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A foundation for great thinking
Last week I was asked what I do for a living. Rather than give a long explanation concerning Decision Management and Systems Engineering consulting, I went with the short version, “I teach people how to think” and followed it tongue-in-cheek … Continue reading
Transform your thinking
Really important changes start in our minds. If you are attempting to transform your business, create disruptive innovations or make a significant difference in some grand challenge, you will most likely be limited by your fundamental thinking skills. That’s not … Continue reading
Big Ideas: Decision Management
Because Decision Management (DM) is not widely recognized as a first-tier management or technical process, I often have to restate the Big Ideas on which DM is based. For each idea (assertion of a truth that I’ve found useful), I’ve … Continue reading
Balancing factors for situation success
I’ve been blessed in life with the opportunity to tackle a diverse set of me-stretching challenges. Perhaps I sought these out by saying “Yes, I can do that!” a bit hastily, but I’ve never considered a perceived-by-others failure to be … Continue reading
Ultimately Lean Innovation
Think for a second about what the ultimately lean innovation process might look like: Attack the right problem: Use a proven criteria pattern to evaluate your portfolio of problems to solve and select the problems that will yield the greatest … Continue reading
Value is created one decision at a time
I have been thinking a lot recently about how value is created for any business or enterprise. These thoughts were triggered as I was updating the decision patterns available in the Decision Driven® Solutions Framework (DDSF) and also discussing our … Continue reading
All faults are decision faults
Continuous process improvement methods use problem analysis (root cause analysis) to identify and confirm the cause-effect relationships that lead to defects. You cannot take effective corrective action until you understand the root cause of a process defect. Your current process or situation … Continue reading
All requirements are derived requirements
Every requirement that you will ever face can be traced to an upstream decision; all requirements are derived requirements. I used to offer students in my Decision Driven® Design workshops a large cash prize if they could name a requirement that … Continue reading
True and useful
Yesterday I spent most of the day populating the product development (solution design, systems engineering) decisions that are a big part of the Decision Driven® Solutions decision pattern. I added a branch of decisions that form the bridge between science … Continue reading
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Decisions consume requirements
Yesterday I explored the fact that decisions create requirements. That’s half of the story – decisions also consume requirements. A decision is a wonderful thinking tool that takes in multiple requirements (objectives, goals, constraints, …) and balances them against one … Continue reading
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