A Cognitive Analytics Management Framework (CAM-Part 1): SAMAS Components, Leadership, Frontier Performance Growth, and Sustainable Shared Value

Introduction

Dynamically increasing world challenges derived from changing demographics, accelerating globalization, rising environmental concerns, expanding impact of new technology, evolving societal relationships, and growing threats of stability and order have led to financial deficits, disparity in income, economic depressions, uncertainty in the provision of basic needs (water, food and energy), scarcity of resources, increasing poverty, decreasing well-being of individuals, shortage in job creation, and increasing inequality in income distribution, where the rich people are getting richer and the poor people are getting poorer. Forbes Magazine on (March 3^rd 2013) published a report on the richest people in 2013. The list contained the names of 1426 billionaires with an aggregate net worth of $5.4 trillion, which is more than 3300 times the gross domestic product (GDP) of the 8^th poorest country in the world, Liberia, with a GPD estimated at $1.6 billion and a population of over 4 million person. Such challenges are reshaping businesses, governments and non-government organizations and inviting business leaders, policy makers and entrepreneurs to develop new socially inclusive business models for generating performance growth and creating better shared values to address such societal challenges,(Michelini & Fiorentino, 2012; Porter & Kramer, 2011; and Pfitzer et al. 2013). A shared value of an organization can be simply defined as the total sum of business value to internal shareholders and the social impact value to external stakeholders. Socially inclusive business models involve all stakeholders in a complex process to generate sustainable shared values on a win-win basis among all stakeholders rather than traditional limiting focus on economic value creation to only internal shareholders. (Michelini & Fiorentino, 2012, and Lee et al. 2012).