**5.4 Semi-open mode of operation**

The semi-open mode of operation is based on the doctoral thesis of Professor André Niel. His thought, which remained in the form of unfinished documents, is reflected in his book [9]. In particular, he analyzes the "field of the creative relationship" between people. It shows how the energy that occurs in this relationship can be transformed into combat energy, into creative energy, or (if nothing happens) into the self-destructive energy of mental anguish, depending on the nature of people and the mode of communication that can or cannot establish themselves among themselves. Having known him well and having led creative groups with him to experiment with the "field of creative relationship," we had the opportunity to measure the creative power of tacit knowledge in the exchanges between people in this field of relationship.

**Figure 4** shows the semi-opened mode of operation. This typical mode of operation may be thought as a concrete application of the concept of *Ba* and the Single-Loop Learning and Double-Loop Learning theory defined in the Argyris & Schön's organizational learning [22]. Let us describe **Figure 4.**

Considering the *Field (working spaces)* characterized by a specific context, where people are confronted with constantly evolving situations, one can observe two reasoning loops: (1) a deductive reasoning loop that characterizes the analytic approach of operational and business units in the Creative Relations Area; and (2) an inductive reasoning loop that characterizes the systemic approach of an Overall Perception Area*.*

*The Semi-opened Platform*, which is a neutral space that favors the interactions, is an evolution and progress space where people interact following these two ways of reasoning. It is what Edgar Morin and Le Moigne, 1999) [25] call Dialogic Principle that "combines two principles or notions that must be mutually exclusive, but that are integral parts of the same reality" (p. 264). In the Overall Perception Area, inductive reasoning is involved inducing partial models of action, processes, and techniques. In the Creative Relations Area, people interactions, in deep analysis, and knowledge sharing, engender symbiosis of ideas. The issue is to transcend the deductive rationality of operational units by sharing models of action, processes and techniques induced by the inductive rationality of a multidisciplinary group.

**Figure 4.** *Semi-opened mode of operation.*

That makes people transcending their own interpretative frameworks and constructing collective representations.
