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22 Sep 20
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Your organisation upholds racism and discrimination

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19 Sep 20
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The approach of DFS in Action

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04 Sep 20
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Introducing the approach of Decision Free Solutions

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07 Nov 19
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The Role(s) of Leadership Explained

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25 Jul 21
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Achieving inclusion, diversity and performance all at once

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07 Dec 20
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7 common misconceptions about “The New Way of Working”

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02 Dec 20
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How a Paradigm Shift in understanding “Decisions” changes everything

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10 May 19
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Why so many women don’t get the birthing experience they hope for

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06 May 19
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Resolve frustration. Utilise expertise. Free up resources. Make change happen.

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26 Feb 19
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Decision-free management is not an oxymoron, it is a paradox!

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19 Feb 19
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How to predict future behaviour of individuals as well as organisations

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18 Feb 19
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On experts and expert organisations

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25 Jan 19
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The Five Principles of TONNNO that will avoid Decision Making

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22 Dec 18
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The Four Steps of DICE that will Change the World

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18 Dec 18
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40 reasons Mae did not have the birth she wanted

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09 Nov 18
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On decision making

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05 Nov 18
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Decision Free Procurement

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03 Apr 18
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This Is What I Predicted About Trump Following His Inauguration

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31 May 17
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In Nederland wordt Best Value Procurement vakkundig verkracht

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20 Mar 17
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Best Value Procurement in the Dutch Court Room

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DFS helps you to become a High Performance Organisation

Many organisations want to improve organisational performance and strive to become recognised as a High Performance Organisation (HPO), but what is it, and what benchmarks to use? Decision Free Solutions explains what an HPO is, and how you can become (as well as recognise) one.

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The alternative to decision making is transparency.

Decisions are conclusions or resolutions reached after consideration (the Oxford dictionary definition of ‘decision’). When something needs to be considered it means it is not transparent. Create transparency and what follows are not decisions but ‘the logical next step’. When something is transparent you don’t have to think. Transparency allows decisions to be replaced by approvals.

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Leadership performance is easy to predict.

In every leadership-role the aim is to create the conditions to achieve the aims against minimal risk. The needed combination of experience and skills is always different. Simple observations help to identify the right person.

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Everybody can manage risk, only few can minimise it.

In every organisation there are both identified and unidentified risks. Unidentified risks occur e.g. when aims are not clearly understood, when it is unclear whether the right expertise is available, or used appropriately. All of which results in decision making. To manage identified risks is straightforward, to minimise risk you must avoid decision making. Which is what an expert does. But what does it take to become an expert?

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To stay ahead, freeing up resources beats cutting cost.

In good times it may be relatively easy to make profits. In bad times relying on quality alone can be challenging. But the approach of “cutting cost” will affect the quality of your solution, and margins will get affected. Implementing DFS improves the utilisation of available expertise, improving quality and (thus) bringing cost down. This is how expert organisations stay ahead of competition, and retain healthy margins.

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That decisions increase risk is not semantics, it is logic.

That decisions increase risk follows from the dictionary definition and use of logic. Few experience decisions in this way, for various obvious reasons. Many unsubstantiated choices are made based on experience or are educated guesses. We get a lot of decisions right. When the risk does occur, usually much later, we often fail to make the link with the decision. What is more, making decisions often makes us feel good. But the risk is still for real.

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