Supporting “good” decisions

Good decision-making is a topic of discussion which ranks as a perennial favorite – across board and dinner tables.

Managers, CEOs and Boards frequently reflect “did we get that right”?

This begs the question of what does “right” mean?

What do “good” decisions look like?

The key to good decisions is good decision-making processes.

Ref: University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Oct 18, 2018

Supporting Consistency, Quality Assurance and Values Alignment across your organization.

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Suggested five step process to develop your decision criteria.

  1. Reflect on how you make good decisions
  2. Group “like with like”, ”similar with similar” into clusters
  3. Summarize each cluster as a decision making criterion
  4. Filter out those criteria considered inappropriate
  5. Rank criteria to prioritise “weight” to be given to each criterion
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