The Explanation Age

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The Goal of Knowledge & Innovation Management

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).

Explanation Age Leadership Methods are based on models of learning that produce Thought Leaders, not just Experts.

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

Presentations and Consulting / Workshops

For Business Leaders

The Learning "S-Curve": Designing Organizations for Thought Leadership
Powerful Questions: Putting the Framework-Question Theory into Action
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Strategic Planning: How the Knowledge Economy has outdated Six-Sigma, Risk Management, and Innovation as Separate Processes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Designing Education - Not Instruction: How the Knowledge Economy has outdated ADDIE and Bloom's Taxonomy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
The Tyranny of the Testers: Why the Models are More Important than the Measurements

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

The Book
The Explanation Age

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“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