Innovative Decisions, Inc.

IDI is a small veteran-owned business registered as an S-corporation in the State of Virginia. It was founded in 1997 with the purpose of providing world-class decision support to decision makers in government and business.
 
IDI specializes in applied decision analysis, operations research, systems engineering, performance measurement, and group decision conferencing. Our business is a mix of government and commercial clients, including numerous organizations in the national security and law enforcement communities.

IDI can provide your organization with a competitive decision advantage that no one else can match. We currently have the largest decision analysis capability in the country, consisting of 17 senior decision analysts with advanced degrees.  IDI decision analysts average more than 20 years of applied decision analysis experience each.  

IDI has some of the most experienced decision support facilitators in the country, including pioneers the Decision Conferencing concept.  IDI staff members have facilitated more than two thousand decision conferences and are experienced in many decision support tools and groupware.  IDI has established, staffed, and provided technology transfer for decision support centers for numerous agencies.

IDI staff members have been recognized for their work by the professional decision analysis societies:

  • 3 Rist Prizes from the Military Operations Research Society (MORS)
  • 6 Best Decision Analysis Working Group Paper Awards from MORS
  • Runner-up for the Franz Edelman Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
  • Runner-up for the Annual Best Decision Analysis Application Prize (from INFORMS)
  • Technical fellowships from NSA and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

And we preach what we practice.  IDI staff members have published several books on decision analysis and systems engineering and scores of decision analysis articles in refereed journals.