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Introducing Francois van der Walt - Senior Business Analyst

news April 20, 2009, 13:40PM

BSc (South Africa), BSc Honours (South Africa)

Member:  Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia, Statistical Society of Australia, Australian Organisation for Quality

 

FrancoisFrancois is a recognised authority on utilising advanced statistical analysis for Business Performance Measurement and Business Intelligence. He brings a wealth of experience, gained on three different continents to GJI.

 

During thirteen years with Ernst & Young he was National Director of a new service line, Data Engineering Services. This was later introduced world-wide when he became the head of an international team of professionals focusing on Continuous Audit as part of Ernst & Young’s Audit Innovation Project in the USA.

 

Throughout his career he worked in a wide range of industries in both public and private sectors. His assignments included working on behalf of SAS Institute to implement the analysis of customer behaviour with the aim of identifying potential fraud at a major gaming company. He also used SAS Enterprise Miner for the prediction and identification of clients that might leave a mobile phone company.

 

He has chosen to join the GJI team with the focus of developing their iPredict service line through applying tools like SAS and methodologies like Six Sigma to predict customer behaviour during marketing campaigns.

 

Francois firmly believes that any company can vastly improve their performance utilising proven measurement and prediction techniques as demonstrated by companies that followed Edward Deming’s philosophy.

 

He has conducted projects related to Business Intelligence in most industries including:

SAS
  • Retail
  • Accounting and auditing
  • Manufacturing
  • Leisure and gaming
  • Banking and insurance
  • Government

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