Parmenides Eidos™ is an innovative software-based approach to complex decision-making that enables strategic clarity by helping executives and experts define the key elements in complex situations, develop flexible and focused strategies to address them, test the robustness of these strategies against several different scenarios, and assess the potential risks involved in implementing them.
The Eidos methodology is a visual reasoning language. It identifies and visualizes the essential modules of complex thinking processes and allows combining them in transparent reasoning architectures of arbitrary complexity. Developed since the early 90ies it is used for supporting complex thinking, strategy development and decision making processes, both in the public and the private sector.
The Eidos methodology has two main goals. The first is to improve the quality of complex thinking processes (in terms of precision, creativeness, speed, and communicability). The second function is to document complex thinking in a way that the thinking process can be interactively re-accessed and further developed.
The second function is based on the observation that storing and transferring “knowledge as knowledge” requires a specific type of document: one that enables the recipient to actively re-think prior thoughts, and to apply and adapt them autonomously to novel issues.
refers in ancient Greek to ‘form’ or ‘underlying concept’. Being derived from the notion ‘eidein’ (seeing) it specifically refers to a capacity that could be described as ‘seeing with the mind’.
Language of visual reasoning
The software suite supports human reasoning by allowing planners to visualize relationships and outcomes, and to develop and compute the relationships between the many variables involved in implementing strategies in complex global environments.
Parmenides Eidos is unique. No other software offers tools to support the complete reasoning process of complex analysis, reasoning’s and decision-making tasks.
This poster aims to demonstrate the concept and some of the core visual representations of Parmenides Eidos as well as the ability to generate a Knowledge Backbone(TM).
“One of the best tools (…to support users in futurology...) is Parmenides EIDOS™ (formerly Thinktool), (…). It helps us to develop scenarios, deviate strategies and evaluate these, and prioritize goals. Users need approximately one day of training to start effectively working with this reasoning tool.”
Andreas Neef, Z_punkt GmbH The Foresight Company, Cologne
in: Computerwoche No.8/2009
