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Who Has the D? Unclog Decision-Making Bottlenecks
| Guest post by: David Carter |
Article Overview: Making good decisions and making them quickly is a differentiator of high-performing companies. And the key to outperforming competitors is the quality, speed, and execution of your decisions. Yet in many companies, decisions routinely stall. One culprit? Ambiguity for who is accountable for which decisions. Here is a tool to help clarify your strategic decisions: Think RAPID.
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Who Has the D? Unclog Decision-Making Bottlenecks
Making good decisions and making them quickly is a differentiator of high-performing companies. And the key to outperforming competitors is the quality, speed, and execution of your decisions. Yet in many companies, decisions routinely stall. One culprit? Ambiguity for who is accountable for which decisions. Here is a tool to help clarify your strategic decisions: Think RAPID.
Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko introduced RAPID in their Harvard Business Review article "Who Has The D." Every success, every failure, every opportunity seized or missed stems from a decision.
And the key concept isClarity. Assign clear roles for strategic decisions such as markets to enter, how to allocate capital, or how to drive product innovation.
And then, think RAPID.
Recommend. Who should recommend a course of action on a key decision? Assign clear roles for the high impact decisions that your company must make.
Agree. Who must agree to a recommendation before it will move forward?
Perform. Who will perform the actions needed to implement the decision?
Input. Whose input is needed to determine the proposal's feasibility?
Decide. Who brings the decision to closure and commits your company to implement it?
When you clarify decision roles, you make the right choices--swiftly and effectively. And the result? Your success is the sum total of all the decisions you make.
Contact David Paul Carter to learn more about RAPID decision making.
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About the Author: David Carter RSS for David's articles - Visit David's website We use a forward-looking approach to growth strategies for today’s environment, business model design, and succession planning. Our approach is free ranging; our mission is completely client focused and not bound to any one program, philosophy or set of ideas. Founder/President David Paul Carter draws on 30+ years of success as an experienced business executive, entrepreneur, strategist, advisor, and dedicated community leader. His background incorporates business consulting (for the past 10 years), entrepreneurial business ownership (2 previous companies), corporate management (senior executive positions within the Thomson Corporation, Wolters Kluwer, and Ziff-Davis Publishing companies) and international business experience (US, Europe and Australasia). He brings a unique blend of clarity, insight, and different thinking to his clients. Contact David at (215) 732-2230, or email dcarter@davidpaulcarter.com, or visit www.davidpaulcarter.com or text CARTERREPORT 22828 to subscribe. Click here to visit David's website   16 Rules for Business and Life Success Who Has the D Unclog DecisionMaking Bottlenecks Andre Agassi Had the Wrong Big Goal Your One Sustainable Competitive Advantage You Take Golf Lessons So Why Not Strategy Lessons |
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