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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

Designing the Future Today
Customers are constantly rewiring their shopping behavior in response to new technologies, challenging economic realities, and shifting cultural norms. What can companies do today to satisfy the yet-to-be-determined needs of tomorrow’s consumers?
ERP for IT: Ready for Primetime?
With no truly integrated suite of applications to integrate the ad-hoc processes, workarounds, and siloes that define many IT environments today, how can CIOs achieve uniformity, scale, and efficiency?
Does the Open Talent Economy Need a Fence?
These days, the people who do an organization’s work don’t always work for the organization. Is this open relationship good for business? Or would business be wise to keep some boundaries in place?
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?