Define intended decisions: Before comparing models, which control is missing?
Define the system’s intended decisions, users, and limits before selecting a model.
The question
A retailer has identified users, affected groups, benefits, costs, risks, and governance owners for demand planning. All prerequisites except one are satisfied. Before comparing models, which control is missing?
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- Define intended decisions, users, and operating limits. ✓A clear intended purpose establishes the decisions, users, and boundaries against which candidate models can be evaluated.
- Approve deployment through the enterprise risk committee.Committee approval may support deployment governance, but it cannot substitute for defining the system’s intended purpose.
- Select the highest-accuracy available model.Model selection is premature because accuracy cannot establish suitability without a defined purpose and operating boundaries.
- Document the training-data provenance.Provenance supports later evaluation and accountability, but it does not define what the demand-planning system is intended to do.
The trap
Ask what decision the system supports and where its use must stop. How to remember it
Define the system’s intended decisions, users, and limits before selecting a model.
How many of these would you get right?
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