Building Decisions
How Choosing by Advantages Drives Project Success
- 170 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Building Decisions
How Choosing by Advantages Drives Project Success
About this book
Decision-making is critical. Leaders make decisions daily, often hyper-focusing on cost at the expense of value for society and with negative impacts on the environment and the climate. Project teams are poorly equipped to make decisions and prefer to avoid conflicts instead of having a healthy discussion based on different perspectives. We need to learn ways of making decisions that give better outcomes.
Building Decisions presents a framework and practical guidelines for everyday decision-making. The authors introduce the reader to a specific decision-making system, Choosing By Advantages (CBA), and explain the CBA Tabular decision-making method. Providing detailed explanations using relatable examples such as choosing a phone and renovating a kitchen, the book also uses case studies of large construction projects from the authors' professional careers, including a museum in San Francisco, a tunnel in England, and the main railway station in Munich, to explain the CBA method. These varied examples will help the reader to improve their own decision-making process through critical reflection.
Written by three curious experts who founded a research lab focusing on decision-making and want the world to make better decisions. Paz, Annett, and Randi have published dozens of peer-reviewed papers and trained multiple practitioners and engineers on how to make collaborative decisions using CBA. They have designed this book to help professionals, leaders, anyone, and everyone make better and more inclusive decisions and achieve better outcomes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Glenn Ballard
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What is a decision?
- 2 Why decisions do not stick
- 3 Focus on value and cost
- 4 Changing bad habits
- 5 CBA: A sound decision-making method
- 6 The CBA Tabular method: Sustainable museum case study
- 7 Not all decision-making methods are created equal
- 8 CBA and the tendering procedure of construction projects
- 9 Building a collaborative decision-making process
- 10 Decisions and innovations for our future
- 11 How to build better decisions?
- Glossary
- Index