AimData Solutions. is a project we created to provide a notion of recent business development research, encompassing the following disruptive vision and followed up business possibilities:

'We make Soft Data Accessible, Usable and Valuable.'

Soft Data is one of the fastest growing and most valuable part of big data - generated by every individual in a knowledge economy of IT-infrastructures, applications, mobile devices, websites, clickstreams, social data, sensors and more.

AimData Solutions. is envisioned to capitalize Soft Data that enables customer to obtain tacit knowledge about scrutinizing self, others, and special tasks and mitigating transaction costs in Business, Healthcare and Education purposes.

Our mission is to address the challenges and opportunities of managing massive streams of person-generated big data. The Service will harness enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers realized by tapping into powerful human impulses for E-Governance, Ethics & Business Compliance, and Behavior & Workplace Optimization.

AimData Solutions. is the worlds first artificial neural network recognizes behavior, consolidate it and solving problems in ways you could never dream before.

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As I continue my professional journey, I like to think of my career as one big learning experience that continuously grows with each project and collaboration. With a dedication to functionality and a curiosity of Data Science for what’s ahead of the curve, I keep my work practical, relevant and creative. Have a look at my business project, and feel free to reach out with any questions or co-venturing purposes.

"Tacit knowledge about how people are managed is the great achievement of strong ethical conduct embedded in the Chinese culture"

- Sebastian Dehlfing, Global Times -

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The Challenge in the Digital Era

Behavioral Education Technology

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Top-Tier Corporate Venture Capital

The nature of investments in the information age doesn’t suit the internal capabilities, financial controls, strategic planning and risk perception of ‘old economy firms’. The reason is the intangible nature of value created in information businesses (such as marketplaces or software). These internet unicorns require capital to build real businesses and aren’t worth much until they do. And if an incumbent can’t build them organically, it'll need to buy them.
CVC provides a useful tool for large firms to make smarter acquisition decisions.

Corporate venture's most useful function is a sensing function. It gives corporates a good roadmap for the future.
This is the most important function, especially in times of technology change.
For areas which are new markets or new technologies, firms can use corporate venture to understand the market. Startups that are early in their journey, and raising their first meaningful founding rounds (aka Series A) tend to do so 5-7 years before mainstream adoption. Seed rounds happen 12-18 months before that. Entrepreneurs get their itch a year earlier.
So you can get a 5-8 year heads-up on what trends might be and how they might actually play out in the market. This is more effective than market research because research won’t pick up the trends (or at least will not understand their scale). Trend forecasting won’t get into the nuance of what it is to make them real, to turn them into viable businesses, to satisfy customers, to change value chains, to grow.

This is something entrepreneurs do as they build their businesses.
I don't believe you can do this with trend forecasting or innovation theatre. You need to play with "skin in the game" because most of the know-how discovered is held privately to the companies and doesn't show up in the pages of TechCrunch (let alone the WSJ) for years. If you don't come to the table with dollars to invest, you can't really participate in this innovation ecosystem. And if you are only observing, not participating, you won't really come close to understand the space. (And that understanding is both the thematic, high-level understanding, but a practical understanding of the operations, execution, culture, partnerships and talent required to succeed in these new environments.)
Corporate venture should deliver some kind of positive return on a portfolio of reasonable investments. (There is data elsewhere about this).
So corporate venturing is top-tier consulting for free or possible for less.
Over five-years you will actually make money from your CVC efforts, so it may a negative cost to it.
So why don't firms undertake corporate venturing?
1. Their balance sheet is too small. Allocating a small portion of it doesn't give them enough capital to run a decent portfolio. (You need about $40m to run a early stage portfolio as a minimum. I reckon that about than 1% of your balance sheet should be allocated to corporate venture. That is a rough rule of thumb, it would be much lower for larger firms.)
2. “We can’t be Sequoia”, i.e. since we can't be the best investors, we shouldn't do it. This a fallacy. No-one is asking them to be Sequoia, we are asking to be a well-structured CVC activity.
3. Our cost of capital is too high / can’t make IRR metrics : This is overstated. We are only asking for a small portion of the investment pool. Does it really matter if cost of capital is higher than that of a financial investor (unless it is crazy high)?
None of these are real excuses.
The real issue seems to be that operational businesses are about minimising variance. VC (or working with entrepreneurs) is about maximising variance (or “taking enough risk”).
This is a clash of mental models or framing the problem.
However, our turbulent future is less about minimising variance and more about exploring possibilities and helping to make it real. This is something for which venture is well suited.

The danger from embedding risk managers within the line organization is that they “go native”—becoming deal makers rather than deal questioners.

Risk management is painful—not a natural act for humans to perform.

