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CONTENTS OF 48-PAGE BOOKLET:
  •  The Big Picture
  •  Problem Solving and Decision Making
  •  The Decision Making Process
  •  System of Decision Making and Problem Solving
  •  Intuitive Decision Making
  •  Short Formula for Decision Making
  •  Full Model and Formula
  •  Specific Individual “Sciences”


    • STAGES AS APPLIED TO DECISION MAKING:
    1. Curious Observation
    2. Is There a Problem?
    3. Goals and Planning
    4. Search, Explore and Gather the Evidence
    5. Generate Creative & Logical Alternative Solutions
    6. Evaluate the Evidence
    7. Make the Educated Guess (Hypothesis)
    8. Challenge the Hypothesis
    9. Reach a Conclusion
    10. Suspend Judgment
    11. Take Action

    SUPPORTING INGREDIENTS:
    12. Creative, Non-Logical, Logical & Technical Methods
    13. Procedural Principles & Theories
    14. Attributes & Thinking Skills

  •  Group or Team Decision Making
  •  Management Decision Making Technique
  •  Managerial Decision Making
  •  Behavior Decision Making Theory
  •  Accounting for Risks Involved
  •  Decision Making under Uncertainty, Forecasting and Predicting
  •  Miscellaneous Strategies
  •  Opportunities to Use My Non-copyrighted Material
  •  Bibliography
  •  Your Guide and Worksheet
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    Decision Making Techniques & Strategies


    Checklist for Strategic Decision Making

    Many of these techniques and strategies are mentioned throughout this booklet to increase your decision making skills.. Here is a checklist to help you in effective decision making.

    •   Establish a decision making room complete with computers, books, and files
    •   In strategic decision making, expert advice should often be sought. However, keep the big picture in mind.
    •   Artful delay in making a decision is often beneficial.
    •   Even though you agree with someone, ask disconfirming questions.
    •   Compliment a person on his or her idea, but then suggest another idea.
    •   Problem solving strategies and techniques are also used in decision making as how to make a decision is essentially a problem.
    •   Consensus decision making if often attempted to show unity of thought and action. Use SM-14 in showing how it was arrived at.
    •   If more information is needed, delay the decision.
    •   Rational decision making is essential in solving problems, but you must also think creatively on complex decisions.
    •   In group decision making, give each participant 100 points to assign to alternatives. Total the results.
    •   Anticipate competitors' reactions and check on how fast competition reacts to your decision.
    •   Analyze people's characteristics. Base your strategy on them.
    •   After a group decision session, hold a review with participants on how well it went.
    •   Appoint a sub-group to argue for a particular alternative view.
    •   When there are disagreements, pinpoint their source.
    •   Encourage disagreements at the beginning, since this involves review of ideas.
    •   It is not always win or lose, as there can be compromises of mutually acceptable decisions.
    •   Successful implementation requires adequate involvement and communication.
    •   In writing reports, follow the format of the SM-14 formula.
    •   Read extensively to stimulate your imagination. This is an ever-changing world.
    •   Thinking out loud will often aid your reasoning. Use another individual as a sounding board.
    •   Right before retiring and first thing in the morning are times for ideas and illumination.
    •   Save and review short case histories as aids to your experience base.
    •   Develop tolerance for ambiguity, but learn how to eliminate it.
    •   Improve your ability to think. Read books on the subject.