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Better Decision Making

Every organisation has processes through which judgments of various kinds are made. Sometimes these processes are severely deficient.  More typically, there is scope for improved efficiency and quality of output. Drawing on our expertise in cognitive science, and our experience working with many different organisations, we are able to provide objective, insightful reviews of cognitive processes and propose enhancements.

Decision Process Review

Decision Facilitation 

Risks & Decision

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How well are key decisions made in your organisation?  We can conduct a review or "cognitive audit" of your decision making processes, helping you understand how well they are working and how they might be improved.  We have conducted such audits for organisations as diverse as military and intelligence organisations, investment firms, and football teams. 
Making important decisions can be difficult due to complexity, uncertainty, and disagreement among participants. We can help your organisation make difficult deliberative decisions (i.e. decisions involving weighing up options in the light of arguments pro and con) using our innovative decision mapping methods. 

Read more about decision mapping.  
We can help your organisation to better identify, evaluate and communicate complex sets of risks associated with major decisions.  A special focus is how risks are communicated to high-level decision groups such as company boards.
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Training in Decision Making 

Decision Analysis

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We pioneered decision mapping, the use of simple diagrams for making clear the essential structure of a complex decision. Using decision mapping we provide training in the fundamentals of rigorous and reasonable decision making.  This training is designed for mid-level staff in large organisations, but can be adapted to many other contexts.    
We can provide technical decision analysis services, including
  • Decision trees
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • Real options 
  • Optimization
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