Quantellia CEO Mark Zangari shows how, in the face of globalization, downsizing, a data deluge, and other factors, today's leaders are facing a new level of managing complexity within public and private organizations. He describes a number of new management approaches and tools that are being used today, whch leverage visual, systems thinking about complex interdependent organizations. As part of the presentation, Zangari discusses a number of micconceptions about the role of data in effective governance and decision-making, along with several best practices for conquering complex environments.

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Overview: Conquering
Complexity
Mark Zangari
CEO and Cofounder
Mark.Zangari@quantellia.com +1 303 717 4221
Quantellia, Inc. http://www.quantellia.com

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Organizations need to
do more with less, and
act faster than ever
before

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To be successful, top leaders are
relying on a new breed of tools to
ensure they meet their objectives.

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Decision Engineering
A comprehensive methodology and software
suite built to address the world’s next challenge:
effective decision making in complex
environments

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The Complexity Problem
• Assessing the impact of decisions is
exceedingly difficult in complex systems.
• Hard to manage in-flight changes
• Too many interdependent factors.
• Hard to enforce effective governance/oversight.
• Not enough time
• External change happens faster than the time
needed to assess the impacts of that change.
• Time frames under competitive pressure cannot
support “Ready, aim, fire”

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Challenges
• How can a complex system be represented in a
way that facilitates management understanding
and organisational alignment, and yet still retains
the complexity of the system’s behaviour?
• Can sufficient data about complex systems be
gathered, and to the level of accuracy needed, to
support decisions?

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Our Solution
• Decision Engineering
• Utilise proven best practices and
techniques from disciplines that have
faced similar complexity challenges
• Manage complexity by:
• Identifying simple subsystems
• Modelling simple subsystems and interactions between them.

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Our Solution
• Decision Engineering
• Utilize proven best practices and
techniques from disciplines that have
faced similar complexity challenges.
• Manage complexity by:
• Identifying simple subsystems
• Modelling simple subsystems and interactions between them.
• Visual language
• Graphically represent objects and all interdependencies.
• Aligns all participants by providing tangible, visual representation and
common vocabulary.
• Desktop simulation environment
• Direct integration to data sources.
• Transparent, in-depth “what-if” analysis. Winner 2009 Microsoft
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“Essential to the next generation of business intelligence systems
is the ability to visualize not just the data used to support
decisions, but also the decisions themselves. Together, Lorien
and Mark have created the world’s first decision modeling
methodology and software, which meets this essential need in
both the commercial and nonprofit worlds.”
-Lynn Langit, Microsoft Developer Evangelist and author of the book Smart
Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008

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"In an age of global complexity, the time for making
decisions is ever-shrinking, and the cost of bad choices
too great to tolerate. Quantellia created a tool for
making the right decisions in this environment.”
-Guy Pfeffermann, former Chief Economist of the International Finance
Corporation (World Bank); Founder and CEO of the Global Business School
Network (www.gbsnonline.org).

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“Anyone facing complex decisions with many participants and
stakeholders, mounds of data, and limited resources to address
the decision-making process, should look closer at visualization
tools such as Quantellia’s offering. Visualized decision support—
decision engineering—is fast becoming a key part of effective
business management.”
-KarlWhitelock, Director Strategy – OSS/BSS, Stratecast, a Division of Frost
and Sullivan (www.frost.com ).

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Quantellia’s Solution: Decision
Engineering
A comprehensive methodology and software
suite built to address the world’s next challenge:
effective decision making in complex
environments
Quantellia offers training, consulting, and software solutions. Contact us at
inquiries@quantellia.com or visit http://www.quantellia.com
Thank you!