Every issue, the Harvard Business Review contains a “case”, a fictional situation in which a senior executive, usually a CEO, has to make some hard decision. The situation is presented in an entertaining narrative, and then the decision problem is posed in a succinct question. Then three or four expert commentators provide insights and [...]
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Decision mapping can make the right choice obvious
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Uncategorized on April 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
How *Do* Well-Run Boards Make Decisions?
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation on March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Eminent professor tells us not much about how boards actually make decisions.
Decision maps in project planning
Posted in bCisive, Decision mapping, Planning, Project management on February 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Frank Zdanowski emailed the following interesting “use case” for decision mapping/bCisive: “In my work as a project manager, I hope to use your product to build decision maps to document the thought processes of the “why” of a project during preliminary planning. This way, when [if?] we reach a crisis point in project execution where [...]
Franklin’s “moral algebra” and Decision Mapping
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Moral algebra on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Decision mapping can be seen as an elaboration of Benjamin Franklin’s famous, simple yet powerful “moral algebra” for making decisions. This short article in eWeek picks up on this idea and gives a brief overview of decision mapping.
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