Business Decision Inventory Template
A structured way to catalog the decisions your organization actually makes — so your data strategy gets built around decisions, not dashboards.
Most data strategies skip the decision entirely.
Most data strategies start with data — the sources, the platforms, the pipeline. Few start with the decisions that data is supposed to inform. The result is dashboards nobody opens and models nobody trusts, because they were never built around a real decision in the first place.
No shared list of the decisions that actually matter to the business
Data initiatives get justified by "we might need it" instead of a named decision
Ownership of key decisions is unclear across teams
A ready-to-use inventory, plus the workshop to fill it in.
One editable grid and a short facilitation guide for running the workshop that populates it with your team.
Decision Register
Columns for the decision itself, its owner, how often it's made, and what's at stake.
Data Dependency Map
What data each decision currently relies on — and where that data actually comes from.
Confidence Rating
How much the current process actually trusts the data behind each decision.
Gap Flag
A simple marker for where data is missing, late, or quietly not trusted.
Prioritization Column
A built-in score to rank which decisions are worth fixing first.
| Decision | Owner | Frequency | Data confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing changes | Revenue Ops | Weekly | |
| New market entry | Strategy | Annual | |
| Inventory reorder | Supply Chain | Daily | |
| Headcount planning | Finance | Quarterly |
Built for the people who own this problem
Building or resetting a data strategy around what actually matters to the business.
Who own the decisions the data function is meant to support.
Mapping current-state decision-making as part of a broader change effort.
Using it as a structured first-90-days discovery exercise.
Three steps to put it to work
Gather decision owners
Pull in one representative from each function who actually makes the decisions you're mapping.
Run the workshop
Use the 60-minute guide to populate the inventory together, not in isolation.
Rank and share the gaps
Take the top-ranked gaps to leadership as your next data priorities.
Build your decision inventory in one workshop.
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