Yijing and Yintelligence

The obvious necessity of change as an inherent characteristic of all kinds of processes has also been observed and recognized by the antique Chinese scholars. They analyzed and collected a large amount of facts concerning the dynamic of change. This 3000-year-old knowledge had been compiled into a book called the “Book of Changes” or I Ching or in modern wording, Yijing.  

The Yijing, with its 64 geometrical figures and corresponding texts, which had been accumulated and consolidated since the 10th century BC of ancient Chinese culture, is one of the oldest written documents of the ancient Chinese philosophy. In the imperial period, it was used as the basic principle to manage the daily as well as the strategic governmental business. This article proposes not to scrutinize the validity of this statement, but to illustrate how sophisticated its underlying logic is, by establishing astonishing links between the mentioned PDCA cycle and the 64 hexagrams.

There is a significant amount of literature on the Yijing, and its practice is gaining more and more importance in the Asian countries. Especially in China and Vietnam, where serious attempts are made to develop a new lecture and an understanding of this ancient management method to make it a suitable tool for supporting decision-making processes.

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