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One thing technology can do to help high-level decision making is support the process of visualising the complex web of arguments bearing on a decision. In board level decision making, information or information-based insights ultimately bear for or against one or more of the available options. The core cognitive task of the board decision maker is not information analysis but the assessment of arguments. These arguments become very complex. The web of arguments is the sieve through which data or information must pass in order to make a difference to the final evaluation of the options. As long as decision makers are struggling to get their minds around the complex web of arguments, the delivery to them of more and better information will be of limited value.