Quantitative Methods · Decision Sciences

PreMortem — Fail the Decision Before You Make It

A 15-minute pre-mortem simulation that teaches decision-makers to imagine failure before commitment. Across 3 rounds, learners draft a failure obituary for a real decision, rank failure modes by probability and cost, and convert top risks into concrete adjustments — based on Klein 1998.

3 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español
All simulations Get started
Preview

Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • The decision you are about to make
  • Failure mode 1 — what specifically went wrong?
  • Failure mode 2 — what specifically went wrong?
  • Failure mode 3 — what specifically went wrong?
  • Top risk 1 — early warning signal in the first 90 days
  • Top risk 1 — concrete adjustment you make NOW (dated, specific)
  • Top risk 2 — early warning signal in the first 90 days
  • Top risk 2 — concrete adjustment you make NOW (dated, specific)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Your Inputs
  • Decision Quality Trajectory

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Decision Sciences.

See all Quantitative Methods simulations →

Ready to use PreMortem — Fail the Decision Before You Make It with your students?

Contact us and we'll set you up with a free trial session.

Contact us