Innovation Relevance

Compared to Animal the Human race benefits from a natural superior capacity to deal with information which through the times has enabled invention of language, techniques and civilization.

The capacity of Humans to transcend simple instinct and conceptualize his surrounding world by saving, re-using and exchanging information leads to the definition of the Homo Sapiens. (The Human who knows) .

Viewed in IT terms, this unique human skill, known as Cognition, could only be described as a combination of Content, Knowledge and Relationship management.

Thanks to his Cognition capacity, the Human may not only create and invent (words, tools, social behaviors) but also learn procedures and acquire new techniques to make things. This ability leads to the definition of the Homo Faber. (The Human who makes) .

Computer science, implies the exploitation of this human procedural skill, through hardware and software applicative frameworks for productivity missions.
Thus did the industry develop all kind of tools, ranging from simple calculator to Cray computer, from accounting spreadsheet to powerful ERP, from simple text processor to presentation makers, from 2D wire-line CAD software to virtual 3D motion picture editor. All these solution by enabling better and faster execution of Faber type operation, help each user, in his domain of interest or occupation.

Information Technology, despite the Sapiens nature of its subject, is totally based on the same Faber type of software and hardware framework. Thus like any productivity mission, managing Information requires dedicated hardware, software and a lot of computer experience, skill, personal organization and perseverance from the user. The lack of any of these leads to what we are used to call digital divide.

TAPP genuine fundamental innovation consist in identifying and supporting accordingly among IT user’s behaviors what belongs on one hand to his Cognitive domain (Sapiens type Operations) and on the other hand to his classical productivity domain ( Faber type Operations ) .