Governments and big organisations make decisions that shape our society
When powerful people make dumb choices it hurts us all. Here's how to fix it.
There’s a lot of ‘folk wisdom’ and unvalidated strategies, but which are widely used
This is an environment that’s hard to do robust randomised trials about
As a result, perhaps we can instead ask experts what they think works. Where do they agree and disagree?
A Delphi study is one of the best ways of doing that
As the convener of the crisis management committee, I want to know how to design exercises that actually get results, so my organisation is actually prepared for a crisis
Kahneman et al. 2019 - A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions.pdf
How to make good decisions in teams and organisations [draft]
@Alexander Saeri wanted to see "unvalidated strategies or activities that are common (e.g., we might see lots of playbooks/guides saying you should do 4Ls retrospective - but if there are no evaluations of this we should mention that)." I think one of the best ways to make this contrast is to do a Delphi study of what practitioners think works, and contrast that against the meta-review. Some things will overlap. Some will be different, and the combination of both sets of 'evidence' would reveal blind spots