In about two hours, use AI to turn 'grow internationally' or 'fix margins' into two to four real alternatives, with constraints, criteria, a deadline and one accountable owner, ready for your judgment.
What you will be able to do
- One decision question, with a date: Rewrite a broad ambition you are working on as a single decision question with a clear scope and a decision date, so the team knows exactly what is being decided and by when.
- Two to four real alternatives: Draft options that are genuinely different, each with its cost, its conditions and what it would take to succeed. Learn to spot straw-man options added only to make a favourite look good.
- Constraints and criteria that separate the options: List the limits on budget, time, people, capacity and risk. Mark each as fixed or negotiable, and choose three to five criteria that actually tell the alternatives apart.
- One owner with clear decision rights: Name one accountable owner and write down what they decide, what they recommend and what they must escalate, plus what happens if the deadline is missed.
- AI that challenges, not just polishes: Prompt an AI tool to find missing costs, weak assumptions and the strongest case against each option, including the one you favour. Then decide which challenges to accept, check or reject.
- A brief you can trust on one page: Cut the brief to one page without dropping the costs, conditions or fixed constraints that could change the choice. Check it for a sound conclusion and for a polished story that hides what a recommendation really requires.
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