Foundational Building Block

Paul Daoust
SCIO Asset Management Inc.
2 min readFeb 8, 2024

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SCIO Decision Intelligence Framework

The Decision Intelligence Framework (DIF) distills knowledge into better decisions. It is part of a practical and functional operational management system designed to help leaders deliver more value from their people, processes, and technology through their assets.

Almost every organization chooses to manage in the task domain, becoming action-based and result-oriented. They focus on business processes, data and analytics, or documented policies, standards and procedures. Performance may be limited if the organization becomes highly centred on these things.

SCIO believes these organizations are missing a critical element — the decisions that govern their activities and how they’re made.

Organizations serious about achieving operational excellence should choose to manage primarily in the decision domain. This is why SCIO offers a management system built for leaders to manage, lead and govern through better decision-making that directs the organization’s vast and scarce resources to higher-value activities.

DIFfing into the Bigger Picture

The Enterprise Operational Management System (EOMS) contains key operational practices (left), a new and novel performance dashboard (right), and governance (bottom). Governance includes management review, audit & assurance, and improvement & innovation. The key operational practices listed (there are more) are all decision-intensive and represent a starter kit for a functional management system. It doesn’t matter where you start; it can be built quickly. Begin where you believe undelivered value is at stake.

The DIF is the foundational building block that supports all operational practices. The framework is a decision capability platform and canvas. It manages the right decisions with the right intelligence aligned with the organization’s values. It contains a playbook, training course, and software application. Implementation is quick and easy.

Quality decision-making and decision management are central to the organization’s ability to deliver maximum value on its odyssey toward operational excellence. The DIF is the differentiator, a powerful weapon operational leader heroes use to slay that wicket villain, value leakage.

Book a Decision Intelligence Framework demo with SCIO.

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Paul Daoust
SCIO Asset Management Inc.

Thought, Knowledge & Decision Enthusiast in Operational Excellence and Asset Management for Industrials at Scio Asset Management