A profile sets parameters. A policy sets intent.
Leadership’s intent, made executable
A planning profile is a screen of switches — lot sizes, horizons, lead-time toggles. A Decision Policy is the executive’s intent made executable, and it governs every recommendation the engine makes.
The profile tells the engine how to run. The policy tells it what good means.
A profile is mechanical and silent about objectives and risk. A Decision Policy carries the things only leadership can set: what value to maximize and at what confidence, which floors to hold and in what share of futures, and how aggressive or protective to be.
- Mechanical switches and parameters
- Per-module, per-team settings
- Asks: how should the run behave?
- Tuned in config, easy to bury
- Silent about objectives and risk
- Objective — what value to maximize, at what percentile
- Constraints — which KPI floors, held in what % of futures
- Risk posture — aggressive vs protective, set explicitly
- Churn, surcharge and reschedule tolerances
- One governing intent every recommendation obeys
A floor you hold with stated confidence.
A service target stops being a single number and becomes a target held at a stated confidence — the second number is the risk posture. It is a dial leadership sets and defends, not a parameter buried in config. Raise it: safer, costlier. Lower it: leaner, more exposed.
Optimize toward the median outcome once the floor is safe — or shift the posture to protect the unlucky tail when the downside must be defended.
Hold the service level at the stated confidence — breached in only a small share of futures. The confidence is the posture: safer and costlier, or leaner and more exposed.
One governing intent every recommendation obeys.
The Decision Policy is authored, versioned and owned by leadership — not negotiated in meetings or hidden in spreadsheets. Both engines obey it: Risk Diagnostics maps the spectrum under one fixed posture, and Resilience Optimization commits the plan that satisfies it. When the world moves, the policy holds — because it was written to anticipate the move.