The crime of murder has a set of elements – key things which must be established. Similarly, there are elements for major business decisions.
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Elements of a major business decision
Posted in Argument, Boards, Business, Decision Making, Deliberation, Evidence-based decision on December 9, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Decisions in Organisations – Four Kinds
Posted in Decision Making, Deliberation on November 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Decisions come in many different kinds. When thinking about decisions in large organisations, it is useful to distinguish the Intuitive, the Technical, the Deliberative, and the Bureaucratic.
What is visual deliberation?
Posted in Argument Mapping, Deliberation, IBIS, Mapping, Visual Deliberation on September 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Recently I’ve started to use “visual deliberation” as a catch-all term for the various mapping techniques and activities we use in our activities at Austhink (argument mapping, IBIS-based issue mapping, etc.). Happily, the more I use it, the more apt it seems. What we’re typically doing is helping people to deliberate more effectively, and [...]
How to think about a job offer
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation, Moral algebra on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In his recent post “To accept or to decline: mapping life’s little dilemmas using IBIS“, Kailash Awati provides a nice case study of using mapping to make a significant personal decision. Interestingly, the “little dilemma” in the case study is just the same kind of issue that was facing Joseph Priestley when he wrote to Benjamin Franklin [...]
Draft Introduction to Decision Mapping Book
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Decision Mapping Book, Deliberation, Moral algebra on October 22, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’m currently working on a book on decision mapping (and more generally, deliberative decision making), tentatively called Draw the Right Conclusion!. I’ll be periodically releasing draft chapters. First cab off the rank is the Introduction. Comments and suggestions most welcome. Here are the opening paragraphs: In late 1772 Joseph Priestley was wrestling with a [...]
What Donna Should Do…
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation on October 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Julie Garland Mclellan has posted another of her Director’s Dilemmas. This time I had the interesting task of coming up with one of the three “answers” or commentaries, and used decision mapping to derive my recommendations. Here is the map: Click on the image or here to view the zoomable pdf file. Transcribing the [...]
Board deliberations – white paper summary available
Posted in Boards, Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now available: Enhancing Board Decisions with Decision Mapping (pdf) Boards can improve their effectiveness by refining their decision-making processes. To this end we recommend adoption of decision mapping to assist individual Directors to appreciate the logical structure of Board decisions, thereby enabling them to participate more effectively in Boardroom debates. Specifically, Management create decision maps [...]
What is decision mapping?
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Deliberation on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A brief overview of decision mapping, in a question-and-answer format
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 [...]
Chaotic deliberation
Posted in Decision mapping, Deliberation on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Comic writer Danny Katz illustrates the kind of chaos that so often goes on in our minds as we try to make decisions: Dizzy with salt-hypertension, I froze before this great plastic-bottled Red Sea, overwhelmed by the choices, staging a whole National Water Commission in my head: Do I want Natural Water? Will it be [...]
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