An overview of different decisions frameworks
Evaluate Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
Assess competitive dynamics and market forces.
Break down complex problems to fundamental truths.
Human-centered iterative problem-solving approach.
Analyze Certainties, Suppositions, and Doubts.
Start with Why - Purpose, How, and What framework.
Understand decision context: simple, complicated, complex, or chaotic.
Quantitatively compare options against weighted criteria.
Prioritization frameworks: Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort / Impact, Confidence, Ease.
Visualize potential outcomes, costs, and consequences of choices.
Prioritize initiatives based on potential impact versus required effort.
Observe, Orient, Decide, Act—a rapid decision-making cycle.
Setting, People, Alternatives, Decide, Explain decision-making process.
Iterative management method for continuous process improvement.
Define roles: Recommend, Agree, Perform, Input, Decide.
Determine the optimum degree of subordinate participation in decision-making.
Task, Action, Result—used for behavioral interviewing and decision review.
Process for making better choices: Widen options, Reality-test assumptions, Attain distance, Prepare to be wrong.
Facilitation technique for structuring brainstorming and decision-making.
Time, Diagnose, Options, Decide, Assign, Review—for high-stakes, time-critical situations.
Define roles: Driver, Approver, Contributor, Informed.
Trace how beliefs and assumptions lead to actions.
Evaluate complex options against multiple, sometimes conflicting, criteria.
How people make decisions in high-pressure, time-constrained situations.
Formal method for calculating the utility of multi-dimensional choices.
Structured method for generating ideas and prioritizing them.
Rapid-fire workshop for problem-solving and decision-making.
80/20 Rule—identifying the vital few contributors to a problem.
Systematically identify, evaluate, and mitigate potential product or process failures.
Identify overlooked assumptions or external factors that could impact a decision.
Valuation method using metrics from similar publicly traded companies.
Systematically evaluate the total costs and benefits of a project or decision.
Applying BA practices within an Agile development environment.
Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results—a positive, future-focused analysis.
Analyze Sociocultural, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, and Ethical factors.
Analyze Political, Economic, Sociocultural, Technological, Environmental, and Legal factors.
Demographics, Economy, Sociocultural, Technology, Ecology, Politics—a macro-environmental scan.
Prioritization method by comparing each item in a list with every other item.
Decision principle: 'Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please'.
Decision principle: The simplest explanation is usually the best one.
Cognitive bias: Sweeping inconvenient data under the rug to maintain the simplest hypothesis.
Cognitive bias: Judging a decision based on the final outcome, rather than decision quality.
Conflict of interest when an agent acts on behalf of a principal.
Map stakeholders by Power and Interest to determine strategy.
Simple binary decision point for project continuation.
Framework for strategic growth—from core to white spaces.
Hoshin Kanri tool for deploying strategy across an organization.
Portfolio planning based on market growth and market share.
Framework for growth: Market Penetration, Development, Diversification.
Develop and test strategies against multiple plausible futures.
General process of defining strategy and allocating resources.
Measure performance from Financial, Customer, Process, and Learning perspectives.
Assess internal capabilities against external market opportunities.
Framework for building a comprehensive corporate strategy.
Prioritize risks by plotting probability against impact severity.
Evaluate an organization's preparedness for scaling operations.
General guidance on creating a viable business strategy.
Steps and procedures for defining enterprise-wide strategy.
Competing in existing markets vs. creating uncontested spaces.
Analyze effectiveness via seven interdependent factors like Style and Staff.
Aligning corporate, business unit, and functional strategies.
Core questions in strategic decision-making.
Facets of strategy: Arenas, Differentiators, Staging, Economic Logic.
Evaluate resources for Value, Rarity, and Imitability.
Developing and testing strategic options through hypotheses.
Cascading decisions and strategy from leadership to teams.
Strategy focused on collaborating with external partners.
Performance measurement focusing on key CEO responsibilities.
Tool for linking strategy to operating model design.
Identify unique skills providing competitive advantage.
Organizing and prioritizing strategic projects.
Prioritize tasks by categorizing them based on Urgency and Importance.
Dainta can leverage all these frameworks as well as adapt new frameworks to meet your needs.