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Decision points

February 10, 2010

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My friend Jerome had a post this week on finding decision points – the spots in a business process where you make a decision – that was prompted by discussions he and I had with a joint client. Jerome focuses on certain kinds of activities and the words that describe them like analyze, [...]

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Make Better Decisions

November 17, 2009

Tom Davenport published a new article recently in the Harvard Business Review titled Make Better Decisions. In it he gives some examples of bad decisions and asks why this decision-making disorder?
First, because decisions have generally been viewed as the prerogative of individuals—usually senior executives. The process employed, the information used, the logic relied on, have [...]

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Do not underestimate the need for automation in decision making

April 20, 2009

Tom Davenport wrote a nice piece last year that recently showed up on my radar – 10 Principles of the New Business Intelligence – on HarvardBusiness.org. His first principle was particularly good:
Decisions are the unit of work to which BI initiatives should be applied.
Whether you are just looking to make your reporting and dashboards more [...]

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Getting to Analytic Decisions (Lessons from the CMO Summit #1)

September 8, 2008

A colleague attended the Aberdeen CMO Summit last week and took some great notes. I am going to have a couple of posts this week based on her notes. First up, some lessons from Paul DePodesta (of the Padres). Paul focused on some of the challenges of moving from judgmental to more analytic decision [...]

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How to address decision making challenges – optimism

June 26, 2008

Optimism in one characteristic that it might see harsh to criticize. But take a look at this article on Accounting for the future. It makes a couple of interesting points. Firstly that the preparation of projections can be misleading and that an “inside view” – caused by developing a detailed plan, say – makes you [...]

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