Dashboards optimise for visibility. Decision intelligence optimises for action. The distinction matters because organizations frequently invest in the first while describing the ambition of the second.
A decision-intelligent system starts with the decision inventory: what is decided, by whom, at what cadence, with what information. Only then does data modelling become tractable.
The design test is simple. If a user can look at the output and still not know what to do differently, it is a report.