DFS, Making Expertise Matter

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About Decision Free Solutions

Decision Free Solutions (DFS) is a framework in organisational science: how an organisation can optimally utilise the expertise of its people.

How it is built

DFS is built deductively. It starts from two first principles: reality is causal, and people perceive its conditions and rules unequally. From these, with precise definitions of decision, expertise and risk, the rest follows by logic: why organisations run the way most of them do, what that costs them and their people, and the conditions under which the expertise they hold is optimally utilised. The framework is found rather than invented. It is what the logic produces.

Precision is what makes the difference. Organisational science has studied decision-making since 1947 without defining what a decision is. Define it as a choice not fully substantiated to contribute to the outcome it serves, and a question opens that could not be asked before: does this choice need to be a decision at all? Problems the field has studied apart from one another, the performance an organisation falls short of, the growing cost of running it, discrimination that outlasts every programme against it, and psychological harm at work, then turn out to share one structural condition: choices people are expected to act on, without anyone having to explain them or answer their questions first. The reasoning is in the papers, open to anyone to check.

The EoND

The environment-of-no-decision-making (EoND) is the set of conditions under which an organisation optimally utilises its expertise, in one drawing: six principles for communication between people who perceive different things, four steps for any piece of work, held in place by people who take up a leadership role wherever they are.

The environment-of-no-decision-makingThe environment-of-no-decision-making drawn as a ring. In its outer band, the six principles of communication: Transparency, Objectivity, No Relationships, No Details, No Pretence, No Requirements. Inside them, four steps for any piece of work, deepening in colour: 1 Define, 2 Identify, 3 Clarify, 4 Execute, around a teal centre that reads Making Expertise Matter. Internal conditions lie just inside the edge, external conditions outside it. Along the bottom: created, communicated and sustained by decision free leaders.TransparencyObjectivityNo RelationshipsNo DetailsNo PretenceNo Requirements1 Define2 Identify3 Clarify4 ExecuteMakingExpertiseMatterTONNNNODICEENVIRONMENT-OF-NO-DECISION-MAKINGCREATED, COMMUNICATED AND SUSTAINED BY DECISION FREE LEADERSINTERNAL CONDITIONSEXTERNAL CONDITIONSINTERNAL CONDITIONSEXTERNAL CONDITIONS

Who is behind it

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DFS is developed by Jorn Verweij, in Hilversum, the Netherlands. He has worked on it for more than twelve years.

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Decision Free Solutions is a registered trade name of Trees with Character, Koningsstraat 156, 1211 NT Hilversum, the Netherlands. Chamber of Commerce (KvK) 65762355. VAT NL001687489B59. Contact: info@decisionfreesolutions.com.

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