Stages and Elements First let's look at the various stages and elements of the model and then return to developing the case for S'poze as a link between the Creative Process and the Ten Step Knowledge Management model. At this stage, the system's current Paradigm meets up with a high information messaging event. And it means that the potential effect of this information is of such a magnitude as to compel a conscious decision for handling it. Either it represents a threat and the system must learn new strategies for thwarting it, or it contains a potential benefit and the system must learn how to take advantage of it. New Information Systems are receiving all kinds of messages from other systems and the environment in general.
Messages are neutral.
They do not contain information. Rather, information is the result of a system's interpretation of a message, including whatever meaning it assigns to the message based on past experience. The measure of information is proportional to its uncertainty, or surprise. The more surprising the message, the more information it contains. Most messaging events are devoid of information, either because they are filtered out, or because they bear messages whose content is expected by the receiving system.