Decision diagrams have emerged as a powerful tool in combinatorial optimisation, offering a structured and compact representation of vast solution spaces. These graphical models, which encapsulate ...

Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagrams (PSDDs) are an elegant framework for learning from and reasoning about data. They provide tractable representations of discrete probability distributions ...

Consensus decision-making fosters collaboration but can slow progress if not managed effectively. Balancing consensus with leadership ensures efficiency without sacrificing inclusivity and engagement.

In a small, highly aligned team, collective decision making can be efficient. But as an organization scales up, consensus-driven business decision making becomes a bottleneck. In the modern workforce, ...

A fair percentage of leaders, especially in startups, professional groups and not-for-profits, pursue the holy grail of decision making by consensus. But it’s usually a bad idea, leading often to ...

This post is a review of Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making. By Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei. Yale University Press. 277 pp. $32.50. Rational Choice Theory ...

Picture the most successful companies in the world; they have one thing in common — an effective organizational structure. But what exactly does that entail and how can it make or break a business? If ...