Our Approach Draws From Multiple Disciplines
- Break down each business challenge into factors, similar to the McKinsey MECE way (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive), and then arrive at a 'solution set' using our experience and our Knowledge Base. So Alpha Neuron is as a system fed by experiences of a wide range of business professionals, that has 1300+ business challenges and solutions from different industries, interlinked after rigorous analysis.
- Simulate problem solving approaches of successful executives from different industries. For example: Andrew Grove of Intel evaluating the potential a new technology, Bill Gates of Microsoft increasing market share, or Laxmi Mittal of Arcelor Mittal Steel doing business consolidation.
- We also emphasize on visual structuring of a business challenge, because it has been proven to put more of your brain power to use. When the elements of a difficult decision are represented visually, we often discover links and insights that we had missed using numbers or text. In fact, our Asset Web (shown above) is an example of exactly such approach.
- Leverage New Findings: Some of the questions in our work are: How do executives gather and arrange information? Now that decision X worked in Industry A, what can make it work in industry B? How to factor varying risk-reward tolerance? We are also constantly trying to factor in research findings from leading institutions like the Harvard Medical School and the Decision Sciences group at MIT.
"...I think 80 percent of the time the best decision is waiting to be found. You're not guessing; you just do your homework, get the right people, and you find it. It just kind of surfaces out of the work and the analysis and the thought."
- Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPM Chase
We regularly observe many managers stop asking the full range of "What Ifs?", because they feel the answers are not there, or it will take a long process to get the any useful data. Avoid this self-trap as much as possible. Please don’t stop asking What If?
Feedback
"Your inputs have been very helpful for our business planning. You have made us think hard about our plans." - Managing Director, Manufacturing company
"Your suggestions have helped in deciding next steps for a key technology-led initiative, and I will seek your inputs on our other initiatives..." - Director, Software Solutions company
"The clarity of your solution helped us take difficult steps" - VP, Finance company
Over the last 5 years, we have built the largest collection of business decisions and solutions worldwide.
- All data and business decisions are real-life. They have been meticulously obtained from numerous reliable sources, including our team’s first hand experience at executive management level, from peers who are VPs/ Directors/CXOs of companies, our professional network, and credible business reports.
- Considerable analysis goes behind each entry in our database. So when we will tell you something is working out good or bad, we will support it with real-life examples.
Our focus is to give you insights based on Facts - to help you (as a business owner or manager) to make successful business decisions and take necessary follow-up action.
Our Approach combines 1300+ business decisions with the risk-reward approach of different business leaders. To put this in perspective, the average number of business decisions taken per month is about 3 by a Manager, 5 by a VP, and 8 by a CXO. Thus, the AlphaNeuron system available to you is equivalent to a team of 20+ CXOs across business functions.
The Result is a set of 'solution alternatives' that can give rapid inputs to business owners and managers to define/refine business plans, evaluate new/ongoing projects, and handle difficult negotiations.
Toolkit
What are your difficult decisions trying to achieve?
Our normal approach to handling business problems and decision making works for 90% cases, but it is the remaining 10% diffcult problems/challenges, which often matter the most, where our normal approach is unlikely to succeed -- often because the complexity and multiple dimensions involved.
They are trying to protect, and grow, your key business assets. Based on hundreds of observations, we have classified them into 6 types of assets- and they impact each other - so they can be considered as an ‘Asset Web’.
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Better Business Decisions
