How the Military Decision-Making Process can help your organisation to cope with the pandemic (part 3)

This is Part 3 of a series of articles on how you can make the best decisions for your business or organisation during the Coronavirus pandemic.

So in my previous articles I talked about the challenge of making decisions in complex environments. Complex environments are dynamic. Where things continually change, and you have to continually update your situational awareness, decisions and actions.

If you don’t do this it’s like trying to play tennis with a blindfold.

We are used to making decisions in complicated environments (more on what this is and what it means here).

But what it means for us is that we have a fundamentally different approach to organisational decision making and action taking, when operating in a complex environment.

This involves planning, making decisions, implementing, and then reassessing what the situation is, adjusting your plan, and making new decisions. This is essentially what happens in the OODA loop, which I also talked about in my previous article. (this may also remind you of the PDCA cycle).

The challenge with the OODA loop is that is kind of tricky to do well as an individual. But as a team, or an organization…