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Framing the big decisions

Shrink or grow? Buy or sell? Take a risk or sit tight. You make important decisions like these every day. But it’s important to understand your options – because what you miss could come back to haunt you.

By working through important decisions in a disciplined way, you can increase the chances of making better choices. That’s where the Deloitte Debates come in. The Debates examine today’s pressing issues from many angles. That means you’ll see more options – and get a clearer view of immediate impacts and longer-term consequences.

Check out our most recent Debates below or explore our library of Debates - by issue - on the left. Visit often as new Debates are added often.

More Our Recent Debates

Teaming Up On Fresh Approaches to Today's Challenges
Partnerships between the U.S. government and private sectors were undertaken to achieve large infrastructure projects. Given the increasingly complex nature of our national challenges, has the time come for government and business to team up more often?
ERP Reconsidered: Is Public Cloud the Only Option?
Recent technological improvements have revved up computing power and driven down operating costs. Is it time to take a second look at in-house ERP?
Separate or Equal: Should Environmental and Social Issues Be an Integral Part of Your Business?
A number of leading companies are taking deliberate steps to make environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities an integral part of their business strategy and operations.
Workplace Flexibility—Are We Bending or Breaking?
While businesses struggle to stay competitive in an increasingly difficult environment, employees yearn for work-life balance. Are flexible work arrangements a win-win that serves both interests? Explore the debate.
IPv6: Is it finally time to migrate?
CIOs have been hearing about the importance of adopting IPv6 for so long that some have become desensitized to the issue. Yet, with some parts of the world already running out of available IP addresses, can they continue to put off the migration to IPv6?
The Mobile Revolution: Is Your IT Department up to the Challenge?
As increasingly advanced mobile technologies, sophisticated user expectations, and innovative usages continue to emerge, could utilizing traditional IT approaches – and skill sets – cause companies to miss out on the mobile revolution?
Truth or Dare: How to Manage Global Supply Chain Risks?
Recent major disasters such as Hurricane Sandy and the Japanese tsunami have focused a lot of attention on supply chain risks. The question is how much time and effort should you invest in managing such risks and what's an effective way to do it?
Popping the Question: Is Social Media an Effective Way to Engage Employees?
Social media is a lot of things to a lot of people. But is it a viable tool for employee engagement?
Hitting Back at Hackers: Do Two Wrongs Make a Right?
If your organization is hit by a cyber-attack, turning the matter over to the authorities is the appropriate course of action. But, if you’re able to stop the attack yourself by taking out the hacker’s servers, should you hit back at the hackers?
Does Big Data Still Need the Human Touch?
Visualization offer individuals an analytical window into rapidly expanding Big Data sets. Yet, given that analytics and other automated data management tools can analyze more data efficiently, is human analysis of data still worth the effort?