This short slide show examines how mapping the decision process visually using bCisive can lead to more considered decisions made with greater confidence.


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Slide 1: bCisive - An easier way to choose. © 2008 Austhink Software Pty Ltd

Slide 2: You’re in business. You make decisions every day. Often difficult decisions. bCisive helps make it simpler. Let us show you how.

Slide 3: What shall we call our new product? Who should we hire as Director of Marketing? How can we improve our customer service record? How can we boost sales? What features do we include in our next release?

Slide 4: Decision making…

  • It’s a core activity in every business
  • It’s crucial to success
Most decision makers approach it like this:
  1. establish the problem
  2. identify the options
  3. evaluate the pros and cons
  4. decide
So why does it often get complicated, stressful and time-consuming?



Slide 5: What characterizes the standard decision process?

  • It's INFORMAL
  • It's DELIBERATIVE
  • It's HAPHAZARD

Slide 6: It’s hampered by common hurdles:

  • Lost thinking on previous decisions
  • Unproductive meetings
  • Scattered information
  • Time pressure
  • Power plays

Slide 7: All this can cause decision makers headaches.

  • Mistakes arising from rushed or poorly considered decisions
  • Anxiety, stress and lack of confidence in decisions
  • Conflict and difficulty reaching consensus
  • Inefficiency collating and analyzing information
  • Lost thinking making future review of decisions difficult
  • Lack of accountability and difficulty demonstrating your reasoning

Slide 8: The solution: Decision Mapping. It captures the problem, the options, and the pros. It does it visually. It supports the way you already think.

Slide 9: Where does decision mapping fit? Where is the support tool?

Slide 10: Enter bCisive, Austhink’s simple, visual tool for decision mapping

Slide 11: With bCisive, you can:

  • organize in one place the material relating to a decision
  • quickly survey the options, arguments and evidence
  • share the thinking with colleagues, clients, or your boss
  • keep a record of the thinking behind the decision

Slide 12: bCisive offers:

  • Decision map building
  • Intuitive interface
  • Fast capture of information
  • Automatic generation of decision summaries
  • Sharing of maps and linked documents as bMap Bundles

Slide 13: What does bCisive do for you?

  • Be more CONFIDENT in your decisions
  • SAVE TIME and EFFORT
  • Build CONSENSUS
  • Be more ACCOUNTABLE
  • LIVE LONGER by reducing decision-related stress

Slide 14: So what’s your next decision?

Slide 15: bCisive. The decision is easy.