Decision Orchestrator Review – An Awesome App To Make Decisions

I am terrible at taking decisions. That is why I especially liked today’s solution. Decision Orchestrator is a cloud-based collaborative decision making tool.

In this Decision Orchestrator review, we will look at its features, interface and see how it can be of use to you.

Taking a Decision About a Decision Tool

At the end of the day, decision making is a multi-step process. Each step requires structured tools and defined artifacts. The combination of tools, decisions, and artifacts provided the impetus for Anders Lisdorf, CEO of Sensor Six the company behind Decision Orchestrator, to develop a tool. He calls Decision Orchestrator a “SaaS based system for collaborative Decision Making”.

In other words, Decision Orchestrator provides a streamlined and linear process for organizations to arrive at decisions. “These decisions which seemed very different on the surface actually have the same core,” he says, referring to the variety of decisions he encountered while developing the solution.

The Analytical Hierarchy Process or AHP is used for pairwise comparisons to assess priorities in a multi criteria decision. The basis for the word “collaborative” in “Collaborative Decision Making comes from the fact that all parts of the decision process can be shared online between collaborators.” Anders Lisdorf points to the relatively easy-to-use interface and cheap pricing as distinguishing characteristics between his solution and others in the market.

You can make a wide variety of decisions using the system. For example, you can make personal decisions as well as professional decisions. This means you can make decisions about your next car as easily as about the next business application you need to invest in. The interesting thing is that a variety of decisions are already built into the system. The benefits for businesses is that they can start making better decisions, faster without investing in multiple different decision support systems.

Decision Making with Decision Orchestrator

The process to make a decision within the system is relatively simple and linear. Broadly there are several steps to decision-making in the solution: defining the decision and its objectives, documenting and prioritizing available options, adding and quantifying available alternatives, establishing criteria and collaborating with appropriate stakeholders to arrive at a final decision, conducting analysis, arriving at the decision using analytics and value judgments, and providing feedback through the wall.

Each of these steps is further subdivided into a number of steps. For example, the aspect prioritization method calculates priorities based on a number of parameters including brand value, risk, strategic impact, and customer value. You can vary each of these variable types and arrive at a consolidated aspect.

You can define multiple custom roles within the solution. For example, you can define a business analyst role within the solution to evaluate business context and rate business decisions. Management can validate and provide inputs based on similar criteria. You can even solicit feedback from users through polls and combine qualitative opinion with quantitative assessment.

Benefits of Using Decision Orchestrator

Probably, the biggest reason to opt for the solution is its approach to decision-making. I liked that it broke down complex decision-making to specific, quantifiable decision points and establishes a process to make decisions. That you can do this using a single and simple solution is even more of an advantage because it integrates functionality and features from multiple solutions into a single comprehensive solution. I also liked that the solution combines qualitative and quantitative aspects of decision-making.

Multiple roles and security permission only add to the solution’s attractiveness. This is because it enables you to reinvent and categorize inputs from multiple stakeholders for a decision.

Pricing

Decision Orchestrator has three user tiers based on several parameters including number of decision types. The three tiers – Single, Basic, and Enterprise – all allow an unlimited number of collaborators. This means that your decisions are informed and educated (and richer) based on a number of inputs from multiple stakeholders, regardless of pricing.

The Bottom Line

There is just one decision that you should take with regard to this solution and that is to invest in it.

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