Technologies

Our products are what make us special. Our research products are designed to provide our customers with a unique experience of problem resolution, involvement, learning and effect. We put a remarkable amount of effort and thought in the design and delivery of each of our products. While each product is designed to solve a particular type of problem, few core design principles run through.

Based on first principle pedagogies and research. Our products ingrain a chosen and congruent set of philosophies and beliefs from behavioural and cognitive psychology, organisational and social psychology, adult learning, management, and the theories of thinking and problem solving.

Meticulous design, consistent application. Each element of our products is designed with great care. Be it the questionnaire for a specific survey, or the template for a problem solving session, or the size of a skill building cohort, or the heuristic applied in a diagnostic tool.

‘Smart’ design to avoid variability. Our products can be used smoothly and consistently across different business situations with minimal customisation. Which means no last minute surprises, no mismatch in expectations, no loss in efficiency due to variability.

Self-reliant product application by customers. Our products are simple to understand and use. We encourage our customers to administer the products themselves. And they love to do it. We provide required product training, and insist on a low level of oversight. Unless our customers get their hands dirty, they will not benefit to the fullest.

5 proprietary technologies to deliver the research. Our research products are deployed in our customer organisations through five proprietary technologies and approaches. These technologies are represented by the trademarks VERITAS AD PRETIUM®, DAEMEQUALIA®, DOXASTORG®, E5 AESTHETIK® and IMROMEASURE®.

Our products are what make us special. We put remarkable effort and thought in the design and delivery of each of our products. First, our products are based on first principle research and pedagogies from the domains of philosophy, psychology, sociology, reflective thinking, introspection and management. Second, our products are meticulously designed and applied with consistency. Third, our products are designed ‘smart’ to enable usage across a range of organisational settings. Fourth, our products are applied by our customers in a self-reliant manner. Finally, our 5 proprietary technologies constitute the engine-room for implementing and delivering the research.

Our products are what make us special. First, our products are based on first principle research and pedagogies from the domains of philosophy, psychology, sociology, reflective thinking, introspection and management. Second, our products are meticulously designed and applied with consistency. Third, our products are designed ‘smart’ to enable usage across a range of organisational settings. Fourth, our products are applied by our customers in a self-reliant manner. Finally, our 5 proprietary technologies constitute the engine-room for implementing and delivering the research.

The notion of truth is held in high esteem in business. Value creation requires the infusion of truth about state of affairs. CEOs and business leaders need a “near accurate” view of topics such as collective performance, competitive manoeuvres, and employee motivation. A “true view” is a must requirement in strategic and tactical decision making. And yet, deciphering and deploying “truth” in business is neither a given, nor easy. Our proprietary delivery technology VERITAS AD PRETIUM® leverages arguments, constructs and techniques from philosophy more broadly, and epistemology specifically, to guide our customers from “truth” to “value creation”. VERITAS AD PRETIUM® is a journey in five segments with the objective of changing mindsets and catalysing action: “defining truth and truthlikeness”, “conceiving the truth”, “conversations on truth”, “extracting the truth” and “applying the truth”.

Value creation requires truth infusion about state of business affairs. Leaders need a “true” view of topics such as performance, competition and motivation. And yet, deciphering and deploying “truth” in business remains challenging. Our proprietary delivery technology, VERITAS AD PRETIUM®, leverages philosophy and epistemology to structure the journey “from truth to value” in five parts: “defining truth and truthlikeness”, “conceiving the truth”, “conversations on truth”, “extracting truth” and “applying the truth”.

Organised inquiry is the essence of research, and aptly described as “making sense of the world through intelligible theories”. Mysterianism suggests that the world is not intelligible, but we can have intelligible theories to understand it. The consciousness of the individual is the prime mover of the enterprise of organised inquiry, and needs to be understood and guided during this enterprise. DAEMEQUALIA® is our proprietary delivery technology that works with the individual’s consciousness during the organised inquiry of research. It deals with two domains of inquiry: first, related to immediate environment; and second, related to everything else. For immediate environment, DAEMEQUALIA® draws on principles of phenomenology, psychophysics, and structuralism in psychology. For inquiry beyond immediate environment, it draws on principles of reflective thinking, theoretical reasoning and practical reasoning.

