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Decision-making for the modern business landscape
Empowering quality and effective decision-making in teams through data- and people insights
The Decisionsmiths offer a unique consulting model aimed at empowering your team for effective, value-driven decision-making. We do this by gaining a unique insight into both your team's decision-making capabilities (what we call your decision wealth) and the collection of business data sets (the data wealth) of the organisation and putting them together in a workable business strategy. Specifically, we offer...
Data Analytics and Machine Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has rewritten our understanding of business as usual. It is our expectation that the conventional office organisational and culture will diminish over time, giving way to remote working solutions and revolutionised decision-making. This makes remote access to your data more important than ever before. We offer automated reporting, detailed and disciplined analytics and understandable machine learning solutions to ensure you get the most out of the data-wealth of the organisation. Please don't see the change in business as a threat, but rather as a unique opportunity to do business smarter, quicker and safer.
Individual Assessments and Decision Profiling
The Decisionsmiths offer a wide array of personal assessment instruments capable of profiling the cognitive-, risk- and value profiles of your organisation. It is our experience that a deep understanding of the personal psychology of the decision-makers of the organisation goes a long way towards ensuring quality, value-driven and risk-sensitive decisions.
To this end we offer a 19 item personal value set assessment, a 5-element personal risk questionnaire and an evolved cognitive profiling measurement (the CPP in association with Cognadev) to assess the full extent of decisioning-wealth of the organisation.
Decisioning and Strategising
Consultants often face the dreaded bottom-line question - "That's all well, son, but so what! How will this all benefit my business?"
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The Decisionsmiths are committed to lasting, change-making interventions designed to make a definitive impact on the business. Our aim is to gear organisations for empowered decisioning. This means we have the capability to take the information supplied by the decision-making profiles, couple it with the unique and wonderful data-wealth of the business and devise an intelligent, all-encompassing business strategy for the future. We employ a wide range of innovative and creative strategising tools to get to the core problems at hand. Backed up with real data, solid models and sound action plans we know how to empower your team to execute.
We're Good With Numbers
20
Years of Experience
15
Technologies Suported
30
Clients and growing
5
Strategic Partners
About Decisionsmiths
Dr Christoff Prinsloo, B. Eng (Chemical), MBA, PhD
Having recently completed a PhD at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science on values-driven decision-making, Christoff has launched a broad-based decision-making service to a client base spread across multiple industries.
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Value offering
Christoff is a born analyst and loves the fine art of extracting business value from unrefined data. He has an interesting and diverse background in South Africa's most challenging fields, making him the ideal person to investigate and advise on real-life decision-making scenarios.
Christoff essentially has
- the toolkit of a chemical engineer,
- the skills base of an MBA graduate
- and the statistical rigour and critical thinking skills of a doctoral candidate.
The Decisionsmiths targets the entire decision-making value chain by offering solutions to:
- data visualization,
- data analytics,
- decision-maker profiling,
- decision coaching and
- addressing the impact of personal value sets on decision behaviour.
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Experience
The following projects exhibit the extent of The Decisionsmiths's recent deployment:
- Qlik Sense BI models for clients in agriculture, mining, retail and insurance
- PowerBI predictive models for companies in the HR sector
- Decision-making consulting work for clients in the manufacturing, FMCG and metallurgy sectors
- Managerial consulting and strategic analysis for companies in the agriculture, pharma and HR sectors
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Skills
The Decisionsmiths employ and offer support for the following decision-making tools:
- Qlik Sense & Power BI - business intelligence, data visualisation and report automation
- SQL - data access and basic scripting
- Python Visualisation through Seaborn and Matplotlib
- InfraNodus - text analysis and unstructured data analysis
- RapidMiner, Weka, KNIME - machine learning platforms
- SPSS, AMOS, atlas.TI, Quatrics - research methodology
- Lego Serious Play, Business Model Canvas - strategy development and key decision-making discussions
Not-for-profit work
Our passion for decision-making extends beyond the business environment. We have assisted schools, religious organisations, clubs and individuals in improving the quality of the decision-making. These include:
- The University of Johannesburg, entrepreneurial day lecture on the application of the business model canvas,
- Introduction of a values-driven decision-making framework for a leading school in Mpumalanga and
- Leading a church to a new strategy using a Lego Serious Play workshop.
Client Testimonials
Dr Maretha Prinsloo
MD, Cognadev
Christoff assisted us in gaining a deeper understanding of our valuable CPP dataset. His knowledge of advanced data analysis produced a deep insight into the information that opened the door to amazing new applications of the product.
Robert Curlewis
CDO, Badger Holdings
Christoff has a unique talent for unlocking value from complex data. He knows how to find and tell a business story through analysis and visualisation.
Our Core Client List
Flanders Inc
Schoonbee Farming
Unusual Solutions
Hollard
Cognadev
Wispeco Aluminium
ALZU
RIC Consulting
GLPS
Blue Dawn Investments
Demonstration
The Whisky Database
Contact us
Email & Phone:
christoff@thedecisionsmiths.com
Tel: +27 83 468 0206
Address
12 Eeufees Street, Clubville, Middelburg, MP
South Africa