Decision Risk · Assessment

Is your next decision already at risk?

Five questions. Two minutes. A clear answer. Answer each question honestly - then see your risk rating and what to do with it.

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Question 1 of 5

The people recommending this decision also benefit directly from it being approved.

The vendor relationship, internal position, or career trajectory of the person making the recommendation is tied to the outcome.

Question 2 of 5

Your leadership team cannot clearly agree what success looks like in 12 months.

If you wrote down the measurable outcomes today, not all members of the SLT would sign it without amendment.

Question 3 of 5

This programme has already slipped once - and the explanation was workload, not root cause.

No one has specifically identified which decision, dependency, or assumption caused the first delay.

Question 4 of 5

The board receives status updates from the programme team, not independent risk assessments.

There is no one reporting to the board on this programme who has no stake in it looking successful.

Question 5 of 5

The cost of stopping hasn't been formally calculated and compared to the cost of continuing.

The decision to continue is driven by sunk cost reasoning rather than a current comparison of options.

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