Conceptual basis for the management of the Imagination in changing environments

Resumen

Imagination defined as the creation of new images in the mind, is modeled to reachbetter performances in changing environments. Although from different sciences Imaginationis supposed to increase the intelligence; before starting the current research this intellectualcapacity was often undervalued, most time confused it with Creativity. Certainly, the review ofepisodes recorded by the Economics, Anthropology, Psychology and History, confirm thehypothesis that the Imagination is a mental faculty that contributes to the viability. This modelconsiders three major systems. The first is the environment which interacts with the secondone corresponding to the Organization and which in turn contains the third: Mind. In the latterare identified close to Imagination, interacting with it through the flow of images Perception,Memory and Reasoning. Through a partnership process between parent images, a daughterimage is generated with emergent properties, totally absent in the sensory images capturedby the Organization from its Environment. Since the model establishes dependencyrelationships between Imagination with other intellectual phenomena and these in turn arebased on elements outside of the Mind and controllable by the Organization, this model canbe used for increasing the Imagination in business.