You have taken your decision. Congratulations. Now let me bring you back to where we started. What was one of the main problems with decisions that we never follow up on them? This step of the process, the execution, one doesn't really fall into the decision making itself. But we believe it's very important.

That's why we want to talk about it. In this section, we want to talk about how we act on our decisions. And who wants to look back and summarize the whole process that we've been discussing all through the course. Start your execution immediately. Once you have taken the decision, go ahead and plan how you want to start executing it. plan the small steps but also look for the goals that you want to achieve along the way.

This will keep you focused on the execution and will define the small achievements that will keep you motivated to proceed. do create an initial plan, but don't get too fixed on it. Remember, even with the best decision making process, we still have a lot of uncertainty in current. So we might still need to go back and adapt the original plan in the decision that we have taken. To keep your flexibility use the neater writing process that will enable you to go back and adapt as needed. Include a lot of feedback loops in the process.

Just use the information that you learn along the way to adapt your approach in most cases methods and techniques can be applied to guide you along the way in to help you execute. Also, do not forget to retrospect to inspect what you have learned, and to use it for enhancing your decision making process. You can use a variety of tools here, from a rather scientific approach like lean, plan, do check act process, and a three method to pretty informal team retrospective finishing with decisions that you need to take and act on. Looking back at the entire process, it might be helpful to create some guidelines as to how much time we need to spend in each phase of the process. Usually, our recommendation is to give equal focus The problem and the solution space. Some research shows, though, that most teams spend at most 20% of their time in the problem space, while giving much more priority to the next phases of the process.

As it comes to execution, the execution phase itself might be different in length, based on the specifics of the solution. What we have to ensure, though, is that we ensure enough time to retrospect and bring the learning back into our process so that we can improve that. So let's summarize everything we have discussed throughout the course. One thing that I really would like you to remember about decision making is that it's about finding a sustainable solution for a well defined problem based on problem in the context we might need to apply a different decision making approach from autocratic to collaborative then the decision making process starts in the problem space, and it might be iterative, not a linear one. When it comes to making the decision, we need to define objective criteria and make sure that we explore different options. This is key to finding a good solution.

So, go ahead and practice what you have learned in the course. We wish you good luck and a lot of successful solutions.