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Co-founder Dr. Alexander Ploghaus discovers that the human brain operates similarly to artificial neural networks. Research positions at Oxford and Harvard University, publications in Science & other high impact journals, global media coverage
Co-founders Sebastian Schwaiger and Mario Roser live in the same student dorm, while Alexander supervises Mario’s B.A. thesis on Mergers and Acquisions. Sebastian is an IBM scholar studying computer science while Mario is on a Germany National Scholarship studying industrial engineering
Mario Kesseler, Daniel von Bechen and Felipe Pahlke join the company. Mario, an industrial engineer with a special interest in business model innovation, builds up our consulting activities and international design patent protection. Daniel, software developer and globetrotter, takes the lead in building the ChangeMaker frontend. Felipe, mathematician and hobby japanologist, designs StrategyScan as well as the ChangeMaker KPI functions
2014
Management consultancies start using ChangeMaker with their clients to boost collaboration and ensure post-engagement success. Since then, a growing number of consultancies has replaced the usual tool zoo with ChangeMaker to increase impact and efficiency of their projects
2016
Bayer/Covestro, Deutsche Bahn, Infineon, Philips and other European multinationals decide to use ChangeMaker for their high impact corporate projects
2018
Principia Mentis expands its office space in Munich, thanks to new colleagues strengthening our team. Darren Crossley takes the lead in designing the GUI of our next-generation ChangeMaker, and Mats Weinand drives our activities to build media around ChangeMaker to complete the user experience
2020
We embark on the biggest project since foundation: ChangeMaker FIVE. A completely new tech stack optimized for scalability, security and performance. Enabling us to develop powerful functionality fast and agile. Meanwhile, ChangeMaker programs around supply chain risk management are becoming our stable companion in COVID times
2022
ChangeMaker FIVE: Released. In addition to the new web application, our ecosystem now includes a mobile app, an Excel plugin, an MS Teams integration and other useful tools to increase speed and target achievement of management programs. Three new data science colleagues push our AI platform designed to extract best practices and further enhance ChangeMaker impact. As of autumn, energy savings programs become a notable program category in ChangeMaker
70% of change projects fail to reach their targets. Alexander examines the underlying causes and develops solutions while being in the leadership of McKinsey’s European automotive and organization sectors
Alexander, Sebastian and Mario formally found the firm. The name Principia Mentis, evocative of Newton’s main work, reveals their approach: Turning the design principles of the human mind into software design principles
Our customer #1: Hoppecke Industry Batteries – true entrepreneurs, as not only this bold decision shows. Later that year, ZEISS starts using ChangeMaker for productivity programs, and a national government commits all its policy initiatives to ChangeMaker. This helps to raise awareness for our product
2015
Dr. Florian Finck, philosopher and mathematician with long-standing experience in strategy consulting, boosts the expertise of Principia Mentis in the fields of business transformation and many other consulting formats
2017
Top-tier global consulting partners start their worldwide deployment of ChangeMaker for their projects. We expand our infrastructure to provide fast service to clients in all geographies
2019
Based on 7 years of ChangeMaker market experience, consulting methods and scientific findings, we begin to develop designated templates per management project type. The first template, for initiative programs, is being rolled out with the ChangeMaker PHOENIX edition
2021
Simple, intuitive use is key – we nearly triple our ChangeMaker FIVE design and development capacity to digest all the useful input coming from pilot customers and consulting partners. Andreas Bergmaier, leading our backend development, invents the Facet, a milestone achievement enabling management-ready answers from the data cube. Out there, OKRs are on the rise in ChangeMaker, demonstrating a notable shift in performance management
Co-founder Dr. Alexander Ploghaus discovers that the human brain operates similarly to artificial neural networks. Research positions at Oxford and Harvard University, publications in Science & other high impact journals, global media coverage
70% of change projects fail to reach their targets. Alexander examines the underlying causes and develops solutions while being in the leadership of McKinsey’s European automotive and organization sectors
Co-founders Sebastian Schwaiger and Mario Roser live in the same student dorm, while Alexander supervises Mario’s B.A. thesis on Mergers and Acquisions. Sebastian is an IBM scholar studying computer science while Mario is on a Germany National Scholarship studying industrial engineering
Alexander, Sebastian and Mario formally found the firm. The name Principia Mentis, evocative of Newton’s main work, reveals their approach: Turning the design principles of the human mind into software design principles
Mario Kesseler, Daniel von Bechen and Felipe Pahlke join the company. Mario, an industrial engineer with a special interest in business model innovation, builds up our consulting activities and international design patent protection. Daniel, software developer and globetrotter, takes the lead in building the ChangeMaker frontend. Felipe, mathematician and hobby japanologist, designs StrategyScan as well as the ChangeMaker KPI functions
Our customer #1: Hoppecke Industry Batteries – true entrepreneurs, as not only this bold decision shows. Later that year, ZEISS starts using ChangeMaker for productivity programs, and a national government commits all its policy initiatives to ChangeMaker. This helps to raise awareness for our product
2014
Management consultancies start using ChangeMaker with their clients to boost collaboration and ensure post-engagement success. Since then, a growing number of consultancies has replaced the usual tool zoo with ChangeMaker to increase impact and efficiency of their projects
2015
Dr. Florian Finck, philosopher and mathematician with long-standing experience in strategy consulting, boosts the expertise of Principia Mentis in the fields of business transformation and many other consulting formats
2016
Bayer/Covestro, Deutsche Bahn, Infineon, Philips and other European multinationals decide to use ChangeMaker for their high impact corporate projects
2017
Top-tier global consulting partners start their worldwide deployment of ChangeMaker for their projects. We expand our infrastructure to provide fast service to clients in all geographies
2018
Principia Mentis expands its office space in Munich, thanks to new colleagues strengthening our team. Darren Crossley takes the lead in designing the GUI of our next-generation ChangeMaker (to be released in Q1/2019), and Frederik Knape drives our activities to build media around ChangeMaker to complete the user experience
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