Decision architecture
Critical infrastructure decisions are hard to reverse, shared across operators, regulators and suppliers, and felt by people who never took them. We are developing decision architecture as a discipline for exactly these conditions.
What it is
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Decision architecture is the study of how decisions are made in critical infrastructure: who makes them, what shapes them, and how their consequences move through connected systems. We treat it as a discipline in its own right, applied to critical infrastructure around the world.
Why critical infrastructure
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Four conditions make critical infrastructure the natural home for decision architecture.
Irreversible decisions
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Consequences borne by people who did not decide
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Decisions shared across operators, regulators and suppliers
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Obligations flowing through the structure
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How it relates to adjacent fields
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Decision architecture draws on, and differs from, several established fields.
Choice architecture
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Decision analysis
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Resilience engineering
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Socio-technical systems
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