“Recommended strategies were fully accepted by Pharma leadership and Bayer’s Board of Management. Using [EIDOS] resulted in rapid acceptance and implementation.”
Dr. Dirk Suwelack, Head Corporate Controlling Bayer
“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
“Parmenides EIDOS™ is the ideal instrument to visualize complex questions. This software tool supports us in solving strategic problems like market entry strategies or business planning. Especially the combination of qualitative and quantitative parameters in developing a judgement about the possible strategic options are a valuable addition for my work.”
Dr. Tim E. Fischer, Corporate Strategy and Communication,
Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Duesseldorf
“Using Mindjets‘ MindManager for brainstorming and structuring my thoughts and projects goes without saying. Going further to more complex and strategic matter Parmenides Eidos is an essential to develop strategies, analyze risks or build scenarios. I'm impressed how insights of cognition research support daily work of senior decision makers so intuitively and efficiently.”
Michael Louis, Co-Founder of Mindjet Corporation and Entrepreneur of the Year 2004
“During my professional life I have worked with a number of software tools to support the analysis of complex systems and problems as well as generating scenarios. None was as systemic as Parmenides EIDOS™, and supported both the analysis as well as the synthesis phase in such a user friendly and intuitive fashion.”
Dr.-Ing. Harald Hiessl, Fraunhofer Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI, Karlsruhe
“I have been applying the Parmenides EIDOS™ Suite in the course „Strategic Planning Management“ for two years. The tools forces the user to think logically and to clearly model the problem tasks and solution strategy. At the beginning, some of my students felt that the exercise was almost painful because it was new and errors in reasoning became obvious. By now, most of the applied methods have become part of their thinking and language repertoire. They are proudly utilized in new projects – even when I am not around to insist on using the EIDOS approach.”
Prof. Dr. Peter Dürr, Hochschule München, Fakultät für angewandte
Sozialwissenschaften, Lehrgebiet Wissens- und Kommunikationsmanagement
“Indeed, we have never been so efficient in developing strategies as when using Parmenides EIDOS™.”
Prof. Dr. Rédey Ákos, Vice-Rector for Strategic Management, Pannon University, Hungary
“The Eidos tool is a leader in the field of providing highly-visual graphic representations of scenarios, strategic options and strategy implementation. Whilst the design and development of scenarios and strategies remains a complex project, Eidos adds real value through enabling participants to make better decisions by seeing the whole picture. Eidos further allows participants to test their work in real-time by changing variables and immediately seeing what impact these changes will have on the scenario and/or strategy."
Myles Hopkins
Chairman – Foresight Network
The use of Parmenides Eidos made it much easier for us to conduct a software supported scenario analysis in the context of technology management exercise. Compared to other tools,
- the easy application,
- intuitive user interface, as well as
- wide range of functionality, and flexibility,
meant that students and academics could concentrate on the analysis and results, rather than having to solve software problems.”
Prof. Dr. K. Hölzle, Institut vor Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement, TU-Berlin
Original quote:
“Der Einsatz von Parmenides Eidos hat die Durchführung einer softwaregestützten Szenario-Analyse im Rahmen unserer Technologiemanagement Übung erheblich vereinfacht.
Gegenüber vorherigen Tools hat:
- die einfache Nutzung,
- die intuitive Benutzeroberfläche
- sowie der Funktionsumfang und die Flexibilität
dazu geführt, dass sich Studenten und Betreuer auf die Analyse und deren Ergebnisse konzentrieren konnten anstatt Probleme mit der Software lösen zu müssen.”
Prof. Dr. K. Hölzle, Institut vor Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement, TU-Berlin
