Why connecting decisions matters as much as improving them.
A capable team can make an excellent decision with incomplete context. The difficulty appears when the consequences cross into another team’s commitments.
Make the relationship explicit
The Orchestrated Enterprise treats this as an architectural question. What state is shared? Which objectives are explicit? How do the affected actors inspect alternatives and agree on a change?
An enterprise becomes more coherent when these questions are answered in the operating system of work, rather than rediscovered during every exception. The first step is to model a bounded decision and the relationships that give it consequence.
An editorial brief based on The Orchestrated Enterprise.
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