Decision Quality

Index

• Acquisition decisions
• Action. See also Commitment to action
• Action-oriented professionals
• Advocacy/approval myth
• Advocacy myth
• Agenda, decision
• Agreement(s):
  • on commitment to action
  • decision quality vs.
  • in Dialogue Decision Process
  • on need for decision
• Agreement trap megabias
• Alignment, with implementers
• Alternatives. See also Creative alternatives
  • competition between
  • decision maker's right to
  • decisions vs. strategies as
  • defined
  • in Dialogue Decision Process
  • early comparisons of
  • flying bars for
  • good
  • hybrid
  • improving existing
  • judging quality of
  • number of
  • with related decisions
  • values and
• American Oil Company
• Amoco decision analysis case study
  • applications of
  • clarifying key uncertainties in
  • decision issue in
  • efficiency and effectiveness of analysis in
  • evaluating competing reports in
  • identifying key factors in
  • uncertainties in
• Analytical complexity
• Anchoring effects
• Application projects
• Applied Imagination (Alex F. Osborn).
• Appropriate frames
  • asking questions to develop
  • decision hierarchy for creating
  • for decisions about working late
  • in Dialogue Decision Process
  • and interwoven issues in decision making
  • judging quality of
  • key components of
  • mistakes with selecting
• Appropriate frames (Continued)
  • for production capacity decisions
  • purpose of
  • as requirement
• Approval myth. See also Advocacy/approval myth
• Asking questions:
  • to clarify purpose of decision
  • to develop appropriate frame
  • in diagnosis phase
  • to judge alternatives
  • to judge commitment to action
  • to judge frame ...