About

Distinctive Solutions was founded in 2016 and has already been engaged by various large multinational organisations, through a variety of industries (Mining, Telecommunications, Logistics, Automotive manufacturing and sales, retail and financial/insurance institutions). The networks and relationships coupled with the credibility of successful past deliveries at reputable firms on projects which was managed by current founder Johan Oelofse, has provided a solution to service a specific need in the market. Providing a competitive, agile, impact, no-nonsense, effective and rapid engagement with a personal, symbiotic relationship and gritty passion to drive successful outcomes.

Distinctive Solution’s focus is designed around injecting operational excellence into the organisational DNA at the early stages of business cycle and aligning the efforts with the organisational strategy and objectives. It is the DS belief that improvement is a deliberate and planned event within any organisation and need to be accurately aligned and integrated into all parts of the organisation to be truly successful. The DS OE journey is based on 3 fundamental questions:

Play where?

Where should the valuable organisational resources be deployed and what should the focus on?

Win How?

What is the designed road-map and plan efforts for execution, that will successfully drive and deliver the required improvements and transnational efforts.

What is needed?

What are the skills, capability, capacity and attitudes needed to mobilize the efforts and sustain momentum on improvement for that will ensure the transformation, and how to configure the business. The DS OE journey is mapped out in the Performance Excellence Matrix (DSPEM) model, which is a collective of 15 years of excellence engagement and deployment experience, designed into a comprehensive framework to aid in successful operational excellence transformation programs.