DECISION GUIDES
Structure the Decision before you score it.
A weak Decision frame can produce a sophisticated analysis of the wrong question. Argumont's Decision Guides help identify what deserves attention before the competing options are put under pressure.
Start with the real objective.
Ask what the Decision is actually trying to achieve.
A product selection, staffing choice, relocation, investment, vendor decision, or manufacturing decision can look very different when the objective changes.
Separate options from context.
A real option is something the user could actually choose.
Context, preferences, uncertainty, and personal facts should not become accidental contestants.
Identify material criteria.
Criteria should reflect what could actually make one option better or worse for this specific Decision.
Do not apply one generic business scorecard to every problem.
Identify what must be researched.
Some facts are discoverable.
Some facts are private.
Some facts are inherently uncertain.
The guide should make those categories visible before pretending the Decision is fully known.
A guide is not a Verdict.
A Decision Guide helps structure the question.
Once the real options are known, Argumont can put them through the analytical process.
Use How It Works for the full method, Learn for the standing library, Questions for the decision you are actually asking, and Research when a claim still needs evidence.
Start from a guide
How It Works
Argumont turns an important Decision into a Decision Room. Each Participant has a different job. Material arguments can be challenged, researched, defended, rev...
Learn
Practical guides to asking a clear question, following the discussion, checking the evidence, and taking your decision record forward.
Questions
A useful question is the beginning of a Decision, not the end of one.
Decision Library
Each page in this library takes one kind of business choice and sets out what usually settles it: the evidence that matters, the mistake people tend to make, an...
Research
Research exists to test the material claims capable of changing the Decision.
Decision Examples
A Decision Example is a room Argumont ran in public on a named choice, using only published facts, with the reasoning shown turn by turn. Each one is a demonstr...
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