ABSTRACT

Decision-making in a network is a complex business: There are many players, unstructured problems and shifting dynamics. This demands that the actors in a network develop strategies to come to decision-making. Decision-making in a project has three key characteristics. First, decision-making progresses in a number of logical phases that follow each other in sequence. Second, a project approach sets great store by precision, sharpness, unequivocality and focus. Third, planning is very important. In a project-based approach to decision-making, the first observation will be that there is a problem. A content analysis will enable the problem to be demarcated, which is important: A clear-cut demarcation of a problem helps when finding a solution. Anyone who knows the problem of the other actor and who needs this other actor can try to link his own solution to the other actor’s problem.