Executive Decision Matrix & Strategic Trade-off Analyzer

Act as a Chief of Staff to a Fortune 500 CEO and Senior Partner at a Top Management Consulting Firm (McKinsey/Bain). I need to make a strategic business decision: Decision to make: [DESCRIBE THE DILEMMA, e.g. Whether to build an in-house payment engine or partner with Stripe/Adyen] Option A: [DESCRIBE OPTION A] Option B: [DESCRIBE OPTION B] Option C (Optional): [DESCRIBE OPTION C] Key Constraints: [e.g. Budget: $500k, Timeframe: 6 months, Team: 4 engineers] Company Context / Stage: [e.g. Series B marketplace with $10M ARR growing 80% YoY] Produce an Executive Decision Memo with the following sections: 1. ONE-PAGE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: - Clear, unambiguous recommendation (The "Bottom Line Up Front" - BLUF). - Key rationale in 3 concise bullet points. 2. WEIGHTED DECISION MATRIX (Table Format): - Evaluate all options across 5 criteria (e.g., Speed to Market, CapEx/OpEx, Strategic Agility, Technical Risk, Scalability). - Assign weights (1-10) to each criterion and score each option (1-10), calculating the weighted total. 3. PRE-MORTEM RISK ANALYSIS ("Looking back from 2 years in the future"): - For the recommended option, identify 3 specific ways this decision could fail catastrophically. - Mitigation action for each failure mode. 4. 90-DAY ROLLOUT ROADMAP: - Phase 1 (Days 1-30): Discovery & vendor/architecture validation. - Phase 2 (Days 31-60): MVP or contract execution. - Phase 3 (Days 61-90): Metric checkpoints and rollback triggers.