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Szabolcs Aporszegi, President, 2006

"After the disastrous economic crisis in 2003 the SCIENTRIX approach (at the time called THENEXTSTEP) helped to put DaimlerChrysler Argentina back on a path to success. SCIENTRIX helped to design and implement a growth and export strategy which lead to 3 years historical results in market share and profitability"

Nelson Beete, Executive Chairman

"In 2005 the urban water supply coverage in Mozambique was about 40% and our goal was to achieve 60% by the end of the year 2009. At that stage our growth was about 2% per annum which meant that the goal was not going to be achieved. We have since then taken a series of measures to revert the tendency amongst them we introduced SCIENTRIX. From then on our growth reached 10% per annum. This is a historical achievement for FIPAG and the vision of 70% potable water to people is no longer a dream. As a matter of fact our target now is to reach excellence in service delivery and again SCIENTRIX is our preferred management approach and tool."

Rolf Epstein, Partner Strategic Finance Deloitte Consulting Germany – expert in value & performance management and strategy execution:

“What I like most about the matrix is the quality it induces to the dialogues within companies. To systematically link objectives, contributions and responsibilities ensures focus and alignment throughout the management areas which is an essential prerequisite for successful execution. Additionally, the seamless integration of measures and monitoring capabilities into the management process is unique to this method and enables outstanding value add for our clients in strategy execution."

Tamara Schenk: Head of "Special ICT Innovation Projects” at T-Systems, Germany

"The matrix is a great concept to make strategy implementation a task for the whole company! Breaking down the strategy to all areas and departments people are forced to describe their concrete input. And what's even more important: people see immediately, how they contribute to the company's overall targets! A great methodology, but it needs change management to be implemented successfully!"

Nicolette Barnard, Head of HR Business Partners and Specialists

"The Spiral Matrix allowed our HR specialist team at Siemens working on a very strategic project, to approach topics and challenges from more than one angle– it resulted in rich output with clear intent and focus.The project made a valuable contribution to our company's success to become the Engineering Employer of Choice."

Warren Hero, Head of E-Government

"Doing multi-year strategies in complex, highly dynamic environments was more miss then hit as not all variables and relationships could be expressed and accounted for. The matrix has enabled us to create a coherent understanding of the scope of our system. During the journey we converged our "language" and were able to extract and apply the tacit knowledge in everyone's heads to open creative spaces that helped us arrive at innovative solutions, across the length and breadth of our chosen discipline. The ability to contextualize our current interventions in the scope of our overall programme of transformation and the ability to do so visually and collaboratively has secured buy in and commitment from our principles."

Herman Lombard, Executive Director at Exactitude Consulting

"Strategy execution is both one of the best covered, and worst implemented activities in organizations today. Strategies are not properly clarified, communicated, aligned and measured at all levels of the organization. The Scientrix™ approach has found a very simplistic, yet innovative solution that address all these issues by combining in a single solution the ingenuity of the age old matrix, and the modern concept of integrative thinking."

Murray Falconer, Executive Business Transformation & Change Consultant

"As a management consultant I have seen many approaches over the years aimed at solving complex business conundrums, many of which were partially successful at taking the thinking forward and helping to develop solutions to these problems, however the drawback usually is the lack of flexibility across industry sectors or even across divisions and functions within a corporation. The methodology and toolset from Stracienta has inherent strengths in its simplicity and the journey that it takes the client business on, a journey of discovery about themselves with regard to where they are going, their true mission and objectives as a business, how they are organised to deliver on their objectives, and of course how truly aligned, or not, they are to the strategy. The Stracienta way allows the entire business, in any industry sector, to utilise the framework and the web-based tools, to make the journey, to re-align and re-shape themselves as a re-invigorated business that is truly delivering on their strategic plans, and with a 21st century online toolset at their disposal, they can track and change course as need in dynamic, real time fashion, literally as fast as their complex and competitive markets are evolving themselves. Truly a way of working for 21st century businesses."

Illona E. Wilken, Organisation Complexity Specialist & Executive Business Coach

"As an organisational complexity specialist and an executive business coach, I've always been challenged to facilitate executive teams to find structure and order in the complexity of their businesses. It is my job to assist them in simplifying the overwhelming challenge at hand, especially in Strategic Turn-around environments, yet I must facilitate them in being innovative and in creating a competitive advantage. Since I’ve been exposed to Scientrix™ and since I’ve been privileged to work with Stracienta in using, deploying and developing the Scientrix™ for clients, I’ve been awed by the greatness, the power and the value this methodology, this approach and the tool provides in developing a solution for corporate clients. The solution that evolves from the Scientrix™ is easy to understand by all levels in the business, and it is exciting as it provides the framework and “easy-to-follow steps” for execution and implementation. Scientrix™ the canvas that allows the executive management to explore, to craft and to tell the story of their business."

