Data-Driven Problem Solving

Businesses invest significant time and effort exploring solutions, yet the most critical question often goes unanswered: What problem are we actually solving?
Success requires a disciplined, scientific approach—one that prioritizes clarity, accountability, and data-driven decision-making. A problem, by definition, is any barrier preventing your organization from reaching its objectives, often tied to how work is structured and executed.
Leveraging proven methodologies like A3 Decision Making, we help businesses systematically innovate, plan, and solve challenges—turning obstacles into opportunities for growth.

“Once problems are thoroughly understood, potential solutions will begin to reveal themselves.”

— John Shook

Deep-Dive Promotional Analysis helped a $500M e-commerce retailer improve gross profit by 30%.

Business had tried increasing volume through more aggressive use of promotions and needed help understanding impact
SDMES created data sets, analytic tools and dashboards to investigate incremental impact of promotions
Implemented a Plan, Do, Check, Act process that reduced promo rate and improved shipping income and gross margin

Led a Lean Management Project focused on the Go-To-Market value stream that reduced workload by 25%.

Led a cross-functional Value Stream Mapping project for the Go-To-Market Strategy
Prioritized Improving Product Discovery with Efficient & Accurate Product Information Management
Through A3 Problem Solving, identified root causes and built a project plan with countermeasures to drive continuous improvement

Testimonials

George has extremely strong quantitative skills and expertly uses them to make sound business decisions. In addition, he is very adept at communicating the results of complex analysis in a way that is easy for others to understand.

Andrew Burke, VP & Controller, Cornerstone Brands
George is holistically business minded supporting both financial and analytical functions as well as creative innovation. George is an innovative thinker and demonstrated that skill set to manage sevearl industry challenges as an executive.

Kara Jaggers, VP Merchandising, Cheryl’s Cookies
With a deep understanding of complex issues, and the ability to communicate them succinctly, he moves decision making along collaboratively and with drive. He seeks the right answer, not the easy one, and can think both holistically and precisely, targeting the cause of business challenges, not the symptoms.

Jason Jones, President, grandinroad

George has extremely strong quantitative skills and expertly uses them to make sound business decisions. In addition, he is very adept at communicating the results of complex analysis in a way that is easy for others to understand.