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CDD for Sweet Potato packing decision
This image of a live CDD was designed for sweet potato growers to help them to optimize how bins of sweet potatoes should be allocated to orders, based on their quality, quantity, and size.
Guest Post: Connecting Decisions to Data: A Case Study, Part 2: CDD basics
In the last post, I introduced a case study for a product manager. Here, I’ll show you the basics for how to build the corresponding decision model and introduce the Causal Decision Diagram (CDD)...
The World’s Most Underutilized Sustainable Resource: Human Decisions
We make thousands of decisions every day, and modern organizations are considered “Decision Factories”. Multiply by billions of people, and it’s not hard to imagine that even a small change in how decisions are made could...
Decision Intelligence Handbook | Practical Steps for Evidence-Based Decisions in a Complex World
How can decision makers use data and technology to ensure desired outcomes? What is the best method for technology-based teams to communicate effectively with decision makers and maximize the return on their data and...
Guest Post: Not All Boxes-and-Arrows Diagrams Are the Same
Most of us are fluent in boxes and arrows. We draw process maps.We diagram workflows.We show what happens first, then next, then next. And those diagrams are useful. But when it comes to designing...
A Framework for Long-Term Thinking About Invisible Things
One of the most widespread images from my work, as reproduced in both Link: How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World, and in The Decision Intelligence Handbook, is the...
Guest Post: P-Decisions, C-Decisions, and Why the Difference Matters More Than Ever
One of the most persistent sources of confusion we see in organizations that want to improve decision making using AI and/or data science is a quiet category error: treating all decisions as if they...
Guest Post: Making Levers Work: How Behaviour Enablers Connect Decision Intelligence and Human Action (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this two-part post, we introduced the challenge of how, despite having created a well-formed CDD, the actions chosen by a decision maker may never actually be taken. Here, we present...
Guest Post: Making Levers Work: How Behavior Enablers Connect Decision Intelligence and Human Action (Part 1)
When we build decision models, there is often a particularly satisfying moment. After mapping a complex situation with a causal decision diagram (CDD), the system finally reveals itself, and the decision mapping participants can breathe a sigh...
