Every organisation depends upon the quality of the decisions its people make. Executive Decision Acceleration (EDA) helps organisations strengthen judgement, improve decision-making and embed the capability to execute better decisions consistently.
Every day, leaders and their people make decisions that influence organisational performance, opportunities, risks and future success.
Some decisions are straightforward. Others involve uncertainty, competing priorities, incomplete information and considerable consequences.
The question is not simply whether an organisation can make good decisions. It is whether it can make consistently better decisions throughout the organisation.
What is Executive Decision Acceleration?
Executive Decision Acceleration (EDA) is an organisational operating system that brings together people, strategic thinking and structured decision-making.
Its purpose is to strengthen organisational capability across judgement, decision-making, execution and learning.
Better Decisions Create Value. Consistently Better Decisions Compound It.
Rather than concentrating exclusively on individual decisions, EDA addresses how organisations develop, apply and sustain effective decision-making practices.
How does Executive Decision Acceleration work?
EDA integrates leadership, strategic thinking and structured decision processes into a coherent organisational capability.
The approach emphasises:
- People: Developing leadership, participation, accountability and organisational learning.
- Strategic thinking: Understanding the organisation’s circumstances, objectives, options and consequences.
- Structured decision-making: Improving the quality and consistency of judgement and decisions.
- Execution: Translating decisions into practical action, review and improvement.
- Embedding capability: Helping the organisation sustain and develop these practices independently.
The objective is not merely to improve one decision. It is to improve how the organisation makes and executes decisions over time.
Installing organisational capability, not dependency
At The Sixsess Consultancy, we approach EDA as a facilitated organisational capability installation.
The organisation’s own people participate in learner-led workshops, apply the methodology to real organisational challenges and progressively take responsibility for its implementation.
Our role is to facilitate, guide, challenge and validate that learning.
This reflects a fundamental principle: learning must be acquired, demonstrated and applied, rather than simply delivered through instruction.
The intended outcome is an organisation that can apply EDA independently, without continuing reliance on external consultants.
Better judgement when decisions matter most
Executive Decision Acceleration draws upon more than five decades of experience in environments where decisions carry real consequences.
The methodology is brought together in Barry Eustance’s published Field Guide, Executive Decision Acceleration – Enhancing Judgement Under Pressure.
For organisations facing a particularly consequential decision, The Sixsess Consultancy can also work directly alongside their leadership teams.
However, the longer-term opportunity is to strengthen the organisation’s own capability to make and execute better decisions consistently.
Explore Executive Decision Acceleration
Better decisions. Better execution. Better outcomes, sooner.
If your organisation wants to strengthen judgement, decision-making and execution, we welcome an exploratory conversation.
Executive Decision Acceleration – Enhancing Judgement Under Pressure – A Field Guide
Amazon EDA Guide:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Decision-Acceleration-Enhancing-Judgement/dp/1066967601
The Sixsess Consultancy:
Barry Eustance:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-eustance/
The Sixsess Consultancy on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sixsess/
Barry Eustance
Founder, The Sixsess Consultancy
Author, Executive Decision Acceleration – Enhancing Judgement Under Pressure
