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Decision Audit
Clarity before you decide. I don't analyze options; I analyze how a decision comes about and how it is built. So you know what really needs to be decided.
Schedule an initial conversationWhat it’s for
For decisions where the stakes, uncertainty, or political dynamics are high: investments, reorganizations, exits, realignments, governance issues. For decisions after which you don’t want to say: I should have known that beforehand.
Most failed decisions don’t result from wrong options, but from poorly built decision architectures.
What I examine
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The real question
What really needs to be decided, as opposed to the issues put forward as a pretext.
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Assumptions and blind spots
Which assumptions and narratives carry the decision, and which of them are solid.
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Decision space
Which options are real, and which have already been ruled out without anyone saying so.
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Power, responsibility, consequences
Who decides, who bears the consequences, and where the two diverge.
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Time and reversibility
What can be corrected later, what locks you in, and which decisions get made along the way without anyone noticing.
How I go about it
A Decision Audit is deliberately focused and time-bound.
- Clarify the context: What is it really about? Who is affected? What is at stake?
- Analyze the architecture: the decision question, assumptions, avoidance patterns, power and responsibility, temporal couplings.
- Mirror: I name the central tensions clearly and without sugarcoating, separating factual logic, the relationship level, and power logic.
- Condense: What needs to be decided first, what can wait, what can’t be decided yet?
Result
A decision map with prioritized points to clarify. You know what you’re deciding and what else you’re deciding along with it. You make the decision yourself; I don’t give a recommendation on which option to choose. In the Decision Lab, we then work through the decision together.
What the Decision Audit examines and what it doesn’t
The Decision Audit looks at how decisions are made. The other audits examine whether your organization holds up, your product has impact, or your leadership team works well together.
Structure, processes, governance
Organization Audit
“Can our organization carry what’s coming?”
Leadership system
Leadership Audit
“Are we leading as a leadership team the way the situation demands?”
Decision Architecture
The path in three stages
Before that: the initial conversation. Clarity on whether to continue, and with what.
- Stage 1 · ClarifyDecision AuditWhat really needs to be decidedYou are here
- Stage 2 · DecideDecision LabA sound decision, played through before it's made
- Stage 3 · Follow throughDecision guidanceFollow-up decisions that fit together
