Power, Bias, and the Politics of Decision-Making
Power, Bias, and the Politics of Decision-Making: Navigating the C-Suite Under Pressure A reflective essay by the Creator of APO Abstract This essay explores the anatomy of power, bias, and politics within executive decision-making. It dissects how personal history, organisational culture, and systemic incentives converge to distort clarity at the highest levels of leadership. Drawing […]
Save Money with MCDM 2025
Save Money with MCDM 2025 APO has the potential to delight your Board, Executive and strategy development personnel. Many of our potential customers with large project portfolios ask us for help in answering the following questions: Of course, there are many more related and unrelated questions that could also be asked about project portfolios Opportunity […]
Getting the Team to Pull Together
This article talks about how to get everyone on the same page in terms of strategic intention, all pulling in the one direction. In business there are often barriers that prevent everyone working towards the same goals. While there is a view that all stakeholders within an organisation should be “on the same page”, commonly […]
Selecting Options from Differing Markets
This article discusses how to determine which investment option provides the greatest advantage when investment alternatives need to be measured using differing value frameworks? The locality of the investment often contributes to the criteria by which the investment is measured. Market conditions in India will impact decisions to invest there, which will be different from […]
Scenario-based Planning
The rise of the pandemic in 2019 injected uncertainty into business across the entire world Planning for the impact of COVID-19 was enabled by the business’s ability to analyse and compare investment opportunities under multivariate sets of value measures to determine their relative contribution to business value under pandemic and non-pandemic conditions. Having the capacity […]