Who are we?
Wayne Borchardt, PhD
Wayne Borchardt is the founder and chief executive of The Decision Advisory Group, founded in 2017, based in Cape Town, South Africa.
This is his third career having originally trained and practised as an engineer, then spent 23 years with Accenture, the last 11 of which as a Managing Director in the Strategy practice.
His strategy and management consulting experience has been with multinationals and large local firms in Africa (South Africa, Nigeria, Namibia), Europe (UK, Germany) and Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia). His industry experience is in Consumer Goods, Retail, Industrial Equipment, Healthcare, and Automotive.
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His functional focus and passion is Strategic Decision Making, where he spearheaded the development, training and communication of Behavioral Science and Decision Analysis concepts within Accenture Strategy, ran the training for four years at Accenture’s global Strategy College, and is now independently providing education and niche consulting services in that space.
Ph.D. (Behavioural strategy) (Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, 2021); Professional Certificate in Strategic Decision and Risk Management (Stanford University, Palo Alto, 2016); Kellogg’s Advanced Business Management Program (Northwestern University, Chicago, 2001); M.Sc (Engineering) (University of Cape Town, 1992).
Jon Jaaback
Jon Jaaback is an associate of TDAG, based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Jon is an analytical problem solver with a successful 20-year track record in management consulting (predominantly Strategy and Finance and Performance Management and including 15 years as a member of the Accenture Strategy practice), venture creation (corporate and independent start
ups, all with revolutionary business models, some as founder) and program management.
Jon's earlier background was as a professional civil engineer, with 10 years of diverse consulting and contracting experience.
B.Sc Eng. (University of KZN, 1986), PG Dip Eng. (University of Cape Town, 1993), MBA (University of Cape Town, 1997)