Bess Skosana, Head HR Absa Group Technology

"The Scientrix™ matrix has been instrumental in giving clarity to the Group Technology Human Resources strategy as well as aligning it to the Absa Group HR and business strategy. All stakeholders from employees, line and HR have played an instrumental role in designing the new strategy using the matrix. The matrix has given us clarity on how to operationalise and execute or strategy and who the different role players are. It has helped define our structure, performance indicators, the tracking and measurement thereof. It is a brilliant tool that can be used in solving any problem no matter how complex."

Azia Nxumalo, Group Manager Talent & Transformation, Sun International

"The Scientrix™ matrix enabled our team of focus on the key deliverables that would be pertinent to the achievement of the organization’s strategic objectives. The team also got to understand key dependencies from various work streams and the importance of aligning initiatives and focus on a high impact activities. The robust debate that came out of the process is invaluable in ensuring focus and ability to measure progress towards achievement of overall goals or redirecting efforts."

Mari-Louise van der Walt, MD Alakriti Consulting

"The SCIENTRIX approach has the ability to make a very complex problem or situation appear misleadingly simple. It is therefore invaluable for developing a comprehensive view of a multifaceted challenge, for ensuring a holistic approach to problem resolution and strategy development and to consistently apply (and assess) principles, cultures and priorities across all facets of an organisation."

Miguel Quintanilla, Vice President of Operations

"The use of Scientrix™ 2.0 (previously called THENEXTSTEP) in TUM has allowed us to make decisions based on relevant information that is well organized. The alignment of strategy with the organization enabled us to direct the organisation's energy to where we want to go. The ability to react timely to unexpected results based on the information provided by the system was something that positively surprised us . We cascaded the financial indicators down to operations in order to achieve the desired results."

Dave McCullough, Managing Director

“I find the spiral methodology simplistic, creative it helps to make everyone in the organization accountable. It is the most progressive web based tool I have come across to assist any part of an organization, no matter how large or small, to design, communicate and implement strategy."

Diego Hoter, Strategy Director

"I love the way it made our teams think how they could create value for the business. To really understand the benefits of this powerful approach, you have to go through the process: the final picture builds itself like a great puzzle that perfectly fits together- right in front of your own eyes. Just going through the Scientrix™ process itself yields enormous benefits to any management team; and the intuitive Scientrix™ software makes it very easy to manage the output."

Pini Beltrando, Deloitte Partner in Mexico

"SCIENTRIX™ is a next generation management approach that integrates strategy and performance measurement – giving one conclusive view. SCIENTRX™ delivers strategy execution through an integrated planning, implementation and monitoring approach, optimizing the benefits derived from planning. It integrates all strategy components in an easy but deep way, ensuring that the whole organization, from the CEO to the employees, remain focused on their specific contribution towards the achievement of the strategic objectives of the company."

John Biller, Executive Strategy Advisor

"Managing your business and getting people to implement initiatives in order to achieve your goals is one of the challenges faced by business owners and management. Using SCIENTRIX enables an organisation to structure tasks and set objectives and as the solution is web-based it enables the monitoring of progress at any time. Participation includes as many levels of involvement as required which leads to people taking ownership and committing to the achievement of goals. The methodolology, interestingly enough, is not restricted to strategy & execution, but can be used in all aspects of management where both creative and structured thinking is required."

Andries Malan, Vice President Technology

"There is nothing like Scientrix™ when it comes to solving large scale problems collaboratively and in the process generating a flurry of new ideas that translate broad desires into concrete action plans."

Annie Snyman, Senior Manager Deloitte Consulting

“It is all about making an organisation’s strategy successful! Scientrix™ is wonderful to focus an organisation’s attention on the right priorities and give each person in the organisation a way and tools to drive the parts they are responsible for in ensuring an organisation’s success.”

Melanie Loubser, Executive Business Consultant

"The beauty of the SCIENTRIX-Matrix is that it provides for innovative structured thinking in enhancing strategy establishment and implementation in organizations. The thorough way in which strategic challenges are addressed adds a huge amount of value to increase productivity levels and drive behavior. Through this approach an understanding is created amongst employees of where the organization is aiming at and how it will get there."

Wasfie Ismail , Group Manager, Strategic Planning

"The XYZ of the Matrix approach to organizations is synonymous to the DNA of living organisms ... just as the DNA enables development and functioning of all known living organisms, the XYZ Matrix approach facilitates the development and functioning of organizations."