Your business is a decision-making engine

Fast Company (Nov 21, 2025) "Your business is a decision-making engine" by Christian Jacobsen argues every business is at its core a decision-making engine — strategy, culture and technology are inputs and products and services are outputs, with success determined by how quickly, well and widely the organisation makes and executes decisions. Key tenets: healthy organisations have a clear signal system where anyone can flag "we need a decision here," with explicit owners; speed without rigour is chaos and rigour without speed is bureaucracy, so the best organisations balance both; in the AI era, decision systems are the ultimate competitive advantage; and AI will only make organisations smarter if humans are clear about what decisions need to be made and how. Useful diagnostic for SEA mid-market boards stuck in meeting overload.