decision making

Various decision making topics covered in Living Platform:

• filter, frame and constrain
  • sustainability and models of it, e.g. Natural Step
  • the ultimate goal of the organization or group
  • neutral point of view
  • TIPAESA
• choosing from options
  • multiple point of view
  • answer recommendation - how to decide how to answer
• deciding:
  • consensus decision making - how to decide when to answer
  • backcast to fixed time horizon to measure regret across scenarios
• commanding:
  • command verbs invoking command and control
• causality perception and implied tendency
  • causal loop diagram
  • correlation matrix
• committing
  • commit verbs as indicators of decisions made
  • groupthink as a primary hazard in decision
• delegating:
  • simple deference in a command hierarchy
    • neutral point of view
  • principled deference in a non-hierarchical power networks, e.g.:
    • factions in a political party
    • Issue Advocates in a Shadow Cabinet
    • New Troll point of view
• auditing and learning
  • performance audits by sponsoring or funding parties
  • forensic audits to determine causality of failures
  • learning organization
  • stupidity

See also the Risk Management and Decision Making Glossary and the GFDL corpus article on decision making.