Decision Strategy: Why are we making the decision?

As decision complexity increases, so does the need for a disciplined approach to decision making. Without a disciplined approach, the risk of failure increases. Big Sky helps its clients structure the decision making process by defining the business context for the decision. This process begins with a discussion and ranking of strategic goals and objectives. Business leaders specify the weighted value of each attribute, which ultimately drive the decision results by rating decision alignment to the desired outcome.

Key Activities:
• Decision analysis
• SWOT facilitation
• Value chain analysis
• Organization analysis
• Business case analysis
• Budgetary analysis
• Financial analysis

Decision Tools and Techniques: How will we make the decision?

Once our clients are focused on the right strategic context, goals, and measures of success for a decision, we help determine the best combination of tools and techniques to apply. We assess the decision’s requirements for qualitative and qualitative data, organizational buy-in, and which tools and techniques are most likely to achieve the desired level of precision, speed, and efficacy. In addition, we help our clients understand what high level measures drive definitions of success or failure for a decision.

Key Activities:
• Project prioritization
• Decision analysis
    - Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
    - Analytic Network Process (ANP)
• Facilitation of consensus-driven decision making

Implementing the Decision: What have we accomplished?

Finally, Big Sky helps our clients achieve long-lasting results by assisting them in the implementation of their decision strategy and its associated tools and techniques. Specifically, we help clients understand what technology and process enhancements are required to make decisions better and faster. That means designing an information architecture around decision-making and creating decision processes that are lean, repeatable, and nearly error-free.

• Define decision systems and processes
• Business process reengineering
• Lean
• Six sigma
• Supply chain optimization 
• Governance
• Identity Management solutions