{"id":20892,"date":"2013-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/slower-decision-processes\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:52:59","slug":"slower-decision-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/slower-decision-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Slower decision processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/web-Decision-Rights.jpg\" alt=\"cartoon, decision making\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" \/>We work with large multinational organizations and in the past a fairly reliable indicator of a slowdown in business is an extension of decision-making times, a reluctance to make a final decision, and an increase in the number of people involved.<\/p>\n<p>This may indicate a growing aversion to risk, or perhaps that people have less resources to spend an external support so they consider them more carefully.<\/p>\n<p>As we speak the economic signals in the US and UK (two big markets for us at Global Integration), are becoming more encouraging but confusingly, after a period when decision-making recovered in the last couple of years, it seems to be slowing down again.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t really know why. \u00a0Sometimes it&#8217;s for what could be great reasons for us. For example a large client recently shelved some European programmes because they wanted to consider matrix management and virtual teams as a much larger global priority \u2013 the opportunity could be larger, but the decision is delayed by involving global colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>It also be a function of organizational complexity &#8211; particularly as organizations become more global and more integrated, decision processes can become slower. It&#8217;s something we encounter regularly in <a title=\"matrix training\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/matrix-management-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our matrix management training<\/a>. There seems to be a drift towards higher levels of involvement and a greater search for consensus amongst people involved in decision-making. Often this is an unconscious decision and it can be helpful to get teams to think through the specific decision rights for their routine decisions.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"RACI\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/blog\/on-raci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RACI <\/a>is a fairly bureaucratic and cumbersome tool for allocating responsibilities, but in the context of decision-making, it&#8217;s real utility is to identify the I\u2018s and the Cs. &#8216;Consulted&#8217; means I will ask you before I decide, and &#8216;Informed&#8217; means I will let you know when I have decided. Neither of these roles are decision-makers: they don&#8217;t need to attend all of your meetings and they don&#8217;t get a vote!<\/p>\n<p>Take the time to decide who needs to be involved in key decisions on what process you will use. (You can see some tools and frameworks for doing this in <a title=\"Making the Matrix Work\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/matrix-management\/making-matrix-work-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my book &#8220;Making the matrix work&#8221;<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Are you seeing changes to the decision processes and timelines in your business? What&#8217;s your view?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We work with large multinational organizations and in the past a fairly reliable indicator of a slowdown in business is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog","training-matrix-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Slower decision processes - Global Integration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We work with large multinational organizations and in the past a fairly reliable indicator of a slowdown in business is an extension of decision-making\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/slower-decision-processes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Slower decision processes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We work with large multinational organizations and in the past a fairly reliable indicator of a slowdown in business is an extension of decision-making\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/slower-decision-processes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Global Integration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-08-13T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-11T15:52:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/web-Decision-Rights.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevan Hall\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kevan Hall\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/slower-decision-processes\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/slower-decision-processes\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kevan Hall\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3ad6577af9c33612e410fbcdc3ff2a9a\"},\"headline\":\"Slower decision processes\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-08-13T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-11T15:52:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/slower-decision-processes\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":379,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/slower-decision-processes\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/web-Decision-Rights.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/slower-decision-processes\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/slower-decision-processes\\\/\",\"name\":\"Slower decision processes - 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