# 🧭 Deciding - navigating ambiguity and setting direction
The essence of the ***Deciding*** talent is about ***making sense of complexity, setting direction, prioritising what matters***.
**Focus**: strategy, alignment, prioritisation, sense-making
When done in isolation, you get ***insight but no traction — strategy without delivery***.
This is why we blend [[🧭 Deciding]] with [[⚙️ Executing]] and [[🤝 Relating]].
Competencies in this domain are:
- [[Portfolio Governance & Investment Decisioning]]
- [[Risk Intelligence & Adaptive Planning]]
- [[Strategic Alignment & Roadmapping]]
**These mirror PMO / Portfolio disciplines**: strategic alignment, benefits management, risk and assurance.
[[Jobs To Be Done|Jobs to be done]] in this domain include:
- [[Balance short-term delivery with long-term capability building]].
- [[Define and drive an enterprise-wide transformation strategy]]
- [[Govern large-scale multi-workstream programmes for quality, time, budget]].
- [[Secure funding and business-case approval]].
- [[Simplify governance and decision flows]].
- [[Translate business goals into technology enablement]].
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