Lead Practitioner

• Effectiveness of application of decision support
• Complexity of the problem
• Planning for implementation of the decision

" Effective in leading team members and decision makers on engagements of high analytical and organizational complexity and uncertainty. Can also guide a team to solution even when there is a lack of clarity on what the frame is."
This includes being able to:

• Challenge both the team and decision makers to ensure they understand the implications of the frame they are setting.
• Be an outstanding facilitator: even in highly charged situations participants should walk away with the feeling that the meeting they have attended was highly productive and have a clear sense of what the next steps are.
• Capture the essence of the problem at hand; anticipate which processes will work best for each situation.
• Help a team in planning for implementation during the process.

• Application of structured analysis
• Understanding of decision analysis, including how the theory fits with the theoretical foundations of other relevant subjects / disciplines e.g. finance, engineering.
• Deriving and interpreting insights from the analysis
• Quality assurance

• Show creativity in design and the ability to identify, find, work with and / or develop advanced techniques.
• Direct and provide quality assurance in analysis of complex problems carried out by a multi-person team, including helping others formulate analyses, do sanity checks, and challenge assumptions (e.g., willing to challenge team members and decision makers to ensure they are making high quality decisions).
• Derive insights, interpret them, and explain the process and results to senior decision makers.

• Integrity of information knowledge
• Clarity of values, tradeoffs, and value metrics

• Identify hidden issues and unclear motivations
• Recognise when information quality is poor or biased, provide trustworthy guidance about why the information is poor and help teams to re-assess or re-calibrate that information
• Provide guidance to resolve complex tradeoffs among values (e.g. financial and non-financial, quantitative and qualitative, direct and indirect)

• Creativity in approaching problems
• Pro-activity in problem solving

   "Develops or inspires teams to develop novel solutions to opportunities."
This includes being able to:

• Develops creative solutions on engagements of high complexity.
• Translate skills into new areas of application outside of own technical and industry background.

• Training and mentoring of others
• Own expertise and experience

"Is keen to improve own and others decision analysis skills."
This includes being able to:

• Train newcomers in the basics of the profession.
• Be open to learning and experimenting with innovations to the tools and process.

• Understanding of project management concepts
• Application of project management concepts

"Can successfully design, supervise, and lead a large project or several small projects concurrently."
This includes being able to:

• Have a deep understanding and experience of project management concepts.
• Earn the trust and loyalty and inspires others to greater performance.

 Same as Practitioner requirement plus evidence of continuing learning. This may be self-study, conference attendance, or additional courses in decision analysis or closely related areas. At least 3 years full-time equivalent experience of applying Decision Analysis
Elected by 3 Lead Practitioners or Fellows, with at least one Fellow, and a customer of their services.