Decision Clarity

1. Term

Decision Clarity. The first of the five components of the Decision Framework.

2. Definition

Decision Clarity is the practice of establishing shared understanding of what a decision actually is: what it includes, what it excludes, and who owns it.

3. Purpose

Most people carry decisions that have never been named as decisions. Naming them is the precondition for everything else in the framework.

4. Scope

The first movement in any Decision Framework engagement.

5. Components

• Naming the decision.
• Defining its boundaries.
• Assigning ownership.

6. Outputs

A decision stated in the client’s own words, with a clear owner.

7. Relationships

• Part of: The Decision Framework
• Constrains: Strategic Sequencing. Nothing can be sequenced until it has been named as a decision; sequencing an unnamed item produces false order
• Produces: A named decision: what it includes, what it excludes, and who owns it
• Operationalised by: The Choose Forward Intensive. The Intensive operationalises the first movement of the Decision Framework (Decision Clarity and Initiative Pruning)
• Requires: The courage to stop

8. Authorship

Sofía Silva Berenguer. Component of the Decision Framework.

9. Version control

Version 1, April 2026. Last reviewed 7 October 2026.