Dr. Nagib Callaos is the founding president of the IIIS and the founding president of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI). He is former Dean of Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar and was the founding president of several organizations on research, development, and technological innovation, e.g. The Foundation of Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar, the founding president of the Venezuelan Fund for Technological Innovations (created by presidential decree), The founding president of the Venezuelan Association of Executives in Patents and Copyrights, etc. His main research and professional activities were in the area of Systemic Methodologies of Information System Development, Group Decision Support Systems, and Action-Research mainly via Operations Research. He tutored more than 100 undergraduate and graduate theses and produced more than 100 research papers and reflection articles.

The purpose of this participatory talk is to describe and show:

1. the importance of analogical thinking,
2. its relationship with logical thinking, and
3. the cybernetic loops that might be emerge when both kinds of thinking are related with systemic which might generate a holistic perspective that would promote an integral, integrative, and integrated Hybrid Thinking; which, in turn, may have a systemic-cybernetic, and potentially synergistic, relationships in contexts like:
    a) Inter-disciplinary Communication, Case Studies, Case Studies Methodologies
    b) Integrating academic activities, i.e. Research, Education, and Consulting or Real Problem Solving