Implementation Groups is a small-group classification that divides the 32 types into 4 by how new things are implemented in society. The Technology Invention group is the group that invents and broadly implements technology.
The Character of This Group
In the primary source, this group (feminine→masculine, tactical) is described as follows.
These are intermediate types in the transition from feminine to masculine, in whom the feminine origin still prevails. Their main focus is at the junction of management and science ── namely, the generalization of practical experience. They are inventors, improvers, and creators of law, and make possible the mass implementation of technology.
── From V. Gulenko, "Waves of Aging and Renewal ── Directions of Progress Linked to Jungian Aspects" (1996)
Whereas the Technology Introduction group drives in by single-point breakthrough, the Technology Invention group systematizes technology and unfolds it broadly across society as a whole. Their hallmark is refining experience gained in practice into general mechanisms and rules, putting it into a form anyone can use.
This group contains inventors and improvers who bring forth new things, and finishers who complete them and put them into operation. The creation of laws and rules also lies along this line. Their strength is the deployment power to generalize technology into reproducible systems and disseminate them on a large scale. On the other hand, with weight on consolidation and dissemination rather than breakthrough, they tend to be less suited to destructive innovation from zero.
Position Among the 4 Groups
The Technology Invention group is determined by the combination of the object of implementation (Logic) and the manner of implementation (Process). Logic targets technology and systems; Ethics targets ideals and customs. Result heads toward local breakthrough; Process heads toward wide dissemination.
| Axis | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Logic | A judgment that grasps things by mechanism, law, and efficiency. Takes technology and systems as the object of implementation |
| Process | An approach that unfolds broadly and systematically. Heads toward mass implementation and dissemination (divergent) |
The 8 Member Types
Model K Sub-classification ── Extroversion / Introversion
This group is further divided into two by the direction of energy (Extroversion / Introversion). Extroverted types act outwardly and move the field; introverted types take on a role of supporting, regulating, and deepening from within. In the Model K Q/D system, each pole contains 4 types.
Extroverted ── Acting outwardly
As inventors and improvers who bring forth new things, they tend to spread them outward.
Introverted ── Supporting from within
As finishers who put it into operation, they tend to consolidate the system from the inside.
※ This extroversion / introversion division is common to all 4 groups, subdividing Implementation Groups overall into 8 sub-groups. The above indicates tendencies at the group level and is not a definitive statement about individual types.
Internal Structure ── Average Comfort 42.9
The 8 types of the Technology Invention group are not a tightly-bound group sharing values like a Quadra. Alongside Compass, Belonging, Kindred, and Resonance relations, the group also includes tense relations such as Quasi-Identity and Codependency. It is a practical gathering of people in different positions bound by heading toward "the same implementation role."
| Internal relation | Pairs |
|---|---|
| Business | 2 pairs |
| Belonging | 2 pairs |
| Kindred | 2 pairs |
| Resonance | 2 pairs |
| Compass | 4 pairs |
| Codependency | 4 pairs |
| Tense Beneficiary | 2 pairs |
| Supervisor | 2 pairs |
| Tense Benefactor | 2 pairs |
| Player | 2 pairs |
| Quasi-Identity | 4 pairs |