Practical Decision Intelligence
The Purpose, People and Passion of SmartOrg
Better Decisions with Less Pain = Improved Results
How many painful clusterf*ck decision meetings have you been involved in recently?
SmartOrg’s founders spent years inside organizations helping executives respond to business challenges, and three patterns became clear:
- Decision-making is a slog for almost everyone involved.
- Bias and sloppy reasoning have crept into many business processes, leaving a lot of success up to chance.
- Even small improvements in Decision Intelligence lead to better results with far less pain and dysfunction.
Since 2000, we’ve combined hands-on experience with rigorous Decision Science to hone best practices and develop the software to put them into action. Our customers skip the pain and go straight to better results by having the data and insights they need to align on great choices.
Hello!
David Matheson
President and CEO
Have you ever tried making sauerkraut ice cream? I have, and I don’t recommend it. For me, life is an adventure shared: I co-organize a neighborhood Street Gym (it is exactly what it sounds like), cycle frequently with my peeps, and lead backpacking trips into the High Sierras. Ask me to try something new and I’ll rarely say no. I’m curious about everything and have accumulated a life’s experience of testing and refining received wisdom. In my professional life, it’s been a great adventure working in industries ranging from movie production to nuclear waste cleanup, seeing the common patterns that can be applied almost everywhere. Here’s a recommendation I can make unequivocally: bring dark chocolate to every meeting.
When the hobby kit drone flies through the office on Monday, you know I’ve had a fun weekend. An engineer to my core, I’ve spent a life focused on making things work and doing cool stuff. After stepping through a rotten board on my deck, I spent a year rebuilding the whole thing. The best part? Buying new tools! (And then building a tool chest to hold them all.) At SmartOrg, I get to apply my engineering mojo by leading our software development efforts and adapting the platform to exciting and important problems in many industries. What is the coolest thing you’ve made?
Dave Wachenschwanz
Director of Development
Doug Williams
Associate Director,
Innovation
My cymbal crash closes the song, the band perfectly in sync as we finish our set. The high of performing never gets old, even if it means packing up gear long past midnight. Being the drummer in an alternative rock band isn’t so different from how I work: hours of preparation, setting the rhythm and tempo, and knowing that only through collaboration with other talented people can we create something great. When I’m not working, you’ll find me cooking for my family, catching live music in the Boston clubs, or geeking out over track and field. I live north of Boston with my wife, our twin boys, and our 100-pound labradoodle—who very much runs the house. I’m also rumored to be unnaturally good at folding fitted sheets.
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