Frame the business question.
Name the friction or decision, who owns it and what a useful change would look like.
The NAVE approach
Direction before tools.
Evidence before certainty.
Start with a business question. Work through the context, the alternatives and the value. Keep the decision with the owner.
Select purposeful context.
Bring together authorised information. Identify gaps, conflicting evidence and the limits of what is known.
Challenge the options.
Question assumptions, consider alternatives and test downside. AI supports the challenge; the owner decides.
Build the Value Case.
Compare potential value with implementation cost, ongoing effort, feasibility and confidence.
Choose a controlled action.
Set responsibilities, permissions, review, fallback and a stop condition. Scope delivery separately.
Return to the evidence.
Review what happened against the baseline. Continue, adapt, seek specialist advice, defer or stop.
The Decision Challenger
A method for
stronger questions.
What are we assuming? What is missing? What would change our mind?
The Decision Challenger is a method for testing context, alternatives and downside. It helps an owner question AI outputs and their own assumptions. It does not make the decision or identify every risk.
Working document / 01
From friction to action.
Where could better information improve proposal follow-up?
01
Understand the friction
Define
02
Establish the value to test
Question
03
Choose one controlled step
Review
Illustrative example · Not a client result
Owner decides ↗
One shared Value Case
Make the assumptions
visible.
A baseline. A cost. A measure.
A reason to continue—or stop.
Released time is not automatically a cash saving. Additional revenue is not the same as profit. Useful advice makes those distinctions and gives uncertainty a place in the decision.
Evidence deepens with the engagement, from a rough Orientation hypothesis to measured results after implementation.
The Value Case
Better follow-up.
A case to examine.
- Business friction
- Proposals lose momentum
- Current baseline
- To establish
- Value to test
- Response time & owner effort
- Cost & confidence
- To establish before a pilot
- Human control
- Review before sending
- Review point
- After a controlled 30-day test
Illustrative example — not a client result.
Establish task frequency, effort and evidence before estimating a return. Compare possible value with implementation and review costs. Name the human reviewer, information boundaries, fallback and review date.
Owner choice
The next step
belongs to you.
A portable roadmap gives you options.
Implement with your own team, NAVE or another provider. Sometimes the most useful action is a manual process improvement. Sometimes a specialist is needed. Sometimes the evidence says wait.
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