Applications

Originally developed to map the roles that consumers of a business play in their daily lives, The Salaam Matrix has soon expanded to become a complex lens to examine the lives of ‘people’ — a tool equally useful for business and social purposes. (See Development Timeline.)

In time, it became evident that the tool is more neutral and thus bears complex potential not restricted to being a market analysis tool. This is a LENS through which to examine human life. And that ability to see, perceive and examine humanity in an organized fashion, yields potentially infinite applications. Here are some that we can think of:

The Application Scenarios

Listed below is a list of some of the potentially infinite ways in which The Salaam Matrix (in full or parts) or its insights can be used. The Matrix can be used both for structure and content of a project or inquiry!

  • Social Applications (Welfare, Social Studies…)
  • Political Applications (We are now paying special attention to this!)
  • City or Village Design and Management Applications
  • Environmental Planning and Projections
  • Inner Work and Life Design Studies and Applications
  • Understanding Demand Gaps in the Market
  • Understanding Infrastructure Needs and Planning Imperatives
  • Social and Anthropological Studies
  • Writers’ Guide to Sketch a Fictional Society or Community (Creative Application!)
  • Route Planning in Traffic Systems
  • Curriculum Planning & Development
  • Ecological Studies & Maps
  • Interracial and Cross-sectional Studies and Comparisons; Profiling (for benevolent motives!)
  • Manifesto Development by Political Leaders
  • Understanding Conflict (Through Structural and Time-Gap Studies)
  • Historical and Projective Studies
  • Business Development
  • … and so on.
  • A special application of this tool is to reimagine the tasks and shape of intelligence-gathering in the new, multipolar, convergent world.

These are some of the many exciting, and scintillating application scenarios that have been developed in the course of a few minutes while penning the text for this page!

To explore more application scenarios (for downstream users), or to deep dive into one or more scenarios, book a consultation** with Ramala Hubb’Allah for a private intensive. This is especially aimed at higher-level leaders, decision-makers, planners, guides and visionaries.

** Note: Bookings are currently on hold and will be available soon. Meanwhile, explore the latest posts on the blog.