I just returned from facilitating a one day project review for a government agency. The project was a three year effort by a major aerospace contractor, it cost over $13M and was designed to develop a new technology. I knew nothing about the technology...

Organizations use many different strategies to make decisions. The following is a list of strategies seen in practice. They all lead to decisions, but they all run the risk of not making good use of the available people and information. Have you ever...

Bad decisions don’t stick – the issue get revisited again and again, people who agreed with the decision do something else, and resources get wasted on a bad idea. Here are four surefire ways to make a bad decision. 1. Make decisions too soon...

I just spent a day judging a contest of pre-teens making design decisions. I learned a lot about decision-making. My day was in support of the US First Lego League (FLL) local competition. The theme this year’s event was “Climate Connections...

I was trained as a mechanical engineer. I know how to model systems, take data and develop an understanding for physical things. Most (nearly all) technical university courses are about how to analyze things. In my case these were physical things,...