Decision making

In my current job (as in life) there are lots of decisions that need to be made. Many of these decisions must be made rather quickly and without the supporting information one would desire in order to feel comfortable said decisions. We have used all kinds of tools - flowcharts, analytical hierarchy process, stop-light charts, etc. The problem is that as a vestige of the "quality" movement in the military during the early 1990s, the process seems more important than the decision. If you make a decision withou using a "process" then the decision is considered suspect and you have to go through the motions of an accepted process anyway. Okay, enough of my rant. In the course of researching a process modeling tool called UML (Unified Modeling Language), I came across this flowchart. If only all decisions could be this simple...