What is Decision Maker?



A tool for Quantitative Decision Making
It is important that decision making is free from bias and emotion. The decision should be the same no matter who collects the data. Decision Maker provides the quantitative decisions that you need
A tool for Quantitative Decision Making
A Method to Audit your Decisions
A Method to Audit your Decisions
Why was a decision made. Accountability is always important in any business. Decision Maker keeps a record of all decisions so if there is ever any questions about why a decision was reached you can easily look it up
A Common Framework for all Decisions
Using a standardised framework allows all of your organisations decisions to be made the same way by everyone. You can rest assured that when a decision is made it will clear and unbiased
A Common Framework for all Decisions
A Central Location for all Decisions
A Central Location for all Decisions
When decisions are recorded in spreadsheets and documents it can sometimes be hard to find a previously made decision. By using Decision Maker you can easily search for past and current decision from one location
A Fair Way of Evaluating Criteria
Not all criteria are as important (have as higher priority) as others. Decision Maker uses the MoSCoW methodology that allows you to specify the importance/priority of each criteria. This allows the answers to important criteria to have more of an impact on the outcome than unimportant criteria
A Fair Way of Evaluating Criteria

How can Decision Maker help you?

Decision Maker has many features that help you with making decisions. Below are six important reasons for using this tool.
Accountability

Does someone want to know the reason for your decision? Now you can review previous decisions and see why you decided on a particular outcome

Organised

Decisions are organised into projects and projects are organised into workspaces. This allows you to organise the decisions into the structure that suits you best

Permissions

Permissions decide who can create, edit and score decisions, projects and workspaces

Search

Lost a decision? You can search for it within a project or workspace

Download

Decision Maker allows you to download a decision so that you can store it at a different location

Share

Does someone else need to know details of a decision? Decision Maker can generate a link to view a decision

When could Decision Maker be used?

In life, decisions are made all of the time. If you want some or all of those decisions to be fact-based and unbiased then use Decision Maker. Below are some examples where Decision Maker can be used but the possibilities are limitless.

Work

Options Analysis / RFP - Choosing a booking/scheduling system

You need an online booking/scheduling system to replace the current phone and spreadsheet-based system. Find out what you need from a system and enter it as criteria. Weight those criteria so that the most important (highest priority) ones have the highest importance/priority.


Score the criteria for each option and your decision has been made. If someone asks you why you chose that system then just show them the decision.



Manager - Hiring Employees

Trying to decide between the shortlisted applicants for a new job? Enter the criteria you are looking for where the importance/priority dictates if you must have, should have, could have or won't have a criteria. Input a criteria score for each applicant. Decision Maker has just empowered you to pick the best applicant.


New criteria can be added at any time during the hiring process, even after it is fully scored. Once the score for the criteria is added the overall outcome is updated with the new result.



Software Development

Should I use ReactJs or AngularJs for the new Project? Determine the key criteria, set the importance/priority of each criteria and set the certainty that ReactJs and AngularJs meets that criteria. You now have your choice.



Purchasing office equipment

Accounting has asked you to purchase a new printer for them. You get them to create a decision with all the criteria (features) that they want and state the importance/priority for each (must have, should have...). The criteria of what they are wanting is recorded in a clear way on the decision.


You find two printers that meet those needs, the Brother HL1210W or HP M776 printer? You score each criteria for the two printers. You can now go back to Accounting with details of the two printers and present it to them along with the decision. Accounting doesn't need to go through tons of features because they have the decision all filled out for them.




Personal

New Device Purchase

Looking at getting a new phone? Work out what features you are looking for in a phone and enter them as criteria. Adjust the importance/priority of each criteria to suit your desires. Score the criteria for phone and that's it, you now know which one to get



Which university should my daughter go to

Decide what you are wanting in a university and enter it as criteria. Score the criteria against each university you are looking at. You have your decision!