PraXophy
Practical Wisdom for Impactful Results
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PraXophy: "practical wisdom"

Launched in 2012 as a sole proprietorship and incorporated in 2019, PraXophy has a decade of performance providing enterprise-level services and support aimed at enabling human flourishing. PraXophy is a consulting firm offering unique enterprise-level decision analysis, executive management, strategic planning, program development and execution, organizational design and behavior, human capital development, and project selection and portfolio management services.


Areas of Expertise

Business Analytics 

  • Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS)

  • Spreadsheet models

  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Consulting, Teaching, and Coaching

  • Business Analytics, Project Management, and Finance courses (government students)

  • Certified capability evaluator for the INFORMS Analytics Maturity Model (IAMM)

  • Conference presentations

  • Peer-reviewed journal publications

Decision Intelligence Engineering

  • Value-Focused Thinking and Systems Thinking

  • Psychology and social science disciplines

  • Python programming and Artificial Intelligence

Continuous Process Improvement

  • Lean Six Sigma

  • Value Stream Mapping

Portfolio, Program, and Project Management

  • PMI-certified traditional waterfall method (PMP)

  • PMI-certified in Agile methodology (ACP)

 

Past Results

Decision Analysis, Alternative Development

for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness)

  • Managing equities across all Services and Components

  • Synchronizing change metrics in a dynamic budget environment

  • Balancing the tension between requirements and constraints

Value-Focused Thinking, Operations Research and Systems Analysis

for Multi-National Corps Iraq

  • Operational Plans and Effects assessment.

  • Collecting data to tell a story impactfully

  • Finding meaning in black market prices

  • Influencing opinions and outcomes

Continuous Process Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, TRIZ

for Under Secretary of the Army (Office of Business Transformation)

  • Squeeze waste from inefficient institutional processes to fund unprogrammed operations.

  • Process inventories, Value Stream Maps, scoring functions, and metrics.

  • Considering equities while disrupting stove-piped systems and communications patterns

  • Can this person with this equipment do this job?

Modeling, Simulation, Testing, and Evaluation

for Army G-3/5/7

  • Hypothesis testing

  • Scenario planning

  • Massive multi-player wargames

  • Modeling vehicles, skills, and formations

  • Crew rest simulation and judgement

  • Fight: desert, woodland, urban, jungle, arctic

Training Effectiveness Operations Research and Analysis, SHARP

for Army G-1

  • Are education programs working?

  • Changing behavior strengthens culture, reinforces value

  • Reporting accuracy/data entry

  • Instrument design people say what they think will be “right”

Performance Assessment  Warrior Care Policy

for the Asst Sec Def (Health Affairs)

  • Conducted studies on effectiveness of training programs with statistical analyses

  • Are rehabilitation programs working as designed/desired? Skill development, job placement, military adaptive sports programs

  • Return to Normal? Rebuild to a new normal, measuring progress on the SMILE Score

  • Solving database compatibility issues: diverse systems, reporting problems, data entry errors

 

Leaders face hard, high-stakes choices. We help them achieve impactful results through:

  • Transparent, data-fueled decision-making

  • Enterprise-level decision analysis

  • Strategic planning support

  • Program development and execution

  • Organizational design and behavior

  • Human capital development

  • Project selection and project portfolio management 

 

Contact PraXophy today.