Kai Neumann
Let us make the world a better place and advance human kind through a culture of reflexion.
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Solution: A healthy environment on earth
A model exploring the challenge of less pollution This model is part of a series of models that could serve as examples for small models on global challenges as they could be modeled by pupils. Of course, depending on their age and the time that is available as well as the help you offer they could come up with more details. What is the model asking?The model asks for the measures for a healthier environment using the KNOW WHY Questions from the KNOW WHY Method as they show up when we use the iMODELER. It starts with the different forms of pollution and then continues to reflect on their underlying reasons. Interestingly it turns out that the underlying reasons are rather psychological. The Insight Matrices ...»
Solution: Wars on earth
A model explaining the common reasons for wars on earth This model is part of a series of models that could serve as examples for small models on global challenges as they could be modeled by pupils. Of course, depending on their age and the time that is available as well as the help you offer they could come up with more details. What is the model asking?The model asks seemingly naively for the reasons for wars in the world using the KNOW WHY Questions from the KNOW WHY Method as they show up when we use the iMODELER. When we continue to ask what leads to it and what can be done we will see the importance of some economical and some psychological factors. Pupils should be at least 10 years old. Time10 years ...»
Solution: Where does my parent's money come from?
A model explaining the basic logic of money flows This model is part of a series of models that could serve as examples for small models on global challenges as they could be modeled by pupils. Of course, depending on their age and the time that is available as well as the help you offer they could come up with more details. What is the model asking?The model asks for the origin of the money in our pockets (using the KNOW WHY Questions from the KNOW WHY Method as they show up when we use the iMODELER). When we continue to ask where it comes from we will finally realize the closed loops the flow of money forms, even if we include the creation of (fiat) money by central banks. As a very basic model it is possi ...»
Solution: Where do our vegetables come from
A model explaining the basic loops of agriculture This model is part of a series of models that could serve as examples for small models on global challenges as they could be modeled by pupils. Of course, depending on their age and the time that is available as well as the help you offer they could come up with more details. What is the model asking?The model asks for the sustainability of farming using the KNOW WHY Questions from the KNOW WHY Method as they show up when we use the iMODELER. When we continue to ask where our vegetables depend on we will finally realize the need to close loops and to change our hapits. As a very basic model it is possible to model this topic with six years old children provid ...»
Being successful through a new culture of reflexion
A small qualitative model not just to show the importance of the iMODELER's main features. It also shows how to change one's organization's culture to a culture of regular reflexion of interconnections against a number of psychological obstacles. For more background information I recommend from Apple's iTunes Store the interactive ibook "KNOW WHY and the iMODELER" with many models and exercises. Note: a few factors have a quantitative formula. This is fake. I put them there to create the quantitative screenshots in the presenter for illustration purposes. Sorry :-)
The economy and why the rich need the poor
The motivation for the model: A number of question arose from several threads on LinkedIn, within projects for the Federal Environmental Agency and from my discussions on a banking congress. The question always was whether rich people need the poor people, whether poor people should get more with benefit for the rich people, whether more sustainability makes everything more expensive or whether environmental costs and the rising costs of resources harm the economy at all. As my mental models on these questions stem from a number of different models I thought it would be time to put them to test in a new, qualitative and maybe even quantitative model. The result is a yet simple model looking at two kind of peo ...»
Comprehensive Enterprise Model
This is just a fictious case of an enterprise to show how it can be comprehensively modeled. Not only the weightings should differ from case to case but also more concrete factors should be added, e.g the concrete competitors, the features of the products and their impact onto the customer's feeling of integration and development, the potential market expansion etc.. For a possible quantification and a BSC it should be checked whether all measures and decisions impact measurable factors. Also a lot soft factors like informal communication, intaction with customers, the concrete ways to let the staff feel integration and development, etc. should also be added.