Introduction to Decision Intelligence

A course from Quantellia, taught by the co-founder of OpenDI

Better intelligence doesn’t automatically create better decisions.

Organizations now have more data, analytics, and AI than ever before. But are they really making better decisions, leading to better outcomes?

Many still struggle with the same core problem: how to connect actions to outcomes in complex situations.

The Introduction to Decision Intelligence course teaches you how.

It helps technology teams communicate better with the business, map important decisions, understand consequences, think more strategically, align stakeholders, and see where data, AI, evidence, and human judgment can improve outcomes.

Do any of these situations sound familiar?

• Do teams struggle to explain how their actions actually influence outcomes?
• Do important decisions rely on assumptions that are rarely made explicit?
• Do different stakeholders have competing views of how a decision should work?
• Are you trying to connect data or AI initiatives to actual decision processes?
• Do you work with organizations that need a clearer way to analyze and improve decisions?
• Would it help to map and analyze complex decisions more clearly?

If these questions resonate with you, then Decision Intelligence can help.

Decision Intelligence helps organizations understand and improve their most important decisions.

Decision Intelligence provides a practical method for mapping how actions influence outcomes in important organizational decisions. Teams use it to clarify complex decisions, align across stakeholders, integrate organizational silos, and improve how decisions are made.

For organizations using data and AI, the same models can also serve as a bridge to analytics, simulation, digital twins, and automated decision support.

The course is especially useful for analytics practitioners, data and AI practitioners, consultants, and team leaders who want a practical method for improving important decisions.

Introduction to Decision Intelligence

This Course Contains

• Recorded video lessons from Dr. Lorien Pratt ($1,997 Value)
• Access to the online DI video library, including DI success case studies ($499 Value)
• Access to step-by-step process instructions, templates, and worksheets: your “DI practice in a box” ($1,997 Value)
• Homework Assignments (which are optional) to expand your DI knowledge

What You Will Gain from DI

• Improve decision practices across the organization by making decision models visible, reviewable, and continuously improvable over time.
• Strengthen collaboration between analytics teams and business leaders by giving them a shared framework and language for discussing decisions, assumptions, and outcomes.
• Reveal hidden assumptions, silo conflicts, and misaligned incentives that often undermine decision effectiveness across teams and functions.
• Accelerate time-to-value for data and analytics initiatives by improving decisions one at a time rather than attempting large “boil-the-ocean” transformations.

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• Technology and analytics leaders – Ensure data and AI initiatives connect to real organizational decisions and measurable outcomes.
• Business Intelligence / reporting professionals – DI moves you into the future of the profession, with a systematic way to communicate with your customers so you can provide substantially greater value.
• Data scientists and ML practitioners – Move beyond model performance toward designing systems that improve decisions.
• Consultants and advisors – Use a structured framework for helping organizations analyze decisions and align stakeholders.
• Organizational and transformation leaders – Build stronger decision capabilities across teams and functions to navigate increasing complexity. Strategic, operational, tactical.
• Strategy, policy, and operations leaders – Clarify how actions influence outcomes and align stakeholders around important decisions.
• Enterprise architects – Map decision chains connecting data, actions, and outcomes across systems and organizations.

Go beyond course completion and demonstrate your ability to apply Decision Intelligence to real-world decisions. Through expert-reviewed assignments and a capstone assessment, you’ll build and validate practical DI skills, receive personalized feedback, and demonstrate your ability to model complex decisions using well-formed causal decision diagrams.

Most learners complete the certification alongside IDI, applying each concept in practice as they progress through the course. This integrated approach helps reinforce learning while allowing you to complete certification requirements incrementally rather than after the course ends.

Upon successful completion, you’ll earn the Certified DI Analyst credential—a permanent, verifiable digital badge that showcases your expertise to employers, clients, colleagues, and professional networks. This credential proves not just that you’ve completed a course, but that you can apply Decision Intelligence methods in practice.

The Introduction to Decision Intelligence course gives you a “DI practice in a box”. A step-by-step, hands-on method that has been proven in dozens of organizations worldwide.

