ISHEA Coherence Index
Measure your coherence Beta
Twelve questions about what you already know of yourself or your organisation. At the end, a report with your index, where coherence is leaking, and three things you can do this week.
Tool in beta: the questionnaire and the index calculation are being calibrated against real cases. Results are indicative.
- ORCID 0009-0004-1822-4798
- OSF xu5cj
- DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/UFW57
- Springer Nature Research Communities
- 391 archived pieces 180.749 words 5 rooms 2 years of archive
EICI = Energía × Información Fricción
Friction does not subtract: it divides. That is why an organisation with energy and good information can perform below a humbler one that simply has less drag.
Before you start
Same inside, different surroundings
Two of the twelve statements ask about friction that does not depend on you. The index formula does not change: what changes is that the report says where friction comes from and what the outside part costs, according to your own answers.
56 index · 68 without environment friction
the environment costs 12 points
57 index · 63 without environment friction
the environment costs 6 points
43 index · 57 without environment friction
the environment costs 14 points
Illustrative example. Three constructed states, not anyone's answers. The numbers come from the index formula.
0 / 12
Answer from 0 to 4 depending on how much each statement matches you.
Legal and use notice (ISHEA System)
This report is an automated technological analysis generated from the answers supplied by the person requesting it, processed with the cognitive-economics algorithms of the K-Model. ISHEA is not, and does not replace, a psychological, psychiatric or medical diagnosis. The data, indices and suggestions presented serve the sole purpose of guiding improvements in strategic performance, productivity and decision-making efficiency within a professional, corporate or organisational setting. Use of this information is the sole responsibility of the requester.
Transparency
Where this number comes from
Four rules, the same on screen, in the email and on the server. If they ever disagreed, the report would contradict itself.
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The index
Energy times Information, divided by Friction. Friction divides, it does not subtract: that is why an organisation with good energy and information can perform below a more modest one that runs without drag. The ratio is compressed so that answering «halfway» to all twelve lands on 50 and a full score sits in the nineties.
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The bands
Stable from 60, warning from 32, rupture below. With one exception: if friction goes past three quarters, the band is capped at warning however high the number comes out. A system wasting three quarters of what it moves is not stable.
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The factor that weighs most
Friction, if it is above 0.55 and weighs more than what the lower of the other two is missing. Otherwise, the lower of energy and information.
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Where it leaks
Within that factor, the question with the highest cost: the highest one if it is friction, the lowest if it is energy or information. And if everything is in place —energy and information above 0.85, friction below 0.15— none is pointed at: inventing a leak would be noise.
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Friction from outside
Of the four friction statements, two ask about friction imposed from outside and two about friction of your own. The two parts add up to what they added up to before, so the index does not change: a score issued before this gives the same number today. What is added is the reading — how many of every hundred come from outside, and what the number would be counting only your own friction. That is not what you would score in another country: it comes from your answers and nothing else. We use no rates, no statistics, no data from any territory.
Architecture
What sits beneath the index
The index is not a standalone tool: it is the visible face of the institute’s analytical engine.
ISHEA K-ENGINE
Central analytical engine
- Modelo K Theoretical foundation
- ISHEA Index Composite index
- R-Factor Resilience and adaptation
- C = I/E Coherence
- EM Energy margin
- Δ±1 Dynamics of change
Application modules
K-PERSON
Individual systems
K-CORPORATE
Organisations
K-GEO
Countries, cities and geopolitical systems
K-ECO
Ecological systems
In preparation
LEX — Coherence Exploration and Analysis System
LEX is the applied analytical environment through which the ISHEA K-Engine examines human, organisational, territorial and ecological systems. It is not a parallel engine: it is the layer from which the modules are reached.
A falsifiable framework
What it claims, and what would refute it
The framework is not offered as an established result but as a hypothesis with defined variables and a concrete way of being wrong.
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The hypothesis
A system holds its function while the energy available to it and the information that organises it stay in phase. When they decouple, function degrades before resources run out.
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The variables
Energy (E): resources available to act. Information (I): clarity about what to do with them. Friction (F): functional loss while turning the first into outcomes. All three are measured on the same normalised scale.
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The formula
The index combines them: the first two multiply, the third divides. An organisation with plenty of energy and information can perform below a more modest one if it drags more friction.
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What it predicts
That a fall in the index precedes a fall in observable performance; that high friction anticipates loss of conversion; and that the resilience factor improves prediction of recovery after a disturbance.
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What would refute it
That on independent datasets the index anticipates nothing a single variable does not already anticipate; that measured friction does not track observed loss; or that the same computation yields incompatible results across domains with no reason for it.
None of this is proven. It is published so that it can be tested, and the archive keeps earlier versions so the changes stay visible.
After the report
From the index to the real work
A self-assessment tells you where you stand. Serious analysis runs on your data, not on perceptions.
Self-assessment
Twelve questions and an index. Useful to locate yourself and to open the conversation with your team. Free, no sign-up.
Data-based analysis
The institute works on your figures: delivery, lead times, turnover, consumption. That is where the index stops being an impression.
Engagement
Work on the dominant friction point, and measurement of the effect over the following quarters.