Indies Education · Business Curriculum
Decision Making
Use evidence, explicit trade-offs, and review loops to make better calls under uncertainty.
Conjoint Analysis: Design and Interpret Trade-Offs
A rigorous, practical guide to estimate how people trade product or service attributes by designing realistic choice tasks, modelling preferences, and translating results cautiously into decisions. 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.
Pareto Analysis: Find the Vital Few Responsibly
A rigorous, practical guide to identify the vital few contributors to a defined outcome while preserving denominators, severity, uncertainty, and the long tail. 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.
Decision Trees: A Rigorous Managerial Guide
Decision trees make sequential choices, uncertain events, probabilities, and consequences visible. This chapter teaches construction, rollback calculation, sensitivity analysis, value of information, risk attitude, a worked investment case, governance, and the limits of expected value.
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.
Vroom–Yetton Decision Model: Choose Participation
A rigorous, practical guide to choose an appropriate degree of leader and team participation by diagnosing decision quality, information, commitment, conflict, time, and process constraints. 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.
TDODAR Decision Model for Time-Critical Choices
A rigorous, practical guide to use a memorable time-critical cycle to assess time, diagnose conditions, generate options, decide, assign, and review without mistaking speed for haste. 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.
A Practical Decision-Making System
A rigorous system for framing consequential choices, designing real alternatives, testing decisive assumptions, assigning authority, measuring outcomes, and learning without hindsight distortion.