Free decision-making templates
A workbook of ready-to-use templates to help you evaluate options and navigate everyday decisions across your organization.
What’s inside
Three decision-making templates, one workbook:
- Pairwise comparison table – rank or choose between several options by comparing them two at a time.
- Pros & cons list – weigh up the reasons for and against a single choice, based on Benjamin Franklin’s classic method.
- Performance matrix – compare several options against several criteria at once, then trade off the differences.
Each template includes step-by-step instructions and a worked example, alongside a blank version to fill in with your own decision.
New to decision-making methods?
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When a decision needs more than a spreadsheet
The three methods above are a great place to start, but they can only take you so far as a decision grows in size and complexity. 1000minds decision-making software is designed for decisions based on multiple criteria and involving potentially many decision-makers and stakeholders, for one-off or repeated applications. It is particularly useful when a decision is too complex or important to rely on intuition or simple Excel-based methods.
