Practical Application and the Emergence of ADM 3.0

Abstract

In this book, we have focused on decision making and intellectual style from four key social science perspectives where there are distinct differences but also overlapping concerns: sociology, management, marketing, and education. These disciplines are hybrids and naturally our discussion has been drawn into other scientific disciplines such as psychology. Our focus on the four disciplines is because they are applied fields that use an accumulation of wisdom continually being advanced. In this chapter, we draw together some of the threads presented in earlier chapters and attempt a further synthesis of adaptive decision making and intellectual style. We review the contribution of these social science areas to the twin notions of decision making and intellectual style. In what follows, we first highlight and extend several aspects already discussed in the first three chapters. Second, we examine the role of decision biases and decision frameworks. Third, we survey the relevance of some recent literature on intuition and its role in decision making. Fourth, we revisit decision making and the importance of intellectual style within the new world and coin the term Adaptive Decision Making 3.0 to mean new and interactive approaches to decision making that incorporate awareness raising of intellectual style usage including deep professional learning at different levels (for example resilience, double-, and triple-loop learning) to heighten our recognition and more effective utilization of decision biases and decision frameworks as well as intuition. The chapter concludes with two case studies on ADM 3.0, one on UNESCO and the other on QF12.