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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
Situation patterns
Your job will typically fit into one of 3 patterns (roles, functions): Create: Innovate and define strategy, capabilities and solutions. Implement: Translate strategy, capabilities and solutions into reality. Operate: Manage, deliver, perform or support the stuff conceived and deployed by the other … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Patterns
Tagged career, decision network, decision-making, deployment, implementation, Job design, job roles, Kepner-Tregoe, knowledge flows, operations, problem analysis, project management, rational process, risk management, Situation Appraisal, strategy, thinking, thinking patterns
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Think smarter!
My hope for you all on Labor Day is related to the old cliche, “Work smarter, not harder“. However, I believe hard work is generally good for your soul, so let’s truncate the cliche to “Work smarter“. Although I used to make a … Continue reading
Efficient RFPs
A Request for Proposal (RFP) is a very common method of selecting suppliers for components, services or capabilities. From a human thinking perspective, an RFP is ALWAYS just a data-gathering tool for informing a decision or set of tightly-coupled decisions. … Continue reading
Gates don’t accelerate
Many companies use a product development process that includes a series of gates. At each gate they conduct a gate review to determine whether the product is ready for the next phase of development; if not they send it back … Continue reading
Transforming science into technology into products into business
Decisions create your future! Whether you think of launching a new business from a top-down perspective (starting from your Vision) or bottom-up (starting from a promising scientific behavior to exploit and build around), the value of your business is created … Continue reading
Bite-sized decisions
Even though human beings have amazing thinking powers, we really don’t like to think long and hard on anything. It takes a lot of effort to focus for longer than a few hours on a single decision, problem or issue. … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Concepts
Tagged concentration, criteria, decision, decision framing, fast decisions, focus, simplicity, thinking
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Simplified criteria weighting
The Decision Driven® Solutions Framework (DDSF) implements a simplified method for weighting criteria. It’s all done through a drag-drop canvas; after setting Threshold and Objective values for each factor, users can drag and drop them into priority (weighting) “bands”. Even … Continue reading
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Tagged criteria, criteria pattern, decision, priorities, simplicity, thinking, weighting
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Massively parallel thinking
The following is crazy talk, but sometimes it’s helpful to aim impossibly high to uncover the roadblocks to dramatic improvement. Why does it take 6, 12, 18, 24 months or more to design and deliver a new product to market? How … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Concepts, Decision Driven Innovation, Decision Driven Product Development, Decision Driven Strategy
Tagged accelerate, decision, decision blitz, decision network, massively parallel, problem domain, process improvement, product development, speed, thinking, thinking breakdown structure, time to market, value-added
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Thinking tools for thinking people
The human race is a race of tool-builders. Archeologists, anthropologists and paleontologists describe ancient populations in terms of their technologies; the tools that they shaped to give them some advantage over their environment. The Decision Driven® Solutions Framework (DDSF) is … Continue reading
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