Rubrics Cubed: Are We Prisoners of ORSA-Style Decision-Making?

Abstract

This article argues that acquisition professionals who have developed psychological and cultural preferences for ORSA-style decision-making may be blinded to three other decision-making rubrics and the valuable insights that can be derived from them. The three alternative rubrics explained by the authors include: programmatic (by-the-book), participative (politics), and emergent (complex or chaotic) decisionmaking. The authors go on to provide insight into those alternatives and demonstrate the way in which decision-makers can see complex cause and effect relationships and diagnose a rubrics cubed decision-making pattern.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA487644

Entities

People

  • Christopher R. Paparone
  • James A. Crupi

Organizations

  • United States Joint Forces Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Department Of Defense
  • Health Care
  • Interagency Coordination
  • International Relations
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Prisoners
  • Psychology
  • Public Administration
  • Reasoning
  • Security
  • Social Psychology
  • Terrorists
  • United States

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  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design