Abstract
The Eisenhower Decision Matrix, credited to the task management system of US President Dwight Eisenhower, is a graphical diagram used in strategy and planning for tasks. This matrix, however, only provides four types of priorities. We identify a collection of scenarios in which the traditional matrix provides misleading suggestions and propose an extension to the matrix that addresses the misleading suggestions illustrated with examples and implementation in a web application.
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The diagram is named in honor of the coauthor who’s upcoming move inspired the extension of the diagram.
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The app is hosted at https://sungdiagram.herokuapp.com/. The code is available at https://github.com/TostySSB/sungdiagram and is released under the MIT license.
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We thank Luke Freeman and Chris Province for their thoughtful discussions. We also thank our friends and family who have provided inspiration for the numerous examples scattered throughout this paper.
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Bratterud, H., Burgess, M., Fasy, B.T., Millman, D.L., Oster, T., Sung, E.(. (2020). The Sung Diagram: Revitalizing the Eisenhower Matrix. In: Pietarinen, AV., Chapman, P., Bosveld-de Smet, L., Giardino, V., Corter, J., Linker, S. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54249-8_43
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