DecisionMaking

Decision-Making

While all decisions are a guess about the future, as complexity builds upon complexity decision-makers must increasingly rely on their intuition and judgment. The papers below begin by looking at decision-making in a complex environment. To provide balance and hopefully insights, we then look at decision-making from the inside-out, the domain of the mind/brain.

The Decision-Making Process for Complex Situations in a Complex Environment. Specific focus on a complex adaptive mess in terms of laying the groundwork for decision-making, understand and exploring complex situations, discussing human additive factors, preparing for the decision process and mechanisms for influencing complex situations. (PDF, 13 pages)

Decision Journey graphic. (PowerPoint, 1 slide)

Leaders, Decisions, and the Neuro-Knowledge System. Every decision-maker has a self-organizing, hierarchical set of theories (and consistent relationships among those theories) that guide their decision-making process. The workings of our mind/brain provide a model for decision-making in a complex situation. (PDF, 15 pages)

Characterization of Decision Needs (PowerPoint, 1 slide). See the Paper "KNOWLEDGE: Surface, Shallow and Deep" in the Knowledge area of the Publications section.