Making Effective Decisions Flashcards
What was the situation/task for Making Effective Decisions?
ISCF strategy group requested research on how place-aware UKRI grant funding was to-date.
Findings were to be presented in a week and feed into the levelling-up narrative.
As the analytical lead, what were the two main tasks?
Decide what data was most relevant.
Decide how to present findings effectively.
How did you assess what data was most important?
Organised a meeting with policy colleagues.
What information did you decide to present?
We looked at UKRI grant data, so:
The volume and value of UKRI grants per-NUTS2 region and per-ISCF challenge.
How did you streamline the decisions on what data to present?
Applied a RAG system to the available data and ideas with the following criteria:
Ease of analysis,
Information impact.
What did you consider when presenting the data?
The audience was non-technical
Data was geographic
How did you present the data?
Used R to create choropleth maps as 2D heat-maps.
Why did you present the data the way you did?
It quickly communicated findings in an engaging manner.
Avoided overused chart types.
What was the result?
Presentation was successful,
Led to discussion on brilliance-led funding model may prioritise larger recipients.
A “mini-wave” funding model was posed for a potential Wave 4.
