Decision-Making Frameworks

Proven frameworks to help your team make better, faster decisions. Each guide includes steps, real-world examples, and trade-offs.

Assign clear roles (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) to every stakeholder in a decision.

A streamlined decision framework that designates a Driver, Approver, Contributors, and Informed parties.

Bain & Company's framework with five roles: Recommend, Agree, Perform, Input, and Decide.

Prioritize decisions by plotting them on a 2x2 grid of urgency versus importance.

Edward de Bono's method for exploring decisions from six distinct perspectives: facts, emotions, caution, optimism, creativity, and process.

A fast decision cycle (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) designed for rapidly changing environments.

A sense-making framework that categorizes problems as Simple, Complicated, Complex, or Chaotic, each requiring a different decision approach.

Decisions pass when no one has a principled objection, not when everyone enthusiastically agrees.

Score each option against weighted criteria to find the objectively best choice.

Imagine the decision has already failed, then work backward to identify what went wrong.

Use these frameworks in Resolve

Resolve turns decision frameworks into structured, documented workflows with AI briefs, stakeholder tracking, and audit trails.