The Critical Thinking and Decision-Making business application is a ground-breaking digital solution that enables team-based critical thinking and high-quality decision-making within and across teams, at all levels of the enterprise.
Built as a Microsoft Power App and accessed within Microsoft Teams on the desktop and mobile devices, the application facilitates collaboration across functions and regions and improves both the speed and quality of decisions.
The digitally enabled Critical Thinking and Decision-Making process enables cross-functional teams to consistently make rapid, high-quality decisions that are robust, transparent and defendable, especially where there may be imperfect or incomplete information or technical complexity.
The 7-Step process is simple, intuitive and oriented to drive outcomes and has been used by leaders across industries and regions since 2007.

FEATURES

Integrated: Accessed within Microsoft Teams, the core application is easily adapted to current ways of working including specific internal links or SharePoint folders and managed within your own environment.
Powerful visual boards: Each of the 7-Steps has a visual and interactive board, designed to enable critical thinking and ensure decisions are fact based, data-driven and consider a range of potential outcomes and impacts.
Skills Uplift: Teams have access to eLearning material and guides on the skills required, prior to using the process and at each of the steps within the process
Automated reports: Summary data and reports can be automatically generated and shared with key people at any stage in the process as a PDF and/or in Word format.
Decision Log: A record of the key information including participants, actions and decisions reached is maintained and date and time stamped.

TECHNOLOGY

Built as a Microsoft Power App and available within Microsoft Teams on desktop and mobile devices.
No additional Microsoft licensing costs.
Single user login through Azure Active Directory.
Data governance and security managed within own environment.
Access to the Critical Thinking and Decision-Making App can be provided to individual users, nominated groups or whole organisations through the Azure Administrator.

BENEFITS

Improves the speed and quality of decisions, particularly where teams need to collaborate across functions and regions and where some participants may be online.
Teams can step through the 7-step process using visual and interactive boards to create a ‘common operating picture’, and to capture and distil critical information, agreed actions and decisions reached.
Align a diverse group of stakeholders by building a shared view of risks and opportunities.
Generate new perspectives and insights by considering a range of potential scenarios and outcomes.
Successfully navigate through critical decisions that may have significant cascading impacts.
Rapidly uplift critical thinking skills by having a unified process to make decisions.
Provide a robust, transparent and objective approach to decision making.

Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Business App

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