For many learners, IDI is the starting point for applying Decision Intelligence to their decision, team, or organizational initiative.

IDI is the self-paced entry point into Decision Intelligence.
If you want live instruction, feedback, and peer interaction, see Getting Started with Decision Intelligence (GSWDI).

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Map complex organizational decisions using causal decision diagrams (CDD) so that assumptions, actions, and outcomes become explicit and discussable.
• Identify where data, analytics, or AI can meaningfully improve decision outcomes, focusing technology investments on decisions where they can deliver real value.
• Reveal hidden assumptions, silo conflicts, and misaligned incentives that often undermine decision effectiveness across teams and functions.
• Clarify desired outcomes rather than optimizing intermediate metrics, helping organizations align decisions around what actually matters.
• Improve decision practices across the organization by making decision models visible, reviewable, and continuously improvable over time.
• Accelerate time-to-value for data and analytics initiatives by improving decisions one at a time rather than attempting large “boil-the-ocean” transformations.
• Strengthen collaboration between analytics teams and business leaders by giving them a shared framework and language for discussing decisions, assumptions, and outcomes.
• Create decision models that can be tested, refined, and reused, supporting continuous organizational learning and better decision outcomes.

Need team training or organizational support? Contact us about group enrollment or broader DI initiatives.

Introduction to Decision Intelligence

This Course Contains

• Recorded video lessons from Dr. Lorien Pratt ($1,997 Value)
• Access to the online DI video library, including DI success case studies ($499 Value)
• Access to step-by-step process instructions, templates, and worksheets: your “DI practice in a box” ($1,997 Value)
• Homework Assignments (which are optional) to expand your DI knowledge

What You Will Gain from DI

• Improve decision practices across the organization by making decision models visible, reviewable, and continuously improvable over time.
• Strengthen collaboration between analytics teams and business leaders by giving them a shared framework and language for discussing decisions, assumptions, and outcomes.
• Reveal hidden assumptions, silo conflicts, and misaligned incentives that often undermine decision effectiveness across teams and functions.
• Accelerate time-to-value for data and analytics initiatives by improving decisions one at a time rather than attempting large “boil-the-ocean” transformations.

Sign me up!

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee!

I know that I have a 30-day money back guarantee: I will have full access to all course materials, and if I am not fully satisfied within 30 days of payment, I can request my payment back in full.

Go beyond course completion and demonstrate your ability to apply Decision Intelligence to real-world decisions. Through expert-reviewed assignments and a capstone assessment, you’ll build and validate practical DI skills, receive personalized feedback, and demonstrate your ability to model complex decisions using well-formed causal decision diagrams.

Most learners complete the certification alongside IDI, applying each concept in practice as they progress through the course. This integrated approach helps reinforce learning while allowing you to complete certification requirements incrementally rather than after the course ends.

Upon successful completion, you’ll earn the Certified DI Analyst credential—a permanent, verifiable digital badge that showcases your expertise to employers, clients, colleagues, and professional networks. This credential proves not just that you’ve completed a course, but that you can apply Decision Intelligence methods in practice.

“Before taking this course, my analytics team wasn’t giving me data in the form that I needed to make good decisions. I would pore over their charts and graphs, and slice and dice the data in their tools, but when it came down to actually making a decision, it was often a matter of politics more than anything else. Now I know how to talk to them: in terms of outcomes I wish to achieve and actions I have to choose.”

Former Student

• Part A: Motivation and Orientation
  • Week 1: Introductions to fellow DI leaders. Why is DI important? Five perspectives. Course overview, components, and goals
• Part B: Hands-on decision mapping and modeling: best practices, classic mistakes
  • Week 2: Outcomes
  • Week 3: Levers, Choices, and Actions
  • Week 4: Intermediates and Dependencies 
  • Week 5: Externals and Augmentation Part 1: Connecting analytics, data, machine learning, and other assets to decisions
  • Week 6: Externals and Augmentation Part 2: Connecting analytics, data, machine learning, assumptions, constraints, and other assets to decisions
• Part C: What’s next
  • Week 7: Maximizing return on investment (ROI: financial and more) from your investments in DI, AI, data, and analytics
  • Week 8: DI in your organization: what problems does it solve, how can you introduce DI effectively, and how do you know if a problem is a good fit for DI? How can you overcome organizational barriers?

