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Oil: In the DNA of the Silicon Valley

July 11, 2019

When discussing the likelihood of

Celebrate Your Independence: Taking Charge of Your Career

July 4, 2019

Today, my country celebrates its

Brand Your Digital Oilfield Culture: Internalize Its Transformation

June 27, 2019

Our recent article, “The Digital

What Lies Beneath the Surface of Your Organization: Structural Dynamics?

June 15, 2019

As the officers, seamen and

Home Improvement Case Study: What’s the Value Proposition of Service Providers and Why Does It Matter to My Business?

May 14, 2019

This blog is focused on

Systemic Reasoning Errors: Stink’en Think’en

April 28, 2019

The April 13-14, 2019 edition

Elevator: Going Up or Going Down?

April 28, 2019

True Story! A couple of

Event Horizon: Towards Singularity

April 25, 2019

This month a group of

I Hate These Things: Why Does This Always Happen to Me?

April 7, 2019

We have long argued that

You Have 10 Minutes: Maybe

April 1, 2019

Over the past couple of

The Old Order Changeth . . . Knowledge Delivery 21st Century Style

March 29, 2019

My apologies to Alfred Lord

Human—Machine Interface in the Age of Digitalization: Can the Machine be Trusted and When Should the Human Intervene?

March 24, 2019

On March 10, 2019 the

Operational Complexity: Risk Model Insufficiency

March 8, 2019

Most readers will be familiar

Decision Making in the Digitalization Age: Who Decides?

March 5, 2019

“Ergonomics (or Human Factors) is

Fleeting Success: In Pursuit of Sustainability

February 14, 2019

Winston Churchill is credited with

Three Years—Ten Months: How did they do it?

February 4, 2019

The United States officially entered

Nuclear physicists define the term, “critical mass” as the amount of fissile material whereby a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining. From that original definition, the construct is further developed along societal and political terms as a function of the environment and number of adopters and their interdependencies that create enough of a consensus for individual actions that sustains an undertaking.

In 1996, the author published the first of several case studies on a societal interaction model based on the Relationships, Behaviors and Conditions (RBC) construct among economic actors. Previously the model was only in the domain of academia.

This blog addresses contemporary issues from the RBC perspective and whether in the present state they are sustainable or not. Many readers may be familiar with the “Innovation Adoption Curve.” RBC seeks to enlighten the causality of behaviors that cause movement towards the critical mass that generates movement along this diffusion curve.