Withdrawing a decision

Warning

There is no shared understanding of when and if a potential decision should be withdrawn. The following information is offered as guidance. The Decision Pipeline includes a regular update process through which individual products, processes and activities may be updated or identified for improvements.

Note

A decision facilitator stopping a decision makes a valuable contribution to the co-op using its time and resources well.

Decision facilitators may wish to consider the following:

• Whether significant or unanticipated opposition has emerged in the course of shaping the decision that makes it unlikely the decision will pass in its current form. (Either a total withdrawal or a new decision may be appropriate in this case.)

• Whether internal or external circumstances have changed sufficiently to undermine the original logic for the decision.

• Whether the assumptions of the decision hold up after shaping the decision and building supporting information.

• Whether any better ideas have emerged in the course of developing the decision.

• Whether there are more effective uses of the facilitator’s, team’s and Members’ time than pushing through the current decision.