K3Cubed Ltd. The Science of Business

Decision making by Design

The Clarity Cube© is a six-stage decision support framework that can be used to support any type of decision you are looking to take. It helps you make the best decision possible by exploring key aspects of the choices you make. Look at it as a way to sense-check or expose insights into the strengths or weaknesses of your choices that could cause impact you, your team or your wider stakeholders either positively or negatively. You are only safe to proceed if you pass through all six of the Clarity Cube’s© gates.

The Clarity Cube© was designed by David Griffiths. It started as a discussion* with one of our clients in the United States about distributed decision-making - basically, how can we get our people making decisions, across sites,  without relying on the traditional hierarchical “chain of command” model or “passing the buck.” More than this, we need a model that works under stress; in other words, it works in the real world.

The problem is that “real world” is becoming increasingly ambiguous - hyper connectivity and hyper-interdependence sending the environment into a constant state of flux. All of our clients were talking about similar things, “how do we do a better job of listening to our customers, solving their problems, anticipating their needs and designing, developing and delivering products or services that satisfy those needs?”

Applying leading edge research from fields such as Business Psychology, Game Theory, Strategic Human Resource Development, Knowledge Management, Complexity and, of course, Decision-Making, David designed a six-stage decision framework that became the Clarity Cube©. 

Using the Clarity Cube© will help you:

• manage risk

• make decisions that align with stakeholder values

• be more successful at making sense of complex environments

• explore the positive and negative consequences of your actions

• understand the long-term significance of your actions

• empower people

• create a safe-to-fail culture

• improve innovation

• heighten employee engagement

• improve knowledge sharing 

Delivery method:

Action-based problem-solving (knowledge Hacking)

Empathy Mapping

Knowledge Cafe style discussion groups

Case studies, with facilitator as a key informant

*This is a highly interactive course and PowerPoint slides are kept to a minimum

Evidence-based models from award winning research and practice conducted by David, supplemented by other evidence-based models from practice. The seminar will involve high levels of learner participation. All content is situated in a real world context and applied against real world problems. The course will also use case examples from various industries to contextualise the tools/frameworks under discussion.