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Sandra Kay Tice is a visionary with over thirty years of experience in cognitive and information science. Ms. Tice is a former engineer for NASA's Saturn Rocket Project where she worked on the reliability models and trajectory systems that enable shuttles to hit the target "window" in space, thus ensuring astronauts are not lost. These systems were portrayed in the movie Apollo 13.

She specializes in the practical application of working memory - the human mind's system for the temporary storage, retrieval and manipulation of information and thought processes that are necessary for intuitions, decision-making, learning, problem-solving and expert performance. She is an expert in the integration of human and computer information theory as well as capturing, integrating and disseminating the thought processes - wisdom gained from experience - used by working memory to produce an outcome.

She created Thought Process Optimization (TPO) which is an accelerated learning process that is based on the extensive research conducted by cognitive scientists in the area of working memory. TPO is used to continuously capture the dynamic personal thought processes that each individual's working memory uses to generate intuitions, decisions and expert performance. These thought processes are then stored in a software application known as the Intellectual Capital Repository or ICR where they are integrated, shared and continuously improved.

Ms. Tice directed the design and development of the ICR. She also created One-Term One-Meaning and designed the intelligent - or rational - agents needed to identify terms and enforce consistency of terms and definitions throughout an organization.
She pioneered artificial intelligence, decision support/business intelligence and data warehousing. She developed a healthcare decision support application that was marketed to hospitals throughout the United States and received international recognition for developing the first artificial intelligence code generator. She has consulted with healthcare organizations as well as companies such as Baxter, Pfizer, Motorola, ConAgra, Unilever, Wrigley, Sara Lee, NutraSweet, SC Johnson, Whirlpool, Sears, Allstate and JPMorgan Chase.

Ms. Tice has a degree in mathematics from Tulane University and studied at Loyola University and the University of New Orleans. At the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, she assisted with course curriculum, lectured and conducted research on thought process models with Dr. Robert Ashenhurst who published their joint findings in Minds and Machines...the Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Cognitive Science. She was responsible for identifying the four types of thought processes that people use in performing their jobs: Conditions, Restrictions, Assumptions and Intentions.

Ms. Tice authored: Working Memory - Leveraging The Most Valuable Resource In Medicine…Fixing America's Ailing Healthcare System…The Thought Process Optimization Workshop…How to Create a Smart, Nimble and Quick Corporation, a white paper for Tuck Graduate School of Business that was used to teach the transformation of management and decision-making processes to MBA students…Business Process Support: Data Warehouses that Reinvent the Business Environment, FID News Bulletin published in over 60 countries…and The Quest for Consistency; published in Darwin, which was CIO Magazine's sister publication for business executives.

She has given speeches on the following topics: Working Memory - Leveraging The Most Valuable Resource In Medicine…Meeting the Innovation Imperative…The Ultimate Source of Innovation and Wealth…Unleashing the Power of Innovative Thinking…Tapping into the World's Greatest Sources of Wealth…The Source of Wealth or Gray Matter Matters…Creating Ideal Bankers…and Creating Ideal Technology Managers.

Her speaking engagements include: Motorola Innovation Center, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, IBM, REGIS, American Society for Information Science and Technology Management Association of Chicago and a number of civic organizations. She has also conducted one-day seminars on Creating a Smart, Nimble and Quick Corporation for companies such as Allstate, Wrigley, IBM, Allied Van Lines, Pfizer and Goodyear.