techniques for improving decision making.
1. Devil's advocacy
- A member of a decision making team identifies all the considerations that might make a proposal unacceptable.
- Possible perils of recommended courses of action are brought into light
2. Dialectic inquiry
- Feneration of a plan and a couter plan that reflect plausible but conflicting courses of action.
- Promotes strategic thinking
3. Outside view
- Identification of past successful or failed strategic intiatives to determine if they will work for the current project