The economics of decision-making
The economics of decision-making is the common thread in Exelvys’s work: the way an organisation turns a signal into action, and the cost of delay when it is slow to act. Two businesses with identical resources do not achieve the same results; what separates them is often the speed and quality of their decisions, a factor of production that is rarely measured.
This topic brings together our detailed analysis of the subject: the correction window, that is, the period in which a decision is still useful before its cost escalates; the process floor, below which an organisation can no longer decide quickly; and decision architecture, which determines who decides, on what, and at what pace. It also includes readings of economic news through the same lens: behind a figure or a public debate, what is the real decision at stake, and who bears the cost of the delay.
The articles are signed and sourced, and written for chief executives who want a framework for thinking through their choices rather than one more opinion. This is the firm’s particular discipline: treating decision speed as a resource that can be measured, protected and developed.
A confidential sparring partner for chief executives
What it is, and what it is not
11 July 2026
A chief executive’s sparring partner is neither a coach nor a consultant: it is a peer who tests your decisions, in complete confidence.
The correction window
The cost of delay that no one budgets for
9 July 2026
The Meadows model measures the gap between the signal received and the decision taken. Fifty years on, AI widens that gap as much as it narrows it.
