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Decision Timing Mismatch

January 19, 2026 · decisionmanagementcommunity

Decision MakingOptimizationScheduling and Resource AllocationSupply ChainUncertainty

Adam DeJans Jr. shared another experience from the trenches of real-world decision-making. “The model assumes decisions are made at a clean point in time, with clean information. But reality doesn’t work that way. Data arrives late, decisions are staggered, overrides happen mid-cycle, and yesterday’s “final” plan quietly becomes today’s suggestion. If your optimization assumes a single moment of truth, it will always feel brittle in production, no matter how optimal the solution looks on paper.” Link More

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