The Global Risks report 2016 of the World Economic Forum (WEF)

Risks & Disruptions

Climate change, population growth, technological evolution, geopolitics as well as "unknown unknowns" are only some of the sources of risks and disruptions relevant in business, politics and society.

Parmenides EIDOS helps set up

• early warning systems
• scenario-based planning
• quick reaction templates

thus helping decision makers in

• prevention
• analysis
• reaction

Biases

Beliefs, behavioral biases such as overconfidence, social biases or memory errors deviate us from rational decision-making. "Made by nature" bias-induced heuristics often prove useful when time or contextual restrictions apply. Often enough, biases lead to inconsistent behavior and poor decisions.

Parmenides EIDOS eliminates many known biases by providing easy access to analytical techniques and management tools, by systematically switching perspectives and visualizations, which unburden our working memory.

Memory Constraints and Sequentiality of Speech

Lengthy PowerPoint presentations, text documents and talks are all sequential - a characteristic which quickly overwhelms our limited working memory.

The different modules of Parmenides EIDOS systematically make use of the parallel processing capabilities our visual channel offers and thus helps managers to base their decision on a richer set of parameters.

Not invented here

Not invented here is just one of many reasons for limiting the options at hand and exponentially minimizing an institution's room for maneuver.

Parmenides EIDOS fosters "thinking out of the box" exercises and helps counter a lot of individual and group-based biases and mechanisms that prematurely limit our option space.

Tunnel vision

"If all you have is a hammer, you try to make every problem look like a nail."
"You’ll never solve a problem with the same mode of thinking that made it appear in the first place."
These are two proverbs which describe reasoning approaches that lack inspiration, innovation and creativity.

Parmenides EIDOS provides ready-to-use templates for a huge variety of management tools, creativity techniques and options development in order to foster approaches and strategies which make use of a company's or institution's full potential.

Visualization

„A picture says more than a thousand words“ - Parmenides Eidos utilizes the best developed competence of the human brain, the broad-band parallel processing capacities of our visual sense, for complex reasoning processes.

With the help of the 10 reasoning modules in Parmenides Eidos Toolsuite, complex thinking processes are visualized step by step, and, at the end, the entire reasoning process is recomposed into fully transparent, interactively accessible and modifiable reasoning architectures.

Storing knowledge as knowledge

Information and data need context in order to „make sense“ for us. Lengthy ppt presentations, databanks and many knowledge management tools lack contextualization and thus are not well conceived to support complex reasoning because while studying we loose the "cognitive links" allowing for seamless processing.

Based on a synoptic overview in Parmenides Eidos reasoning architectures, data, information, reports and other supporting documents can be accessed in their precise context.

The human brain and IT

The human brain is well prepared to execute basic cognitive operations such as comparisons or causal relationships. IT offers enormous parallel processing capabilities.

Parmenides Eidos Suite approach combines the best of those two worlds by using IT to process the results of our cognitive operations into higher-level aggregates that better match todays complexity challenges.

Two modes of thinking

Studying human thinking skills one finds two basic types of operations: the well-known, ratio-morphic reasoning operations by which arguments are rationally interrelated and concatenated. Less understood but equally important - “intuition”, “fantasy” or “creativity” draw on constellations of features and process them, via not language-based operations, into holistic impressions.

Parmenides Eidos allows for effortlessly combining and integrating these two modes of thinking. Its explicit and transparent reasoning steps and the complementary assessment of complex configurations of factors, options and risks via constellatory intuition allow for excellence in thinking and „realistic“ solving of complex and wicked problems.