Failure 07 — No decision resilience scoring before commit
The plan you commit to today is a single best guess. Tomorrow the war room starts.
The plan you commit to today is a single best guess against an uncertain future. The question every CxO should be asking before signing it is: of the commitments I am making today, which ones survive as time unfolds and shocks materialize? Which break, and on what day? In current planning systems, that question is unanswerable — stress-testing happens at the plan level, runs as a separate workstream, and never flows back into the commit logic.
Decision Resilience Scoring answers it commit by commit. The Day-1 decisions — a production allocation, a sourcing split, a JIT-vs-safety lead-time PO, a capacity reservation — each carry a forward score and a named break day. The MIC worked example makes it concrete. A PO release sized at 11-day JIT scope scores 38% resilience; lookahead identifies the break day at Day 12, triggered by a specific iteration cluster (Supplier S2 at P85 lead time AND demand at P75 simultaneously). The same PO at 4-day safety scope scores 96% — same supply chain, different posture on one decision, absorbs the slips through P95 and holds through Day 15.
The 70/30 sourcing split between S2 and S3 scores 91% Day 1, 83% Day 5, 74% Day 9, then 38% Day 12 — a cliff that corresponds to the same named iteration cluster. The planner sees the cliff before commit. The mitigation — shifting the split to 60/40 or 50/50 — is a defensible decision, not a hunch. Every break day is named, every cluster is traceable, every alternative is scored before signature. The war room compresses from "what just happened" to "what should we sign."
You stop signing plans you have not stress-tested. Every commit is scored, every break day named, before the shock arrives.