Collective intentionality is the power of minds to be jointly directed at objects, matters of fact, states of affairs, goals or values. In the context of an organisation, it manifests in various modes including shared intention, joint attention, shared beliefs, collective acceptances and shared evaluative attitudes. Organised inquiry through research perforce needs to transcend individual consciousness and investigate collective intentionality. DOXASTORG® is our proprietary delivery technology that adopts a non-summative and non-reductionist view of collective intentionality and accepts its independent ontological status. It analyses collective intentionality in its three parts: content, mode and subject. DOXASTORG® analyses doxastic attitudes of collectives within organisations pertaining to beliefs, and extending to states that are similar to beliefs, such as thoughts, judgments, opinions, desires and wishes.

Collective intentionality is the power of minds to be jointly directed at objects, matters of fact, states of affairs, goals or values. In an organisation, it manifests as shared intention, joint attention, shared beliefs, collective acceptances and shared evaluative attitudes. DOXASTORG® is our proprietary delivery technology that adopts a non-reductionist view of collective intentionality. It analyses doxastic attitudes of collectives within organisations pertaining to beliefs, thoughts, judgments, opinions and desires.

The event of problem resolution consists in the availability of the triad: the ‘problem’, the ‘problem resolution agent’, and the ‘problem resolution environment’. Our proprietary E5 AESTHETIK® technology takes the conception of ‘problem resolution environment’ to much beyond the limited concept of ‘problem resolution methods and techniques’. Our technology disaggregates this environment into constituents based on interactions between agent and environment. Five elements emerge: the agent’s ‘engaging’ with the problem and environment; the ‘enriching’ of the problem with multiple perspectives, the ‘energising’ of the agent through motivation; the ‘empowering’ of the agent to move from ‘reason to act’ to ‘taking action’; and ‘enabling’ of the agent through nurturing. E5 AESTHETIK® leverages the problem resolution environment in the research setting to enhance the quality of insights.

Measurement is an integral part of running an institution. It is also an integral part of research. Philosophy of measurement has been enriched over past centuries, not in small measure by the development of mathematical theories and the natural sciences. The consequent epistemology of measurement has great import for derivations and the making of meaning in business. Our proprietary delivery technology IMROMEASURE® takes inspiration from different strands of measurement philosophy, and applies these constructs to the design of our research products. IMROMEASURE® aligns more with “model-based views of measurement”, and adopts principles from the “mathematical”, “realist”, “operationism” and “information-theoretic” views. IMROMEASURE® is then our own conception of “measurement”, and drives research design, analytics and implications development.

Measurement is an integral part of conducting research, and the thinking on measurement has been enriched through philosophical thinking. Our proprietary delivery technology IMROMEASURE® aligns with the “model-based views of measurement”, and adopts targeted principles from the “mathematical”, “realist”, “operationism” and “information-theoretic” views. IMROMEASURE® is then our own conception of “measurement”, and drives research design, analytics design and implications development.

Journey from truth to value

Value creation requires the infusion of truth about the state of business affairs. Leaders need a “true” view of topics such as performance, competition and motivation. And yet, deciphering and deploying “truth” in business remains challenging. Our proprietary delivery technology, VERITAS AD PRETIUM®, leverages philosophy and epistemology to structure the journey “from truth to value” in five parts: “defining truth and truthlikeness”, “conceiving the truth”, “conversations on truth”, “extracting truth” and “applying the truth”.

Mind of the organisation

Philosophy of measurement

Self-knowledge through introspection

Organised inquiry is the essence of research, and the individual’s consciousness is its prime mover. DAEMEQUALIA® is our proprietary delivery technology that works with the individual’s consciousness during the organised inquiry of research. For inquiry of the immediate environment, DAEMEQUALIA® draws from phenomenology, psychophysics, and structuralism. For inquiry beyond the immediate environment, it draws from reflective thinking, theoretical reasoning and practical reasoning.