Indies Education · Business Curriculum
Decision Making
Use evidence, explicit trade-offs, and review loops to make better calls under uncertainty.
Break-Even Analysis: Formula, Limits and Scenarios
A rigorous, practical guide to calculate and stress-test the volume, revenue, utilization, or time required for incremental contribution to cover relevant fixed commitments. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
NPV and IRR: A Rigorous Investment Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to evaluate investments with incremental cash flows, defensible discount rates, explicit scenarios, and a clear understanding of when NPV and IRR disagree. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into.
Cash Flow Forecasting: Build a Reliable Model
A rigorous, practical guide to forecast the timing and uncertainty of receipts and payments so leaders can protect liquidity, plan financing, and act before cash constraints become crises. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn.
Avoid Psychological Bias in Business Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to design decision processes that reduce predictable cognitive error through independent evidence, reference classes, alternatives, calibration, dissent, and review. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Prepare Yourself to Make Better Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to prepare attention, objectives, evidence, emotional state, conflicts, uncertainty, and time so consequential choices are not made from avoidable cognitive depletion or urgency theatre. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn.
Equip Your Team to Make Better Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to build team decision capability through clear rights, shared context, information access, methods, psychological safety, escalation, resources, and feedback. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
The Ladder of Inference: Test Your Reasoning
A rigorous, practical guide to slow the movement from selected data to meaning, assumptions, conclusions, beliefs, and action so teams can inspect reasoning and learn from disagreement. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis.
QSPM: A Rigorous Strategic Planning Guide
The Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix compares strategic alternatives against weighted internal and external factors. This chapter explains factor selection, weights, attractiveness scores, total scores, sensitivity analysis, a worked portfolio case, governance, and QSPM’s important limits.
Risk Analysis and Risk Management Guide
Risk analysis and risk management connect uncertainty to objectives and action. This chapter explains risk framing, scenario analysis, exposure, controls, treatment choices, residual risk, aggregation, monitoring, a worked supply-chain case, and safeguards against ritual compliance.
Understand the Complete Decision Cycle
A rigorous, practical guide to understand decision making as a repeatable cycle of framing, evidence, alternatives, choice, execution, feedback, and revision. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
How to Make Better Business Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to make defensible choices by framing the problem, clarifying objectives, generating alternatives, evaluating uncertainty and trade-offs, and committing to action. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
How Good Is Your Decision-Making Process?
A rigorous, practical guide to audit decision quality through process evidence, calibration, fairness, implementation, and learning instead of celebrating lucky outcomes. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.