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Decision Planner is coming to the Microsoft commercial marketplace. Pilot today with the full Enterprise surface; install on your tenant when the listing goes live.
Use Cases
How different teams use Decision Planner
A decision register has roughly the same job whether the team running it is an exec board, a programme office, or a hiring panel. What changes is the language, the categories, and how much process sits around sign-off. The patterns below are grouped by who runs them; the product underneath is the same.
Where the call needs to be defensible months later
Exec teams and strategy functions make decisions that will be questioned again, often by people who were not in the room. Decision Planner gives those decisions a permanent record, complete with the options considered and the rationale at the time.
Executive decision log
The exec team’s running record of strategic calls. Each entry captures who decided, what was chosen, what was rejected, and why. Locked once signed off; revisited on a quarterly cycle.
Strategic planning
OKRs, investment cases, and pivot calls each get a record with options considered and a revisit date. The Quality Dashboard shows the team’s strategic success rate over time.
Where the call needs to be defensible months later
Exec teams and strategy functions make decisions that will be questioned again, often by people who were not in the room. Decision Planner gives those decisions a permanent record, complete with the options considered and the rationale at the time.
Executive decision log
The exec team’s running record of strategic calls. Each entry captures who decided, what was chosen, what was rejected, and why. Locked once signed off; revisited on a quarterly cycle.
Strategic planning
OKRs, investment cases, and pivot calls each get a record with options considered and a revisit date. The Quality Dashboard shows the team’s strategic success rate over time.
What every team gets out of it
The patterns differ on the surface, but the value sits in the same place. Decisions get recorded while the context is still in the room. The reasoning, the alternatives, and the people involved are part of the record from day one. Sign-off is a deliberate act, not a Slack thread. Revisit is on the calendar, not an aspiration. When the next person asks “why did we decide that?”, the answer is one search away.
Decision Planner is a view on top of a SharePoint list. Decisions, sign-offs, and outcomes all sit in that list, under your tenant’s retention and permission rules. Removing the web part doesn’t remove the record.