The State of Enterprise Decisions

The proposed scope for a recurring research programme on how organisations manage consequential decisions.

Research statusMethod in development

No survey findings, benchmarks or maturity statistics have been published.

Build an evidence base for the discipline.

The programme is designed to measure decision visibility, ownership, architecture, automation, observability, governance and improvement practices across sectors.

The first edition remains in programme design. The questionnaire, sampling approach and publication controls will be disclosed before findings are released.

Decision visibility
Ownership and authority
Architecture and reuse
Automation and human review
Outcome measurement
DecisionOps maturity

Authority requires disciplined claims.

EDAF™ separates verified facts, framework definitions, reasonable inferences, assumptions, proposals and unknowns. Candidate measures remain labelled until their methods are validated.

Primary referencesOMG · Decision Model and Notation 1.5 ↗ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2022 · Architecture description ↗NIST · AI Risk Management Framework ↗EUR-Lex · Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 ↗