Author

Scientific bases

I studied at Leiden University, faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. I did my candidate exam in biochemistry. After that I did scientific research in the field of brain structures and functioning. The findings of this research were published in ‘the Journal of Comparative Neurology’

After the brain research, I focused on the philosophy of science, more specifically on the overlap area of logic and mathematics. After my doctoral degree in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, I studied business administration and followed various courses in ICT.

DSS and algorithms developed with Innovation subsidy and Evidence-based

After my studies, I was, among other things, commercial director of an Orthopaedic Training Institute and worked as an independent consultant and interim manager. In that period, I developed some basic methods and techniques for making reliable strategic choices. As a result, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs granted me an innovation subsidy, after which I developed Decision Support Software with the help of programmers (of my own company) and deployed it in hundreds of companies (see cases/references).

Approximately from 2014 (as a result of some international publications) my activities led to the Decision Making (software) Concept and the present book in which the software concept is mentioned in some places. My starting point for decision making issues and solutions has always been the desire to combine practice and science. Already from 1995 such collaborations arose as with the Dutch Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Wageningen.

From 2014: the state of the art of making reliable strategic choices

From about 2014, I started both fundamental scientific research and practical research into the latest insights, methods and techniques of the decision-making process. In that research it became clear that Decision Support Systems and Business Intelligence Systems are not sufficient to be able to make reliable strategic choices at the highest strategic level and that decision makers need a system that is ‘above’ the DSS and BIS, as it were: a state of the art system that includes specific decision-making methods, techniques, algorithms and software.

Since then, I have developed new techniques and algorithms that are specifically suited for the highest level of decision-making. These include the ‘Brus scaling algorithms’, the RP-Index®, the RP-Matrix® and the ‘Brus Multi Criteria Algorithms’. These significantly increase the chance of achieving a formulated Strategic Goal and make it possible to test the validity and reliability of the entire decision-making model and process for each decision-making project. See the cases / references on the homepage and the Table of Content.