Possession of Competitive Advantage

The possession of competitive advantage emerges at rich conceptual environments where the structure allows for both figurative and verbal expression at a high speed.

One way of achieving this is using taograms, artifacts produced by practicing the Taogram System.

Structurization, Personalization, Integration

The three main aspects of information management with Taogram System are:

structurization - like context-enriched Semantic Web;

personalization - like Mind Mapping that produces maps of both the domain and the personality of the mapper him/herself;

integration - like Web 2.0 mashups, just without the Web.

Strategy and Self-Awareness

Tactical processes converge towards the goal.

Strategic processes diverge in terms of goals but converge in terms of the strategist's self-awareness.

Influence, Synergy and Aggregation

Taogram System practitioners distinguish three forms of resource interaction:

• Influence = the "Pair" from the Pair, Plus, Star, More


• Synergy = "Plus"


• Aggregation = "Star"

Theoretically, Synergy could be represented as a kind of mutual Influence, but in practice it leads to a combinatorial explosion of the ontology, which quickly becomes unmaintainable.

Programming is...

Programming is a particular case of business environment tuning.

Pair, Plus, Star, More

Pair, Plus, Star, More - this formula describes the information structure that forms the basis for the Taogram System.

"Pair" is a pair of resources (context and subject) that participate the influence manifestation.

"Plus" is a heterogenous resource group that represents either context or subject and contains one or more resource units. The "plus" is a term from the regular expression notation; it means "one or more".

"Star" corresponds to an optional homogenous resource set that forms the unit. "Star" is the regular expression notation again; it stands for "zero or more".

"More" term in the formula means that when diving deeper into the structure we get the "Pair, Plus, Star" sequence again and again.

Competitive Intelligence and Strategic Creativity

The strategic creativity is a competitive intelligence in the space of the future variants.