Social Credit System

The Social Credit System is a proposed Chinese government initiative for developing a national reputation system. It is reported that it is used to assign a "social credit" rating to every citizen based on the government's data on their economic and social status. It works as a quality monitoring by relying on large data analysis techniques. In addition, it is also meant to rate businesses operating on the Chinese market.
The social credit system is an example of China's top-level design. It is aligned to the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms.
According to the overall plan outline for the "Planning Outline of a Social Credit System (2014 - 2020)", the social credit system of the State Council will focus on four aspects: government faith, business integrity, social integrity, and judicial credibility. The Chinese government hopes that the basic structure of the social credit system will be put into place 2020.
According to the plan, the goal is "raising the awareness for integrity and the level of credibility within society." The social credit system is an important means to improve the "socialist market economy" (完善社会主义市场经济体制) and to strengthen and innovate the governance of the society (加强和创新社会治理).
This indicates that the Chinese government regards it as an important means of regulating the economy and governance as a tool to guide civic behaviour. Besides, the social credit system aims to solve the problem of lack of trust in Chinese market. Supporters believe that this will help eliminate problems such as food safety, deception and counterfeit goods.
The social credit system will be limited to Mainland China, therefore, does not apply to Hong Kong and Macao. However, the current plan does not distinguish between Chinese enterprises and foreign enterprises operating on the Chinese market.

In March 2018, Reuters reported that sanctions on citizens and businesses with low credit rating will come into effect on May 1st.
As the rating is not high, the possible penalties could include:
• Adverse conditions for new loans
• Taxes are higher than competitors
• It is not allowed to issue any bonds or invest in listed companies.
• Fewer opportunities to participate in public funding projects
• Mandatory government approval for investment, even when market access is usually unregulated.
In severe cases, the company's e-commerce account may be closed, or even senior management's personal credit rating is likely to be affected. A manager of a company may be deprived of tickets for high-speed trains or international business flights. On the other hand, a fully compliant company can benefit from it.

Based on the high contextual preference in learning organizations characterized by concrete experience and reflective observation of new technologies, the governance, compliance and risk management of the Chinese government was adapting to changing circumstances more adequate.
Meanwhile the Anglo-Saxon countries displayed a crucial difference in acquiring tacit knowledge in terms of a culture of active experimentation and abstract conceptualization, advantages of managing management dealing with technical problems were leading to more innovations despite the consequent volatile economic growth.
Although this ushered into the more recent rise of this governance approach, due to endless seeming resources, this way of doing business went well until the point that stakeholder exploitation fired back and induced the change of successful business planning.
Besides that, the economic circumstances are changing once again, the drive towards a digital economy is creating a new resource to handle with carefully - Non-assessable information.
In these regards is the Chinese government setting up a system based on ethics and integrity on the basis of the Social Credit System in order to create a more resilient governance referring to E-Governance. Thereby the government applying big-data surveillance establishing an intelligent system that in itself justify adequate governance by overcoming the prevailing information asymmetry.
The question arises "what does the social credit system mean for business in order to embark business opportunities and facilitate education operations?"
The idea of the Social Credit System is an incentive-based program rewarding “good” behaviour and punishing “bad”. Similar is a corporate culture of integrity, tapping into human's impulses increases the probability of forthcoming behaviour.
Today, thinking about the growing need of innovations to compete in the global arena, the guiding values of an organisation becomes essential in creating an environment that fosters a behaviour that supports the concept of self-governance and instil a sense of shared accountability.

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Tsinghua University Conference on Christmas Eve 2017

"Data provided by humans can be seen as a form of labour which powers artifical intelligence"

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As tasks are automated labour is reallocated. What people do may change, but overall employment remains more or less constant. There are two fundamental reasons for this. First, innovation is both labour substituting and labour aumenting, for example, many new jobs have been created developing mobile apps. Second, income growth driven by innovation increases demand for goods and services, so sectors of economy not directly related to technology-driven automation may grow as a result.

Innovation and growth are not inevitably associated with declining employment and rising inequaltiy. Indeed, the reverse has held historically. What we should do is prepare people for change, help them adjust and ensure the benefits of innovation are widely distributed, not protect the status quo.

The alternative, of slowing innovation and seeking to protect existing ways of doing things would result in stragnation, and would likely worsen inequality.
The potential prize from innovation is large and we should seize it, as a paper for the European Commision concluded on ICT and productivity "Conditional on the polcy environment, labor productivity growth in the EU of 2.5 percent per year for the next 20-30 years appears attainable."
It is up to us to choose the path we take, to seek to maximise the benefits whilst minimising potential harm.

Epilogue

Soft culture matters as much as hard numbers. An Organisation culture is not about words at all. It's about behaviour – and consequences ushered in reputation. It's about every single individual who manages people knowing that his or her key role is that of chief values officer, responsible to offer knowledge transmission and institute systems that facilitate ethical conducts in order to create a climate that strengthen relationships and reputation their companies depend on.
Implementing a compliance-based ethics program, the goal is not only designed to prevent, detect and punish legal violations, rather be pursuant to an integrity-based approach to create an organization that encourages exemplary behaviour which in subsequence also might be the best way to prevent damaging misconduct.
When integrating integrity strategies into the day-to-day operations of an organization, cultures of guiding values, aspiration, and pattern of thought and conduct can be realized by tapping into powerful human impulses for moral thoughts and actions.
Further, given the improvement of compliance in the digital era, it is crucial to acknowledge that stakeholder can now quickly confirm their needs facilitating the governance of their corporation.
Especially in the education industry such a capability could serve on its best by validating a curriculum, enhance line and staff management or foster fruitful workgroups by leveraging expertise within professional institutions.
Ethics or reputation networks are critical to ensure a compliance program is well designed and provides the necessary support to the management structure for its implementation.

Connect your Behavior to the World, Experience the best Administration of Yourself.

SEBASTIAN DEHLFING 戴思天