A guide to decision enablement
Seeing Clearly
The instruments, what they measure and what they will not, in plain language. Where most readers should start.
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Resources
The Ingqiqo library
Booklets on how decisions are named, measured, made coherent and told.
Read the open ones here in full, with no sign-up. Take a PDF home for whatever it is worth to you. The working tools sit behind a subscription.
I Read in full
Every page, in the browser. The Price of Better opens with its outline and Part One; the whole book is in the PDF edition. Examples in the booklets are composite or fictitious, and every figure is illustrative.
Capability and compliance
Company Profile
Who we are, the method, the platform beneath the work, and the documents a procurement committee asks for.
Issued at the start of every engagement
Engagement Pack
How we work, what we commit to and refuse, who decides what, and the answers you would otherwise ask for one at a time.
Judging an engagement fairly
The Progress Record
How progress is tracked and impairments logged, so a sponsor can judge time, effort and results without guesswork.
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Decision failures, seen from every seat
The Price of Better
Why organisations choose what looks better and end up worse off: the Braess paradox, the Beer Game, the system archetypes, ten seats, eight cases and the cost of each failure.
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Stories of decision
The Casebook
Thirteen composite cases: institutional errors, motive depths, paradoxes, board rooms. Each is worked out for the seminar, and the book closes with an ode.
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II PDF editions
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The Casebook
Thirteen stories, their lenses, seminar questions and katas, print-ready.
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The Currency of Craft
What the work is worth, how that worth is established, and the warranty with its limits.
- For members
The Decision Portfolio
The full range of instruments, domain by domain, with the question each one answers.
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Seeing Clearly
The guide to decision enablement, for the desk or the coffee table.
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The Price of Better
Decision failures from every seat, what each costs, and how the method closes the way in. Outline and Part One free to read online.
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The Progress Record
For sponsors and audit committees who want it on paper.
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III The Decision Dojo
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One kick, ten thousand times.
A courseware engine for the craft of deciding. Plug in any material and run it through ten gates. Roll challenges by mode, speed and complexity, climb a quest board, and keep a character sheet, an XP ledger and an insight archive. Search the whole Academy with Boolean strings: six schools, thirty-nine disciplines, seventeen certification families.
- In the browse
- Every tab, school, track and credential is readable, so you can judge it before you pay.
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- Logging XP, claiming challenges, filing insights, the event log and your own saved progress. You sign in with Google, using the email you subscribed with.
IV For clients and partners
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The Coherence Architecture
The full method, the semantic model and the platform beneath the work. It is shared under NDA with clients and partners for technical evaluation, and access is granted person by person, through Google sign-in.
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Meaning, made coherent.
The booklets show how the work is done. If one of them describes the decision that keeps coming back to you, bring it.