When you have multiple objectives, complex alternatives, and diverse stakeholders, decisions get complicated. People have different perspectives and values, there’s uncertainty around what the future holds, and time is critical. But decisions need to be made, and there are growing expectations for decisions to be not only technically sound, but collaboratively developed and transparent.

Altaviz enables groups to use a structured decision-making approach to clarify values and objectives, co-develop a range of creative alternatives, build a shared understanding of the evidence about their likely consequences, and have productive deliberations about difficult, value-based trade-offs. It’s a process with a long track record of building broad-based support for complex and controversial decisions.

Make no mistake, structured decision making can be complicated, but Altaviz has made everything easier. Leveraging our understanding of how people make decisions with the power of web-based technologies, Altaviz streamlines and seamlessly documents your decision process, letting your team focus on the critical thinking and value-focused conversations that are at the heart of good decision making. It organizes data and input from subject matter experts in a decision-relevant way, so that everyone, regardless of technical capacity, can participate effectively in decision making. Interactive visual summaries let you zoom in and focus on specific details, and then zoom out to get the big picture, ensuring that collaborative decisions are based on a shared understanding of key trade-offs and uncertainties.

Altaviz has been successfully applied across many decision contexts including large infrastructure investments, water and land use planning, endangered species recovery, climate adaptation, and more. Altaviz is a self driven SDM framework, so it’s flexible enough to handle your specific decision context yet structured enough to guide you through best practices for informed and transparent decisions.