The DECIDE Model
The DECIDE Model was choosen as as a good framework suited to the application of Thinking Paradigms to improve thinking quality. This is not simply because it has an excellent acronym, although that is certainly a useful characteristic. (It exploits the Availability Paradigm to make the model more memorable, and hence more useful and compelling.) It also has the merit of being quite simple and practical to use. It does not rely on any complex scientific language or esoteric meta-cognition concepts to understand it.
The DECIDE Model was designed in 2008 by K L Guo at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu to improve medical practioners’ decision making. It is used to make medical practioners deliver good thinking in life and death situations. We have here a developed and adapted DECIDE model to broaden it’s application to include decisions relating relating to solution creation, as well as the ‘diagnose, act, review’ context that inspired its creation. But of course, we kept its excellent name.