This is a self-paced, pre-recorded course. In each week, you’ll watch videos teaching the course material, take quizzes to test your understanding, and practice with optional in-depth homework, which you can compare to sample answers.

• Recorded video lessons from Dr. Lorien Pratt ($1,997 Value)
• Access to the online DI video library, including DI success case studies ($499 Value)
• Access to step-by-step process instructions, templates, and worksheets: your “DI practice in a box” ($1,997 Value)
• That’s a total value of $4,493 for the low price of $498
• Certificate of completion

“Gartner predicts that in the next two years, a third of large organizations will be using decision intelligence for structured decision-making, to improve competitive advantage.”

The Gartner Group

Looking beyond individual learning? Email us about team training, group enrollment, or broader Decision Intelligence initiatives.

Introduction to Decision Intelligence

This Course Contains

• Recorded video lessons from Dr. Lorien Pratt ($1,997 Value)
• Access to the online DI video library, including DI success case studies ($499 Value)
• Access to step-by-step process instructions, templates, and worksheets: your “DI practice in a box” ($1,997 Value)
• Homework Assignments (which are optional) to expand your DI knowledge

What You Will Gain from DI

• Improve decision practices across the organization by making decision models visible, reviewable, and continuously improvable over time.
• Strengthen collaboration between analytics teams and business leaders by giving them a shared framework and language for discussing decisions, assumptions, and outcomes.
• Reveal hidden assumptions, silo conflicts, and misaligned incentives that often undermine decision effectiveness across teams and functions.
• Accelerate time-to-value for data and analytics initiatives by improving decisions one at a time rather than attempting large “boil-the-ocean” transformations.

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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee!

I know that I have a 30-day money back guarantee: I will have full access to all course materials, and if I am not fully satisfied within 30 days of payment, I can request my payment back in full.

More of what you’ll learn. You’ll be able to:

• Structure decision conversations around desired outcomes (financial and / or non-financial) and actions to achieve them.
• Understand how a good decision in one part of your organization can create problems for others (the “whack-a-mole” effect), and how to fix this.
• Understand what to do when institutional knowledge from experienced professionals is partially or wholly no longer relevant because your situation has changed.
• Understand how to combine human creativitity and human intuition with the power of AI and data.
• Find simplicity and order amongst the confusion of complex decisions
• Use state-of-the-art collaborative tools to map AI, knowledge, data, and more into decisions.
• Provide value to your data management projects by guiding them towards the 10% of data that has 90% of the value.
• Identify integrations between organizational silos.
• Earn greater trust and credibility for your team.
• Learn how LLMs and DI work together to provide massive value (DI overcomes LLM hallucination; LLMs give a user interface to analytics)
• Use LLMs as an advisor to decision making
  • Learn how LLMs can help to find decision elements
  • Discover DI prompt engineering’s true value for LLMS
• Learn how decision models connect LLM deployments to business value
  • LLMs are reasoning elements in the path from actions to outcomes
  • Agentic AI goes beyond text to taking actions in the non-digital world
• Understand how decision intelligence is applied causal reasoning
• Understand how decision intelligence is the “killer app” for agentic AI

“CDDs have changed the way I think about all decisions in life. I would definitely recommend this course!”

Former Student

Vint Cerf, “Father of the Internet”

Writing about Link: How Decision Intelligence connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World, upon which this course is partly based, Vint Cerf says, “Link is an exercise in abstraction, causality, and modeling. It is about discovering and making visible interdependencies in complex systems. …You won’t regret reading this book.“

Introduction to Decision Intelligence

This Course Contains

• Recorded video lessons from Dr. Lorien Pratt ($1,997 Value)
• Access to the online DI video library, including DI success case studies ($499 Value)
• Access to step-by-step process instructions, templates, and worksheets: your “DI practice in a box” ($1,997 Value)
• Homework Assignments (which are optional) to expand your DI knowledge

What You Will Gain from DI

• Improve decision practices across the organization by making decision models visible, reviewable, and continuously improvable over time.
• Strengthen collaboration between analytics teams and business leaders by giving them a shared framework and language for discussing decisions, assumptions, and outcomes.
• Reveal hidden assumptions, silo conflicts, and misaligned incentives that often undermine decision effectiveness across teams and functions.
• Accelerate time-to-value for data and analytics initiatives by improving decisions one at a time rather than attempting large “boil-the-ocean” transformations.

