Prelude Management, LLC is a “consilience” consulting company. The word consilience originated as the phrase “consilience of inductions” by William Whewell, but when one reads, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson (1999), they are immediately impressed with Wilson’s linking of the various fields of knowledge. Wilson links the theories of knowledge in the disciplines from: physics, to biology, social cultures, and, of course, the humanities. By combining these theories of knowledge into one approach one comes to the understanding of Edward Wilson’s definition of: consilience.
Another author with a similar approach to a type of “consilience” is Umberto Eco in his book, Kant and the Platypus (1997), he uses the term “semiotics”. How our mind learns from itself through: spatiotemporal events (pertinent, curios, and intriguing); perception of event attentionality (luminous, thermic, tactile, and interceptive); and parameters (predictables, genera, species and differences). Semiotics is a personal approach to the gaining of knowledge while consilience is knowledge through the disciplines.
Why did I mention Umberto Eco’s definition of “semiotics”, because that is how most business’ approach business solutions; by what the bussiness has personally experienced. This approach is limiting for today’s global markets and global solutions. Thus the description, consilience consulting.
The name Prelude Management speaks for itself, our company comes before the objective.
Ruth Hanke, PhD