The Problem
The strategy was fine. The organization couldn’t absorb the plan. No current diligence instrument measures this risk.
Strategy is a structured set of choices over time. Culture is the pattern of repeated decisions. Execution is decisions delivered.
Measure the decision system and you measure everything.
What We Measure
Every organization has a metabolic signature — a measurable pattern in how it makes, executes, and sustains decisions. DecisionDNA reads that signature.
How many meaningful decisions the system produces relative to its capacity.
How long it takes to move from recognition to committed action.
How long decisions stick — and whether the system can renew them.
The resource cost of producing one additional decision.
How accurately the organization chooses the right problems to solve.
How well chosen actions are implemented and sustained.
Performance = Metabolic RateDensity × Velocity × Vitality / Marginal Cost × Decision AccuracySelection × Execution²
Archetypes
High Decision Accuracy
Low
Metabolic
Rate
High
Metabolic
Rate
Low Decision Accuracy
Archetypes are not fixed. Microsoft moved from Constrained Optimizer to Chaotic Churner to Elite Integrator.
Who It's For
Pre-deal diagnostics and portfolio monitoring. Measure whether a target can deliver the IRR before capital commits.
Transformation readiness and performance diagnostics. Know whether your organization can absorb the plan before you launch it.
Front-door diagnostic for client engagements. Ground every advisory relationship in evidence, not intuition.