How to use this document
Awaiting source text
This section is a heading in the source handbook with no text beneath it yet. Nothing has been written here in its place.
In the meantime
The handbook is organised so that each chapter answers a different kind of question.
| If you want to | Start at |
|---|---|
| Understand what the DSP is and why it exists | Decision support process |
| Know what a module or a process actually is | Decision support elements |
| Look up one module in detail | Technical modules |
| Follow a decision stage step by step | Technical processes |
| See how a full cycle runs, and how modelling feeds it | Decision support cycle |
Each technical module is documented to the same shape: purpose, methods, tools, inputs, outputs and dependencies. Each technical process follows its own consistent shape: the question it answers, the steps, the engagement it needs, its iterative loops, and the output schema it hands to the next process. Once you have read one of each, the rest are quick to navigate.
What this page should cover
Guidance on reading paths for different roles, and on how far through the process an organisation needs to go for different classes of decision.