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Stage 05D

Canonical DECODE stage

Decide the Improvement Path

What level of commitment is justified?

Convert understanding into exactly one legitimate commitment: Improve, Redesign, or Preserve.

Belongs here
  • Improve within current boundaries
  • Redesign beyond current boundaries
  • Preserve when change is not justified
Does not belong here
  • Pilots presented as decisions
  • Vague intentions
  • Additional invented outcomes
  • Execution plans

Visual logic

Make commitment explicit and proportional to understanding.

Input from stage 4DStronger understanding

Common failure modes

Watch for these signals.

  1. 01

    The choice is postponed behind a pilot

  2. 02

    Preserve is treated as failure

  3. 03

    The decision exceeds available understanding

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