Decision-Making and Risk Management in Architecture Work

Finding the right information to make the decision is a constant challenge and typically the party that collects the information and presents the alternatives is different to the actual decision maker. Solution alternatives are evaluated with a certain decision making criteria. In rational decision making, alternatives and their consequences have to be known, decision makers must have a set of preferences to guide decision making, and a decision rule has to be utilized to select a single alternative on the basis of its consequences for the preferences (Shapira 1997).