Research 2025-04-13 Decision-making Neuchâtel

Does a pre-mortem help?

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Does a pre-mortem help? — SHR, Neuchâtel

Does a pre-mortem help? — what studies show, and what they don't.

The research

Study: Mitchell, Russo & Pennington (1989, JBDM)

The limit

Single context; replicate before generalising. (our executive and employee training programmes)

Does a pre-mortem help? — SHR, Neuchâtel — Neuchâtel

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