Carlos Fernando Flores Labra (born January 9, 1943) is a former Chilean cabinet minister and current senator. January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...

Flores was born in Talca. He worked for the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende and then spent three years as a political prisoner of General Augusto Pinochet (from September 11, 1973 to 1976). Released after negotiations with Amnesty International, he established his family in Palo Alto and started to work as a researcher of the Computer Science departament at Stanford University where he studied a PhD under the guidance of Hubert Dreyfus, Stuart Dreyfus, John Searle and Ann Markussen. There he developed his work on philosophy, coaching and workflow technology, influenced by Heidegger, Maturana, John Austin and others. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis was titled Management and Communication in the Office of the Future. Talcas main comercial street Talca (2002 Census pop. ... Salvador Isabelino del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Allende Gossens (known as Salvador Allende; June 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from September 1970 until his removal from power and death in September 1973. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... Amnesty International logo Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ... Downtown Palo Alto Palo Alto is a city in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. Palo Alto is located at the northern end of the Silicon Valley, and is home to Stanford University (which is technically located in an adjacent area — Stanford, California), and... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco in an [1] of Santa Clara County. ... PhD usually refers to the academic title Doctor of Philosophy PhD can also refer to the manga Phantasy Degree This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Hubert Dreyfus (born 1929) is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. ... John Rogers Searle (born July 31, 1932) is Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and is noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and consciousness, on the characteristics of socially constructed versus physical realities, and on practical reason. ... A coach is a person who teaches and directs another person via encouragement and advice. ... Workflow at its simplest is the movement of documents and/or tasks through a work process. ... Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher. ... Humberto Maturana (born 1928 in Santiago) is a Chilean biologist and philosopher. ... There have been several notable people named John Austin: A philosopher of language; see J. L. Austin (1911 - 1960) An 18th century legal and political theorist who wrote An Essay on Sovereignty, considered the standard for discussions about sovereignty; see John Austin (legal philosophy) A warrant officer in the United... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as the University of California at Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Cal, California, or Berkeley) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...

Flores has founded several companies including "Logonet", an educational company; "Business Design Associates", a management consulting company; and Action Technologies, a software company, where he introduced new distinctions in workflow analysis, groupware, software design and business process analysis. Workflow at its simplest is the movement of documents and/or tasks through a work process. ... Collaborative software, also known as groupware, is application software that integrates work on a single project by several concurrent users at separated workstations (see also Computer supported cooperative work). ...

Flores is the author of Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life, Understanding Computers and Cognition : A New Foundation for Design (with Terry Winograd), Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity, and contributor to Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years, a special issue of the Communications of the ACM journal. Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. ... Communications of the ACM (CACM) is the flagship monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery. ...

Flores' new project is an Internet-based movement called Atina Chile.

See also

• Project Cybersyn

Project Cybersyn was a Chilean attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970-1973 (during the government of president Salvador Allende). ...

External links

• Personal blog
• Fast Company article on Flores — "The Power of Words"
• Center for Quality of Management Journal article — "Using the Methods of Fernando Flores"