Every EPSD engagement ends with a single document: an Executive Decision Brief. It is designed to stand up in board settings, safe to circulate internally, and structured so leadership can act on it without further engagement.
In plain, jargon-free business English, the report examines the system that supports how decisions are made, resourced, authorized, and enforced across the scope of the engagement. The output is a single document your leadership team can act on immediately.
The brief is produced using EPSD's CANDID process. Every CANDID report follows the same structure. The sections below describe what each part of the document contains.
Identifies the engagement scope, the executive sponsor, the evidence period examined during the engagement, and the document version. This establishes the boundaries of the assessment so the reader knows what was and was not examined.
Written for the senior executive, usually the CEO, who commissioned the engagement. States what was examined, what was found, and what corrective decisions are being put forward. A reader who goes no further still has the full picture.
An inventory of prior decisions we examined to surface failure patterns within the system that supports executive decision-making at your organization. Each decision is classified (explicit or implicit), briefly described, and traced to its structural consequences.
A scoring framework that measures the structural health of the organization's decision-making across multiple dimensions. Each dimension is assessed independently and assigned a severity classification. The resulting scores give leadership a single view of where the system is functioning, where it is strained, where failures have become self-reinforcing, and where failure has become normalized.
Names the primary destabilizing condition, identifies conditions that reinforce the destabilization, and maps how these conditions compound one another. Includes a visual diagram of the reinforcing cycle.
Categorizes the operational, financial, governance, and mission risks that have materialized or are materializing. Each of these business risk categories is treated independently so leadership can track improvement in each area separately.
A set of corrective decisions, documented using EPSD's decision-system methodology, to provide your leadership team a repeateable framework to make decisions that support execution through context, structure, documentation, and communication.
A 180-day stabilization timeline including milestones in the first and second 90 days, and specific, measurable and actionable metrics that confirm progress.
Defines what success looks like, when to expect it, and what relapse signals to watch for. Allows leadership to measure progress without requiring further engagement.
A visual heatmap of the decision integrity system and a description of the methodology used to conduct the assessment. The heatmap provides a single-page view of where the system is healthy and where it is not. The methodology section explains how the assessment was conducted so the reader can evaluate the basis for every finding.
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