How does Gregor make decisions?

Gregor Nowak decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is high.

What does Gregor react critically to?

Above all when something touches Gregor’s core concerns: “IT director Berthold blocks an interface for security reasons shortly before the planned rollout, without offering an alternative” and “A supplier delivers an ordered spare part for the new automation station a week late.” The bias that shapes Gregor’s judgment most is “Confirmation bias.”

Gregor Nowak

technical director (production and digitalization), manufacturer of ventilation and air-conditioning units (around 190 employees) · Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Buying Role: Operations Life-World: The Drivers · Success & Pace Decides: rational 45 yrs · Austria

Gregor Nowak is digitalizing a Lower Austrian ventilation and air-conditioning plant down to the last laser marking — and yet keeps a checkered mileage log in his own car, line by line, by hand. As technical director, he wants to see the numbers first for every proposal, in the hall as much as at the kitchen table. Two automation offers sit side by side at his home until he compares them on Monday.

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Tech affinity

In the hall he actively drives digitalization forward — production data capture, laser marking, automation stations — and likes best to test new programs himself, even when hardly anyone in the hall is watching, before he signs off on them. Privately, the same curiosity shows up on a smaller scale: a power meter hangs on his road bike, and he transfers its readings into a spreadsheet of his own, and since spring he's been reading off, via a radio module, how much power the heat pump actually draws, just because the curve appeals to him. Still, a work phone and a plain private smartphone are enough for him; he has never gotten around to getting a smart lighting system.

Defining bias

Once he has a suspected cause for a fault — say, a particular feed station as the bottleneck — he deliberately looks for data that confirms it, and overlooks indications from a completely different section of the line that would fit just as well. He almost always adds extra logging right where he already suspects the error to be.

How he decides

He makes technical decisions based on key figures and takes his time over them before he defends them to management. On personnel questions he relies on his impression from day-to-day collaboration; a reference alone doesn't convince him, which has already cost him one wrong assessment. Once he's made a decision, he defends it stubbornly, even when new numbers speak against it, until someone convinces him with even better numbers.

Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Gregor tick

Openness

54 · medium

Conscientiousness

89 · high

Extraversion

24 · low

Agreeableness

43 · medium

Neuroticism

37 · medium

Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

Confirmation bias high

Zero-risk bias high

IKEA effect medium

Values

Status through ability
A verifiable number settles it
The hall before the brochure
Open-mindedness without any need to show off
A tangible result by evening

Fears

IT director Berthold blocks an interface for security reasons shortly before the planned rollout, without offering an alternative.
A supplier delivers an ordered spare part for the new automation station a week late.
An experienced maintenance technician whom he trained himself accepts an offer from a bigger automation company in Vienna and is gone from one day to the next.
During a test run of the new automated station, a misconfigured safety interlock triggers too late, and a new employee escapes injury only by chance.

Motivations

On the night shift, an employee reports a fault that the new software itself failed to flag.
After a complaint, the supplier sends a technician over on their own initiative, within a few hours, without him having had to ask.

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Gregor at a glance

How does Gregor make decisions?: Gregor Nowak decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is high.
What does Gregor react critically to?: Above all when something touches Gregor’s core concerns: “IT director Berthold blocks an interface for security reasons shortly before the planned rollout, without offering an alternative” and “A supplier delivers an ordered spare part for the new automation station a week late.” The bias that shapes Gregor’s judgment most is “Confirmation bias.”
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What convinces Gregor — and what puts Gregor off

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Convincing

Status through ability · A verifiable number settles it · The hall before the brochure

Off-putting

IT director Berthold blocks an interface for security reasons shortly before the planned rollout, without offering an alternative. · A supplier delivers an ordered spare part for the new automation station a week late.

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What convinces

Status through ability, A verifiable number settles it, The hall before the brochure — that is what Gregor measures an offer against.

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Reservations & concerns

IT director Berthold blocks an interface for security reasons shortly before the planned rollout, without offering an alternative.; A supplier delivers an ordered spare part for the new automation station a week late..

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How Gregor decides

Decides rationally, based on numbers and facts.

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Strongest cognitive bias

Confirmation bias — shapes the judgment.

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