Business and technology managers recognize the following as pervasive, costly, and unresolved organizational problems:

• Decisions that were declared final are later revisited.
• Team members don’t buy into decisions.
• Team decisions are made by edict or by the loudest voice.
• Team members don’t utilize all of their expertise.
• There is little confidence in decisions based on uncertain information.
• Decisions are not justified, recorded, or reused. 

These problems are symptomatic of poor decision management.  They are at the heart of many managers’ frustrations when trying to make the best decision based on team knowledge.  These symptoms manifest themselves regardless of problem type:

• which clients do we pursue? (Sales portfolio decisions)
• Which business model should we follow? (Forecasting decisions)
• Which functionality should we chose? (Product development decisions)
• Which vendor should we select? (Procurement decisions)
• Which employee should we hire? (Personnel decisions)

All of these problems types are characterized by multiple potential solutions. The consequence of choosing a poor solution can be expensive and time consuming.  The information on which a decision must be based is usually distributed among many people and systems. Additionally, this information may be uncertain –not well refined, changing, and subject to interpretation and personal opinion. Uncertainty greatly affects which solution should be chosen, and what additional work should be done. The goal of decision management is to make the ?best possible? decision ? the least risky satisfactory decision based on the current uncertain information and to identify what to do next to insure that a solution is chosen that has an acceptable level of risk. Compelevent Solutions will help you take competitive advantage of the emerging methods for managing decision-making.  We will help you attain maximum confidence in your decisions, despite the uncertainties that exist in every business and product development issue.  We will work with you to quantify the risks involved in making decisions. The methods to be presented are currently in use in companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Boeing.  These companies are showing reduced product development time, increased speed to market and increased confidence that they have made the best possible decisions.