bCisive Slide Show

Slide 2: You’re in business. You make decisions every day. Often difficult decisions. bCisive helps make it simpler. Let us show you how.

Slide 3: What shall we Who should we call our new hire as Director product? of Marketing? How can we improve our customer service record? How can we What features boost sales? do we include in our next release?

Slide 4: Decision making…  It’s a core activity in every business  It’s crucial to success Most decision makers approach it like this: → establish the problem → identify the options → evaluate the pros and cons → decide So why does it often get complicated, stressful and time-consuming?

Slide 5: Question What characterises the standard decision process? Fact Fact Fact It's INFORMAL It's DELIBERATIVE It's HAPHAZARD

Slide 6: It’s hampered by common hurdles: Lost thinking on previous Unproductive decisions meetings Scattered information Time pressure Power plays

Slide 7: All this can cause decision makers headaches.  Mistakes arising from rushed or poorly considered decisions  Anxiety, stress and lack of confidence in decisions  Conflict and difficulty reaching consensus  Inefficiency collating and analysing information  Lost thinking making future review of decisions difficult  Lack of accountability and difficulty demonstrating your reasoning

Slide 8: The solution: Decision Mapping  It captures the problem, the options, and the pros Question As new CEO, what shall I do about my and cons suspicions of corruption at Hammond?  It does it visually  It supports the way you Option Option already think Launch an investigation Say nothing Pro Con Option Pro Con Ensure an open, May damage Conduct discreet Does not risk May put me in legal honest company Hammond's initial enquiries to Hammond's good jeopardy culture reputation and see if an reputation share price investigation is warranted

Slide 9: Where does decision mapping fit? Excel Powerpoint Project Process numbers Make presentations Manage projects Accounting Process accounts Where is the Word Produce documents CRM support tool? VISIO Dashboards Produce diagrams Access Communicator Manage databases Communicate with Infopath IM, voice, video Gather data using forms OneNote Find and share data

Slide 10: Enter bCisive Austhink’s simple, visual tool for decision mapping

Slide 11: With bCisive, you can:  organize in one place the material relating to a decision  quickly survey the options, arguments and evidence  share the thinking with colleagues, clients, or your boss  keep a record of the thinking behind the decision

Slide 12: bCisive offers:  Decision map building  Intuitive interface  Fast capture of information  Automatic generation of decision summaries  Sharing of maps and linked documents as bMap Bundles

Slide 13: What does bCisive do for you? Why bCisive? be more SAVE TIME build be more LIVE LONGER CONFIDENT and EFFORT CONSENSUS ACCOUNTABLE by reducing in your decision-related decisions stress

Slide 14: So what’s your next decision?

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