BEST PRACTICE KEY CONCEPTS

• Design is a series of interdependent decisions.
• The activity of decision-making creates information and facilitates conversation and understanding.
• ALL decisions have five essential parts: understand the issue, develop measures, generate alternatives, evaluate alternatives, and decide what to do next.
• Addressing the basic decision-building blocks fosters learning.
• ALL decisions are based on VUCA+ information.
• Methods to help engineers make decisions include pro-con lists, pairwise comparisons, and decision matrices.
• Successful organizations know when decisions are final.