Building Decisions
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Decision-making is critical. Leaders make decisions daily, often hyperfocusing on cost at the expense of value for society and with negative impacts on the environment and climate. Project teams are poorly equipped to make decisions and prefer to avoid conflicts instead of a healthy discussion based on different perspectives. We need to learn ways of making decisions that give better outcomes.
This book presents a framework and practical guidelines for everyday decision-making. The authors introduce the reader to a specific decision-making system, Choosing by Advantages (CBA), and explain the CBA Tabular decision-making method. Providing detailed explanations using relatable examples such as choosing a phone and renovating a kitchen, the book also uses case studies of large construction projects from the authors professional careers, including a museum in San Francisco, a tunnel in England, and the main railway station in Munich, to explain the CBA method. These varied examples will help the reader to improve their own decision-making process through critical reflection.
Written by three curious experts who founded a research lab focusing on decision-making and want the world to make better decisions. Paz, Annett, and Randi have published dozens of peer-reviewed papers and trained multiple practitioners and engineers on how to make collaborative decisions using CBA. They have designed this book to help professionals, leaders, anyone, and everyone make better and more inclusive decisions and get better outcomes.
Paz Arroyo earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, where she was introduced to Choosing by Advantages (CBA) by her professors, Glenn Ballard, and Iris Tommelein. She has published dozens of scientific papers proving CBA benefits and making this method well-known globally in the lean construction community. She has consulted and taught CBA in Chile, Mexico, India, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Norway, and more. Paz also developed a popular Coursera massive open online class that teaches CBA, among other project management methods; this class has reached 291,506 students since 2016. Paz also has over 28,800 reads on her articles in ResearchGate. Annett Schöttle earned her Ph.D. at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) on requirements and incentives to create a collaborative Lean project delivery system for capital projects based on the self-determination theory. For her thesis, she was a research associate at Capital Programs at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) and, in parallel, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. After returning to Germany, Annett started working as a Lean consultant. She helps different project teams in the design and construction phases to make processes transparent for improvement and to create alignment. Her passion is transforming the construction industry and improving teams to deliver successful projects. She regularly lectures at international universities and co-founded CollabDecisions, a platform to share knowledge on how to make decisions collaboratively. Randi Christensen is an engineer by background and earned her PhD at Aalborg University in Denmark, focusing on how we learn from project to project. The Ph.D. was action-based and included working on site, where she found that transparent processes enable people with different backgrounds to contribute to planning and decision-making. She has been employed as an external lecturer, supervisor for Master Students and PhD, and as an external censor by Aalborg University. As Sustainability Director at COWI, an international engineering consultancy, she keeps focusing on decision-making as this is the key point where we can drive the projects in a more sustainable direction by including multiple voices and pools of knowledge.
Foreword by Glenn Ballard
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is a Decision?
Chapter 2: Why Decisions Do Not Stick
Chapter 3: Focus on Value and Cost
Chapter 4: Changing Bad Habits
Chapter 5: CBA, A Sound Decision-making Method
Chapter 6: CBA Tabular Method: Sustainable Museum Case Study
Chapter 7: Not all Decision-making Methods are Created Equal
Chapter 8: CBA and the Tendering Procedure of Construction Projects
Chapter 9: Building a Collaborative Decision-making Process
Chapter 10: Decisions and Innovations for our Future
Chapter 11: How to Build Better Decisions
Glossary
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.4.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 32 Halftones, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie |
| Technik ► Bauwesen | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-85466-9 / 1032854669 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-85466-3 / 9781032854663 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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