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"We wanted to start again with a clean sheet. That's how this all started. We brought together what we learnt from developing OPQ [the Occupational Personality Questionnaire] 25 years ago, and put a team together with a blank canvas to create something innovative, something that pushed the boundaries," says Professor Peter Saville, describing how his latest product in psychometric testing came about.

Professor Saville is probably best known in the HR world as the "Saville" in "Saville and Holdsworth", the company that he and Roger Holdsworth set up 25 years ago, but which they both left in December 2002.

Now the international chair of Saville Consulting, Professor Saville goes on to recall that: "We had a hunch - call it intuition - that we could improve on the existing measures and dimensions, and then we discovered the technology to make it work."

What has emerged, some two years later, from the Saville-led laboratory is a tool that is, potentially, set to become as much of a landmark in psychometrics as its OPQ predecessor. A complex, insightful and intelligent tool, The Saville Consulting Wave Professional Styles questionnaire shares many characteristics with that of its namesake.