Finding Oil, People, and Other Treasures: The Anatomy of Distributed Business Decisions

Dectech has been working on many superficially unrelated problems – lending, recruiting, oil exploration, site research – and noted what is more than a family resemblance. They are all filtering processes with multiple decision stages distributed across organisations. Multi-stage decision processes are pervasive in business and making the right decisions is hard. This brief describes the key characteristics of such processes and what actions managers can take to improve them.

Finding Oil, People, and Other Treasures: The Anatomy of Distributed Business Decisions