Sign me up!

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee!

I know that I have a 30-day money back guarantee: I will have full access to all course materials, and if I am not fully satisfied within 30 days of payment, I can request my payment back in full.

Show What You Can Do, Not Just What You Completed

Go beyond course completion and demonstrate your ability to apply Decision Intelligence to real-world decisions. Through expert-reviewed assignments and a capstone assessment, you’ll build and validate practical DI skills, receive personalized feedback, and demonstrate your ability to model complex decisions using well-formed causal decision diagrams.

Most learners complete the certification alongside IDI, applying each concept in practice as they progress through the course. This integrated approach helps reinforce learning while allowing you to complete certification requirements incrementally rather than after the course ends.

Upon successful completion, you’ll earn the Certified DI Analyst credential—a permanent, verifiable digital badge that showcases your expertise to employers, clients, colleagues, and professional networks. This credential proves not just that you’ve completed a course, but that you can apply Decision Intelligence methods in practice.

Selected Clients

David L. Roberts, professor of Computer Science, NCSU

“With the proliferation of data, advances in AI algorithms, and new developments in hardware infrastructure, a new era of AI impacting virtually every sector of the economy, politics, and society has arrived. Decision Intelligence (DI) is the emerging practice that delivers on this promise.”

A former college professor and co-inventor of the field of Decision Intelligence, your instructor Dr. Pratt is Quantellia chief scientist; she leads the delivery of DI and ML projects worldwide

The first book on Transfer Learning, an important Machine Learning practice that underlies modern genAI.
Sebastian Thrun and Lorien Pratt

L. Y. Pratt and N. E. Malcolm, O’Reilly

Lorien Pratt, Emerald

Sample Lesson

“I think Lorien and Nadine were amazing instructors. The little stories they shared outside of the course, about the companies adopting DI were very interesting.”

Former Student

Looking beyond individual learning? Email us about team training, group enrollment, or broader Decision Intelligence initiatives.

Introduction to Decision Intelligence

This Course Contains

• Recorded video lessons from Dr. Lorien Pratt ($1,997 Value)
• Access to the online DI video library, including DI success case studies ($499 Value)
• Access to step-by-step process instructions, templates, and worksheets: your “DI practice in a box” ($1,997 Value)
• Homework Assignments (which are optional) to expand your DI knowledge

What You Will Gain from DI

• Improve decision practices across the organization by making decision models visible, reviewable, and continuously improvable over time.
• Strengthen collaboration between analytics teams and business leaders by giving them a shared framework and language for discussing decisions, assumptions, and outcomes.
• Reveal hidden assumptions, silo conflicts, and misaligned incentives that often undermine decision effectiveness across teams and functions.
• Accelerate time-to-value for data and analytics initiatives by improving decisions one at a time rather than attempting large “boil-the-ocean” transformations.

Sign me up!

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee!

I know that I have a 30-day money back guarantee: I will have full access to all course materials, and if I am not fully satisfied within 30 days of payment, I can request my payment back in full.

Where IDI can lead

IDI and GSWDI are sibling entry points into the broader Decision Intelligence pathway.
Start with IDI or GSWDI → expand into the Decision Intelligence Handbook, World Modeler, join the OpenDI ecosystem, or explore organizational DI initiatives.

Optional next step: Certified DI Analyst Program
IDI learners who want to demonstrate applied capability may later add the Certified DI Analyst Program, which includes hand-graded assignments, capstone review, and a permanent verifiable digital badge for participants who meet the standard. Learn more >>

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