MCKINSEY
Decision quality × speed
57% of respondents said their organisations consistently made high-quality decisions. 48% said decisions were made quickly. Only 37% achieved both.
Source: Decision making in the age of urgency (2019)
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57% of respondents said their organisations consistently made high-quality decisions. 48% said decisions were made quickly. Only 37% achieved both.
Good decisions require more than analytics. Deloitte emphasises sensing, framing, evidence, rigor, integrity and decision-maker support.
Organisations can diagnose decision quality, speed and effort, then use targeted metrics to identify bottlenecks rather than relying on intuition alone.
Important: These findings are attributed to their respective sources. They illustrate the management problem the architecture addresses; they are not performance guarantees for any specific decision.
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