Decision frameworks and conceptual models used in governance, strategy and organisational analysis.
Conceptual Models and Decision Frameworks
Herbert Simon
Bounded Rationality
Concept explaining that decision makers operate with limited information and cognitive capacity.
International BowTie Foundation
Bow-Tie Risk Analysis
Visual risk analysis framework mapping threats, barriers and consequences.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Complex Adaptive Systems
Concept describing systems composed of interacting agents that produce emergent outcomes.
Cognitive Edge
Cynefin Framework
Decision framework distinguishing between simple, complicated, complex and chaotic environments.
Committee of the Regions
Multi-Level Governance
Framework describing governance distributed across multiple institutional levels.
Boyd Institute
OODA Loop
Decision cycle describing how organisations observe, orient, decide and act in dynamic environments.
Agency Theory
Principal-Agent Problem
Concept describing conflicts between principals and agents within governance systems.
Corporate Finance Institute
Stakeholder Theory
Theory proposing that organisations should consider the interests of multiple stakeholders.
James Reason
Swiss Cheese Model
Accident causation model describing layered defences and failure pathways.
Stafford Beer
Viable System Model
Cybernetic model describing the organisational structures required for organisational viability.