Team 3:

The class was started with multidimensional thinking. it is nothing but thinking from many different perspectives on a subject matter, an essential skill to developing Critical Thinking capacity.it helps us to learn new things ,  solving high-value complex business problems.

Multidimensional scaling (MDS)

MDS is the technique that allows you to relate objects with each other and allows you to see is there any relationship between them in the form of map. Through this we can easily-assimilable graphic visualization of all sorts of data and we can measure how well or badly the data is.

PERMAP is a free, Windows-based program that uses multidimensional scaling (MDS) to reduce multiple pair wise relationships to 2-D pictures, commonly called perceptual maps. Such as product maps, strategic maps, sociograms, sociometric maps, psychometric maps, stimulus-response maps, relationship maps, concept maps, etc.).Its fundamental purpose is to uncover any "hidden structure" that might be residing in a complex data set.it must have at least 3 objects.

Purpose of PERMAP.

1.  PERMAP is to provide a particularly convenient method of producing perceptual maps by which we can reduce number of common mistakes.
2. PERMAP takes object-to-object proximity values (also called similarities, dissimilarities, correlations, distances, interactions, psychological distances, dependencies, confusability, preferences, joint or conditional probabilities, etc.), or up to 30 object attribute values which can be used to calculate one of the forgoing types of proximities, and uses (MDS) to make a map that shows the relationships between the objects.
3. PERMAP has been specifically designed to expose problems associated with local minima.

http://root5systemics.com/2013/07/multidimensional-thinking-leadership/

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140612044326-3594235-leadership-and-multi-dimensional-thinking