Decision Making Process Integration
Catalyze helps organisations improve the way they make decisions. For some organisations the most effective solution to achieving this is for Catalyze to evaluate and rebuild their processes to which Decision Conferencing and MCDA become an integral part.
This has been particularly successful in R&D portfolio prioritisation, where our techniques are adopted by organisations to prioritise and monitor their R&D portfolio. This approach is equally applicable to other business functions such as marketing, project prioritisation and resource allocation.
This work can include a number of activities, such as:
- Evaluating existing processes, objectives and measures
- Integrating MCDA and decision conferencing into existing processes, thus providing fully auditable and transparent decision making which give best-value results
- Custom training programmes to ensure the organisation has the expertise and skills to run these processes
- Supplying decision making software and integrating this into existing business systems
The benefits
Standardised decision-makingEnsuring decision-making processes use common objectives and measures across your organisation.
Our transparent decision-making techniques go beyond traditional Cost-Benefit-Analysis, allowing non-monetary and monetary measures to be considered. These techniques are based on applied research carried out at the London School of Economics.
Decision Conferencing is ideally suited to helping groups of people deal with complex issues, for example complex decisions and strategic planning. This proven socio-technical approach ensures all key people are engaged, results in a common understanding and helps ensure strategies are adopted. Catalyze can work with you to understand when Decision Conferencing should be employed, and can help facilitate the workshops and/or train your staff so they can do so.
Our software products, Equity3 and Hiview3, are decision modelling tools based on the principles of MCDA which help the users evaluate and prioritise options. These are equally suited to Decision Conferencing and back office environments. Catalyze can work with you to integrate these software products into your systems and processes.
Catalyze will design a custom training programme to ensure you have the skills to execute your adopted decision making process. This can include courses on MCDA, Decision Conferencing and our Software, all tailored to the needs of your organisation.
We work with you and your staff to ensure you have the skills, tools and process to make transparent and auditable decisions. Catalyze can offer ad-hoc assistance and process review.
For who?
Organisations faced with regular complex decisions such as annual strategic reviews, investment portfolios, R&D budgeting and procurement who want to standardise their decision-making processes and produce fully auditable and transparent best-value results.
See how it works
See our case studies to so how we have helped others.