Applied Research
Content X Management
Content X Management
Starting in 2010, Gnostyx Research has pursued a range of research undertakings in such areas of interest as the emergence and evolution of digital content technologies, the adoption of sound practices of management, governance and accountability, the rise and impact of latest manifestations of content-informed artificial intelligence, the facilitation and management of large-scale digital transformation initiatives, and the progressive understanding of how all of these elements can be made to interact constructively together to achieve sustainable, and desirable, outcomes.
Gnostyx pursues its research goals using a variety of means. These means include performing advisory client engagements, managing technology innovation projects, conducting academic research undertakings, participating in industry events, contributing to international standards, and pursuing publishing endeavours.
Broad Experience
Gnostyx is grounded in decades of practical experience managing organizations, development teams, intellectual property portfolios, and technology innovations, and collaborating with customers & partners all over the world.
Broad Knowledge
Gnostyx draws upon diverse knowledge disciplines including technology design, management practices, service innovation, content management and publishing, and the study of literature, history, philosophy, and the social sciences as they bear upon the foregoing.
Broad Network
Gnostyx maintains active connections with leading technology providers, software developers, consultants, academics, standards bodies, and industry consortia, allowing it to draw upon the best knowledge & skills available in its domain.
ADAPTABILITY
Ability to gracefully adapt to changing environments while maximizing service availability
RESILIENCE
Ability to withstand immediate shocks and foundational shifts, and to build strength from adversity
ACCOUNTABILITY
Willingness to be clear with stakeholders and to adhere to all commitments made
SUSTAINABILITY
Determination to minimize negative external impacts as well as internal waste while remaining operational
PRODUCTIVITY
The drive towards maximizing the returns realized on investments of effort, time, knowledge, and hope
SCALABILITY
Ability to scale gracefully in the face of escalating demands and proliferating integration touchpoints
In support of its research agenda, Gnostyx embraces opportunities to help organizations:
Starting in 2010, Gnostyx has been extracting lessons learned from numerous service engagements, some short and intense, and some that have run over many years. These projects include enabling government online services, publishing interactive health information, feeding content to automated chatbots and voice assistants, introducing smart work instructions into digital lean manufacturing processes, acquiring industrial-grade content management platforms for global enterprises, articulating architectural frameworks for integrating semantic technologies into content solutions, and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities that are grounded in, and controlled by, organizational expressions of knowledge and intent.
Complementary lessons have been drawn from concurrent academic ventures including tailoring a research instrument for studying cultural dynamics within technology acquisition initiatives (and publishing the results in a peer-reviewed academic journal), supporting a major digital humanities project for the University of Oxford, developing a reference data set (used for demonstrations and testing) for an international open information standard, and operating a virtual community platform for a global management education and development program.
Highlighted below are some of the research projects that are currently underway. Some of these are being pursued as commercial engagements, some as academic collaborations, and some as publishing endeavours.
Engineering Content: Addressing the growing need for large-scale integrated engineering capabilities through the introduction of proven methods and mechanisms for creating, evolving, exchanging, and leveraging system design knowledge.
Content 4.0: Establishing a framework for understanding the different states at which content and content technologies can operate, and for elevating content to the level of an enterprise asset.
Articulate Systems: Establishing a framework for the design, implementation, and management of systems so that they efficiently and effectively leverage articulated knowledge (knowledge that has been articulated in a way optimized for its management, utilization, and evolution).
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Implementing effective AI solutions grounded in decades of experience leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies and techniques in ways that simultaneously tap into the opportunities while controlling the attendant risks.
Virtual Learning Communities: Experimenting with virtual community platforms, together with supporting text analytics software, to improve how organizations arrive at, sustain, and evolve organizational expressions of intent, and enriching how management education and development is conducted and made more impactful.
OPA: Refine and apply a modelling technique (Object Process Actor - OPA) optimized for representing organizations, processes, and responsibilities, and well-suited to modelling large-scale engineering environments as well as digital content solutions.
Management and Content: Studying how the practice of management is being positively impacted by the emergence of a new generation of AI-enabled digital content technologies.
Technology Acquisition: Reviving best practices in how organizations acquire new technologies, something that has been growing in importance just as key past lessons seem to have been forgotten.