Frequently Asked Questions

The agreed-upon processes within an industry for accomplishing particular outcomes.

the neurological process of acquiring, judging, organizing, storing, retrieving, and reasoning with the knowledge gained through human interpretive intelligence; life experience, enculturation, education, deep analytical thought.

Conscious understanding and use of disambiguated concepts (context, meaning, and purpose), thought schemas (universal patterns-of-thought), cognitive and explicit ontological expressions, and how mediating relationships work to promote critical thinking and problem solving skills.

An inductive (specific to the general) analysis of the thought processes that underlie the development, implementation, and application of ideas, products, and services.  Cognitive task functions are “second nature” and transparent to people once they are learned.  As a general rule Subject Matter Experts, management, and operational personnel typically leave out 50%-70% of the cognitive knowledge related to their expertise when sharing or transferring their knowledge to others.

Technologies that seek to mimic the thought processes of the human brain.

A cognitive technology that is designed to interact with users on a conceptual level versus just a word level. IQxCloud digitally represents and conveys  the underlying conceptual structures that gives words, symbols, or phrases their context, eaning, amd purpose. When words represent multiple concepts, such as the word “spring,” each underlying concept is disambiguated according to its unique context, meaning, and purpose.  Once a word’s underlying concept(s) have been disambiguated and digitized, these contextualized words can be used to represent simple to complex knowledge.

Coordinated activity of identifying where the cognitive and explicit knowledge of an organization exists, and how that knowledge flows through the organization to optimize goals and objectives.  KM is concerned with corporate cultures, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and the alignment of talent, knowledge, and skills with functions and tasks.  KM is an umbrella term that includes change management, training and development, learning and development, eLearning, eMentoring, Lean/continuous improvement, and ISO Quality Management Systems.

Firm-specific human capital for gaining competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Man-made, rule-based reasoning systems requiring binary true/false, yes/no verification.  Logic requires self-consistency and looks for self-consistent answers.  Linguistics and general mathematics are based on rules and axiomatic assertions.   Most programming languages are based on logic as demonstrated by algorithms which are designed to execute self-consistent, repetitious, functions and tasks.

A cognitive thought or explicit representation, that embodies context, meaning, purpose, especially with a point-of-view.

The individual and aggregate value of an organization’s “how, why, and what-if” workforce knowledge.  Organizational knowledge is mostly cognitive.  It is the intelligence that underlies the organizational structures, functions, procedures, tasks, and processes that employees, partners, suppliers and customers need to accomplish personal and organizational goals and objectives.  This organizational knowledge gives data/information its context, meaning, and purpose.  Cognitive knowledge = 85%, Data/Information = 15% of the knowledge equation.

Innate human reasoning.  Purposeful, imaginative, goal-oriented reasoning processes that solve problems or predicts impacts, outcomes, and consequences.  Rational thought considers known variables (dependencies, contingencies, cross-references, causal relationships, etc.), and points-of-view, that argue for or against something.  Rational thought solves problems, is used for planning and general human-to-human interactions.  It gives the facts associated with situations and circumstances their context, meaning, and purpose. 

Templates from SMEs

A person who knows a lot about a particular subject.

Cognitive frameworks that enable rational and logical cognitive processes to occur between people regardless of language or culture.  Common thought schemas include sets, flows,, compositions, taxonomies, sequences, and choice.  Thought schemas are foundational to IQxCloud human-machine concept-driven interactivity.