DQ for Management: assess the decision.

Who is DQ for Management for?

The workshop is designed for managers, executives, sponsors, and committee members who review or challenge important recommendations. It develops a shared language for asking whether the evidence supports a decision, beyond the confidence or presentation style of the person proposing it.

Participants can focus on the quality of a decision package without first building that package themselves. This makes the workshop complementary to DQ for Teams, where participants develop the underlying decision evidence.

What happens during the workshop?

1. Establish the decision context. Understand the choice, its boundaries, and what the reviewers are being asked to consider.
2. Read the evidence. Examine a defined package covering the frame, alternatives, information, values, reasoning, and commitment.
3. Assess independently. Record judgments against the assessment criteria before the facilitated group discussion.
4. Examine the results. Explore the six-dimension DQ chart, aggregate responses, and areas of disagreement.
5. Discuss what needs to happen next. Identify missing evidence, unresolved trade-offs, conditions, or work needed before commitment.

What do the assessment results mean?

The results describe participants' judgments about the decision evidence. A strong score is not a probability of success, and an average score does not settle a disagreement. The useful question is what evidence explains the scores and what action would address the weakness.

DQNavigator's assessment uses six Decision Quality dimensions and a proprietary 24-criterion assessment developed by Project Victor Co., Ltd. The methodology and research basis explains the distinction between established Decision Quality principles and the platform's assessment design.

How are individual assessments handled?

Participants assess independently. The facilitator has private monitoring views to follow participation and individual responses, while controlled aggregate results support the group discussion. Independent scoring therefore does not mean the participant's response is invisible to the facilitator.

Can the facilitator run more than one round?

Yes. The workshop supports multiple assessment rounds, pause and resume controls, and preserved earlier results. This lets a facilitator revisit the exercise while keeping the distinction between the active round and historical evidence clear.

Any comparison across rounds should consider whether the evidence package, participants, or exercise conditions changed. A score change alone does not prove that decision quality improved.

What can participants take from the exercise?

The exercise gives managers practice in separating evidence from advocacy, recognizing weak links in a recommendation, discussing differences constructively, and identifying specific next actions. The discussion can produce questions for the team, information requests, and conditions to explore before commitment.

Is a workshop assessment a formal enterprise approval?

A training exercise is separate from an organization's formal approval process. DQNavigator also has an Enterprise core for decision cycles, review, and follow-up, with broader governance and platform management still in development. Read the current Enterprise development status before considering an organizational rollout.

How do we prepare?

Tell us the management audience, approximate group size, the types of decisions they review, and the learning objectives. We will discuss the case, delivery format, duration, facilitation, platform access, and commercial terms. You can start with our illustrative management review questions.