview with IMI TechTalk show on KFNX 1100
September 27 – Guest Lecturer at The College of William & Mary - School of Business, Williamsburg, VA
November 2 – Presenting “Thought Leader” session at the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) Annual Conference, Toronto
Fall Semester – Knowledge Management Faculty Associate, Kent State University, teaching Organizational Learning
December 17 – Knowledge Sciences Global Thought Leaders Retreat, Mountain Quest Institute, WV

The Book
The Explanation Age

“An iconoclast’s blueprint for a new era of innovation.” – Kirkus Reviews
Four Stars! “The Explanation Age presents a perspective on learning and reasoning that may indeed be a breakthrough.” – Barry Silverstein for ForeWord Clarion Reviews
“Worth the effort to understand the importance of what Dr. Lewis is saying.” – Henry Holtzman for Inland Empire Business Journal

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“Lewis poses the tantalizing proposition that poor results in education, innovation and policy-making are rooted in a breakdown between the rational mind and the fundamental models that govern institutions.” – Kirkus Discoveries
“In The Explanation Age, Dr. Lewis lays the groundwork for defining how we will interact with our world over the next 100 years. As societal problems grow more complex and entangled, the global impact of our decisions intensifies. Yet our sound-bite mentality continues to lead us in the wrong direction. Lewis’ framework gives us hope for reversing this trend, and grounding our decision making in sound reasoning.”
— Dr. Art Murray, CEO Applied Knowledge Sciences, Inc. and Co-Director, Enterprise of the Future Program, The George Washington University Institute for Knowledge and Innovation

Read the KM World article about The Explanation Age

Listen to the "IMI TechTalk" radio interview on KFNX
(11 minutes in)

Watch the Chatbots 3.2 Conference AI presentation
(Part 1) (Part 2)