DFS, Making Expertise Matter

A framework in organisational science

Become a high-performance organisation,
by making expertise matter.

  • Higher performance
  • Lower operational costs
  • Less discrimination
  • Less psychological harm

Decision Free Solutions shows how an organisation can optimally utilise the expertise of its people. The four benefits go hand in hand because they share one structural condition — choices people are expected to act on, without anyone having to explain them or answer their questions first — and they improve together where that condition is addressed.

What DFS is

Perceptiveness

You cannot see it from the outside.

Everyone perceives something of value, and some perceive far more than their title shows. Where an organisation recognises what its people see and puts it to use, it performs better, and its people enjoy their work more, because what they see counts. What is good for the organisation is good for the people in it.

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Decision free

A decision free organisation is not one where nobody chooses. It is one where nobody is expected to act on a choice before its reasoning has been given and their questions have been answered. That is when what people perceive reaches the work.

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Working together

Talks, a week-long workshop for leadership teams, and work inside the organisation, all starting from the papers.

Ways to work together