Austhink bCisive

Consulting Magazine's Best Practices Event -- Austhink, a vendor of critical thinking software, today unveiled a major addition to the management consultant's toolkit: bCisive(TM). With the introduction of bCisive(TM), there is finally a software package that directly supports hierarchical structured thinking, such as the Minto Pyramid Principle(R), a foundational methodology within successful consulting firms.

bCisive(TM) addresses the pain points that are top-of-mind for management consultants including:
-- Training staff in key consulting thinking disciplines
-- Rapid development of logic trees
-- Internal team collaboration and task assignment
-- Improved communication and engagement with clients



"Structured thinking is the essence of management consulting. It gives consultants their edge," says Austhink's CEO, renowned cognitive scientist Dr. Tim van Gelder. "However, until now, there has been no tool that directly supports this activity. Instead, consultants have had to improvise with PowerPoint or Visio, which instead of speeding up the critical thinking process, can often slow it down and make it more frustrating."

A cornerstone of the new tool is bCisive's unmatched ease-of-use and application for critical thinking, which is based on years of scientific research and extensive testing in the workplace. The creation of bCisive(TM) for management consultants follows Austhink's success in creating critical thinking applications that have been used in government, law firms, large corporations and universities. For instance, Austhink's software is increasingly the critical thinking solution of choice for U.S. intelligence agencies as well as Australian academic communities. Now, with bCisive(TM), Austhink is building off of its success in other realms and is setting its sights on solving the pains plaguing management consulting.