Business Analysis and Sensemaking

We bring our critical thinking to the table, helping you navigate complexity, benchmark your performance, and gain valuable insights from your environment so you can forecast with confidence and make informed decisions.

We will support your enterprise business teams to:

  • Use a variety of tools and techniques to evaluate the environment.
  • Apply various types of thinking and reasoning to a problem.
  • Understand and apply systems theory for environmental scanning.
  • Translate complexity frameworks into something that will deliver practical outcomes.
  • Apply current research techniques to gain qualitative and quantitative insight into your organisation.
  • We use multiple tools to support business analysis and sensemaking. For example understanding how to forecast, sidecast and backcast:

    Cognitive Edge

    Best in class business analytics rely on the use of forecasting, back casting and side casting to design robust business systems and processes. This helps to make sense of the environment then benchmark to relevant, comparative examples and better thinking and problem solving.

    Based on the requirements of the planning being done, we enable you to identify and adopt the right mental model to best understand the complexities you face in achieving your vision. These models help explain the thought process about how something works and can be:

  • Inductive (predict based on experience) or deductive (testing an existing theory).
  • emergent (analogical argument) or reductive (straw man arguments).
  • divergent (going wide) or convergent (narrowing down options).
  • adaptive (applied to a different field) or maladaptive (misapplied).
  • Business Analysis & Sense Making - Client Stories

    Virtus Health

    Rio Tinto

    Australian Water Association

    Adash Janiszewski

    Chief Executive Officer

    Adash is Providence’s CEO and is responsible to the Providence Board and Providence’s clients for ensuring the timely delivery of outcomes through advice, guidance and mentoring to Providence’s staff.