Need external staff for research and high-level recommendations because there is not enough internal staff time allocated? Have a controversial issue that needs to be explored and resolved without bias? Does your team have an idea that needs to be vetted by an external team?

Decision support includes background research, interviews and facilitated discussions to identify the context of a decision, idea or issue and an outline of the facts, gaps in information, identified risks and opportunities in action to be considered by decision-makers. Decision support memos and reports oftentimes include recommendations for or against a particular decision but may also just present the facts for decision-makers’ consideration.

Good Company’s decision support encourages exploration and discovery on the part of the decision maker; speeds up problem solving and decision-making in an organization; promotes capacity building, learning or training; generates new evidence in support of or against a decision; and reveals new approaches to thinking about an issue or idea.

Highlighted Projects:

Good Company applied our life cycle power-screening tool and decision-making process in the sustainability screening and assessment of a new, local 18 MW biomass power plant to determine if the power generation source would fit the community, environment and sustainability criteria for the Eugene Water & Electric Board’s power portfolio. Our findings were used as board-level due diligence during the pre-negotiation of the contract and for public disclosure of the decision-making process. View Good Company’s final report, Seneca Sustainable Energy Biomass Cogeneration Plant:  Sustainability Assessment of Proposed Power Resource.

Good Company developed a triple bottom line decision-making framework for the Eugene Water & Electric Board and pilot tested the framework on a pending large-scale capital decision:  the move of approximately 275 employees from the existing electric and water operations, warehouse and fleet services sections to a newly built facility. View a description and considerations of the Roosevelt Operation Center project.