Recommendation
A proposed course of action offered by an advisor to a decision-maker. A recommendation is high-quality information, not a decision, until a named decision-maker commits to it and owns the consequences. A strong advisor makes a recommendation ownable by stating what they would do, naming the standard, surfacing the downside, and marking the ownership boundary.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A proposed course of action offered by an advisor to a decision-maker. A recommendation is high-quality information, not a decision, until a named decision-maker commits to it and owns the consequences. A strong advisor makes a recommendation ownable by stating what they would do, naming the standard, surfacing the downside, and marking the ownership boundary.
A specific, addressed, actionable proposal in a report, tied to a named finding and directed at a specific party positioned to act on it. A recommendation with no traceable finding behind it is unearned by the report's evidence.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Why decisions, not information, will make you the expert · Taking Command, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.