A one-page memo for putting a decision to leadership, the question, the options weighed, the recommendation, and the risks and trade-offs behind it. This is the Decision Memo Template from the Stratenity Library, a governed consulting deliverable that is already built for you. It gives your team the full working method for decision memo, and it walks through everything from building the evidence base behind the memo to risks, mitigations, and the break conditions. Every asset ships with a worked client example, a clear RACI, defined KPIs, and governance you can defend, so your team adapts it to a live client engagement instead of starting from a blank page.
What this template covers
This is a preview of the full deliverable. Inside the Stratenity Library, this template walks a consultant through the complete method, section by section, with a worked client example threaded throughout.
- Purpose and When to Use a Decision Memo
- Framing the Decision and the Governing Question
- Building the Evidence Base Behind the Memo
- Constructing Honest Options and Trade-offs
- Decision Criteria, Weighting, and Scoring
- The Recommendation and Its Rationale
- Risks, Mitigations, and the Break Conditions
- Cost of Delay and the Timing of the Decision
- Decision Rights and the Approval Path
- The One-Page Discipline and Memo Structure
- Tabling, Deliberation, and Enactment at the Board
- Common Failure Modes of Decision Memos
- The Decision Record, Governance, and the Look-Back
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