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SIXTHSENSE About Us - Strategic Levers

Among the hundreds of improvement initiative investments available to any organization, there exist Strategic Levers, untapped opportunities with the greatest ability to significantly increase the value of the company. The challenge is to identify them among the hundreds of other, less impactful potential initiatives.

Many significant strategic opportunities such as new technology investments and M&A activities entail significant investment and risks. The opportunities uncovered through the SIXTHSENSE process generally entail low risk and low investment.

The number of interacting dimensions in today’s business enterprises is large and the immense complexity of the continuous interaction of these myriad parameters obscures all but a small number of the most obvious relationships.

Over the last 20 years we have adapted for use in general business environments the analytic methods that we had previously developed while optimizing very complex high tech manufacturing processes.

As part of this adaptation, we have developed proprietary methods (see Affective/Perceptual Analytics section) of interviewing and surveying both customer and employee groups that get at the truly meaningful factors driving behavior.

A critical aspect of our methodologies is the integration and analysis of these “soft” data sets with the “hard” financial/operational data which enables us to understand the interactions in the hard quantitative manner needed to guide rational investment decisions.