A Taxonomy for Decisions

November 4th, 2010
by jodi

Tim van Gelder provides a taxonomy for decisions:

  1. Intuitive Decisions
  2. Technical Decisions
  3. Deliberative Decisions
  4. Bureaucratic Decisions

Deliberative and bureaucratic decisions are, I think, the most important for collaborative decision-making. Intuitive decisions, made quickly by an individual, are least important for collaboration. Technical decisions have the most interesting description: they are “made by following some well-defined technical procedure”; arguably they are not decisions.

Can you spot any overlaps or gaps? Discuss at his article.

The argumentation community has given a lot of attention to deliberation; I wonder if that has been influenced by the prevalence of deliberation in decision-making, and the difficulty of formal modelling of bureaucracies.

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