Sixteen real decisions behind Volume II, told from the published record.
Every chapter of Volume II carries an In Practice case: a real organization that took a decision of the chapter's kind, told from its published record. Each case sets out the decision, the method, the result and what it took to make it work, then what Meridian, the book's case company, takes from it and four questions for a board.
The cards give a preview. The full two-page case is in the chapter, after its Worked Example and before its AXIOM Lab.
Futures with Lake Mead below 1,000 feet cut from about 19 to 3 percent
Nearly 40 million Americans rely on the Colorado River for drinking water. Planning to 2060, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the seven Basin States faced four descriptions of the river's future: a century of records, reconstructions spanning nearly 1,250 years, a blend of the two, and 112 climate projections. They relied on none of them alone. Against the observed record, the climate projections raised the 2060 annual bill by $1.1 billion at the low end and $2.3 billion at the high end. How do you plan when you cannot know the odds?
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