id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3543 Analysis paralysis - Wikipedia .html text/html 2055 224 66 Schwartz wrote the article "The Return-on-Investment Concept as a Tool for Decision Making" in Changing Patterns And Concepts In Management stating, "We will do less guessing; avoid the danger of becoming extinct by instinct; and, by the adoption of one uniform evaluation guide, escape succumbing to paralysis by analysis."[8] Igor Ansoff wrote the book Corporate Strategy: An Analytic Approach to Business Policy for Growth and Expansion.[9] He used the phrase "paralysis by analysis" in reference to those who used the approach to excess.[10][11] Ansoff had referenced Schwartz's paper in couple of his papers.[12] However, according to Ram Charan, indecision in businesses is usually the result of not enough people acting or speaking up about the inefficiencies of the company.[16] Analysis paralysis can also arise from extensive experience or expertise, which serves to increase the number of options and considerations that appear at every decision point. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3543.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3543.txt