Group Decision Making Overview

Decision making happens four ways.

The most consequential is the least understood.

No options.

Decision-making is defined as choosing among options. But few strategic decisions come with pre-built options.

Design then choose.

Many require the goals and actions to be designed before a decision to implement them can be made.

Me then we.

Decision-making research has focused on individual decision-making (IDM) more than group decision-making (GDM).

The little cousin.

Within group decision making, how to help groups choose among options (GDM-Choice) has received most attention.

How groups design options when none exist (GDM-Design) has received minimal development.

An immature discipline.

Lacking formal GDM-Design concepts and methods to learn and adopt, groups have had to find their own approaches.

A performance blindspot.

This is problematic when GDM-Design is how most future-defining goals and actions are identified.

It has left many organizations unable to explain how a group should take an initiating signal through to the best possible response.

Errors cascade.

The inaccuracy and incompleteness in a group's proposed goals and actions become waste, rework, lost value, and missed opportunity at the operational and tactical layers.

Applied research.

SchellingPoint conducts real-time research on GDM-Design. We translate the insights into concepts, methods, and tools groups can use to efficiently, conistently, and predictably design optimal goals and actions.
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What is group decision-making, and why is it different from individual decision-making?
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I have not heard of IDM and GDM. Did you invent those terms?
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What is the difference between GDM-Choice and GDM-Design?
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Why do most leaders not have a consistent approach to group decision design?
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If group decision design matters so much, why hasn't it been addressed before?
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