Driven to Find Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges
Through his education in mathematics and the culture of the once prospering IT-services company EDS, Eugen Oetringer learned to find and solve fundamental root causes of tough problems. He became the main inventor and has operational experiences with what is now called Guided Self-Organisation: As much freedom as possible; as much direction as needed. Implemented for 30.000 employees, it changed the culture without a culture change project and enabled agile decision making across organizations. When implemented, it was ahead of its time. Today, these experiences point to functionality needs to make transformation projects to Business-Agile executable and durable.
Beyond EDS, he was granted a patent in brain-based artificial intelligence. For mental matters, such as dyslexia, ADHD and autism, he proposed traffic jams in the brain as the missing link between causes and symptoms. He argues that brain architecture, extraordinary treatment results and the difficulty of finding research having applied techniques, such as the alternative route proposals to avoid traffic jams on the road, point straight to this being the case.