Dataleo Insight · 2026-07-14· Network Planning
Network-planning regret needs option design, not another approval loop
Repeatedly reopening network decisions is a symptom of weak option design: the decision did not encode uncertainty, triggers or reversible choices before approval.
Gartner’s survey showing repeated reopening of network-decision approvals points to a deeper planning problem than stakeholder alignment.
The affected decision is how network investments are approved under uncertainty. Value requires pre-defined trigger conditions, option value and scenario thresholds.
The principal failure mode is treating decision regret as a stakeholder-alignment problem when the real issue is that the plan is too rigid for the uncertainty it faces.