Q: Can argument mapping be used in strategic planning? A: Of course! – because strategic planning involves complex arguments, and argument mapping can help whenever you have to deal with complex arguments. However to move beyond that sort of trite proclamation, it is useful to have concrete examples of how argument mapping can enhance a [...]
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Argument mapping in strategic planning
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Austhink, bCisive, Mapping, Planning, Strategy on July 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Layered visual argument
Posted in Argument, Argumentation, Deliberation, Reasoning, Visual Deliberation on April 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A brilliant cartoon presents four arguments visually, and its main argument implicitly.
Arguing is not pointless…
Posted in Argument, Argumentation, Deliberation on February 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Peter Bregmen in Harvard Business Review argues that arguing is pointless. Arguing is of course not pointless, but must be done tactfully – as explained by Benjamin Franklin.
Elements of a major business decision
Posted in Argument, Boards, Business, Decision Making, Deliberation, Evidence-based decision on December 9, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The crime of murder has a set of elements – key things which must be established. Similarly, there are elements for major business decisions.
Bitten by assumptions
Posted in Argument, Assumptions, Business, Decision Making on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Two recent articles in the business press underscore the importance of unearthing and challenging the assumptions which are shoring up your inferences. They also provide fascinating insights more generally into organisational decision, a topic which always becomes more interesting when things go badly wrong. The first, Potash: The deal that didn’t have to die appeared in [...]
The Bushfire Royal Commission should explain its reasoning better
Posted in Argument, Communication, Legal Argumentation, Reasoning on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One lesson of the terrible Black Saturday fires in Victoria was that lines of communication can break down, with tragic consequences. Information which may have been available to some did not reach and so could not inform the decisions of those who had to act. The recently-released interim report of the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission [...]
Why are legal arguments so hard to follow?
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Language, Legal Argumentation, Rationale, Reasoning on August 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Judges use written judgements to convey the complex set of arguments supporting their decision. However it is difficult to extract the arguments from those written judgements, at the level of clarity and rigour demanded by good-quality argument mapping. This difficulty is due in large part to various aspects of traditional legal prose.
Deliberative decisions
Posted in Argument, Decision Making, Deliberation on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Much of my work at the moment revolves around the notion of deliberative decision making. In other words, this kind of thing: The meeting in the prime minister’s Sydney office was to consider raising the stakes: should the government reverse its previous position and seek to end the interminable blame shifting by taking over [...]
Yes, the war was legal – argument map
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Legal Argumentation, Teaching on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Greg Hunt’s brave case that the Iraq war was in fact legal presented in an argument map.
The three kinds of deliberative judgement
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Austhink, Decision Making, Rationale on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[originally posted to BlogCisive] To a first approximation, all deliberative judgements (i.e., those that turn on to-some-degree careful consideration of the relevant arguments) can be usefully sorted into three kinds. These are the three Ds of judgement. 1. Decision Decision is a matter of choosing from among options, particularly where those options are possible actions. [...]
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