Business decision-making : how to think better /
Morato, Eduardo A., Jr.
Business decision-making : how to think better / Eduardo A. Morato, Jr. - Quezon City : REX Printing Company, Inc., 2011. - xi, 111 pages ; 23 cm.
Chapter I: The business case -- What is a good business case -- Proponents of a business case and skills required -- Chapter II: The decision making process -- Defining decision objectives -- The nature and intent of decisions -- Creating the conditions for good decision making -- Articulating the benefits of the decision and removing fear of the unknown -- Chapter III: Situation assessment and critical thinking -- Situation assessment -- Critical thinking -- Chapter IV: Framing the decision and systematic thinking -- Zooming in and zooming out -- Techniques in decision framing -- Chapter V: Generating alternative and creative thinking -- Decision facilities for generating alternatives -- Generating alternative -- Creative techniques for generating alternatives -- Chapter VI: Evaluating alternatives and logical structured thinking -- Four steps in evaluating alternatives: structured thinking -- Arguing for or against an alternative: logical evaluation -- Chapter VII: Negative values, uncertainties and potential problems -- Negative values -- Uncertainties -- Potential problems -- Recognizing and accounting for negative values -- Managing uncertainties -- Managing potential problems -- Chapter VIII: Choosing and implementing decisions: sequential thinking and action programming -- Who will implement the decision? -- Staging and phasing the implementation: action programming -- How much resources are needed and how should the resources be raised and deployed -- Communicating the decision and rallying the organization -- Monitoring and evaluating the decision -- Institutionalizing the decision
Business Decision Making is not just about sharpening the manager's tools and techniques in defining, evaluating and making decisions. It is also about stretching the mind to think better. That means being able to tap into he brain's patterns of thought, sequencing of ideas and creation of insights. That means being able to see both the big picture by zooming out and the small picture by zooming in. That means being able to ferret out what is relevant, important, urgent, doable, and big enough to matter. That means being able to imagine many different ways of solving problems, finding opportunities and crafting strategies. That means being able to diverge into countless possibilities but converge into one powerful solution or direction. That means being able to program a series of action steps that would convert ideas into reality.
9789712360688
Decision making.
Business.
Business decision-making : how to think better / Eduardo A. Morato, Jr. - Quezon City : REX Printing Company, Inc., 2011. - xi, 111 pages ; 23 cm.
Chapter I: The business case -- What is a good business case -- Proponents of a business case and skills required -- Chapter II: The decision making process -- Defining decision objectives -- The nature and intent of decisions -- Creating the conditions for good decision making -- Articulating the benefits of the decision and removing fear of the unknown -- Chapter III: Situation assessment and critical thinking -- Situation assessment -- Critical thinking -- Chapter IV: Framing the decision and systematic thinking -- Zooming in and zooming out -- Techniques in decision framing -- Chapter V: Generating alternative and creative thinking -- Decision facilities for generating alternatives -- Generating alternative -- Creative techniques for generating alternatives -- Chapter VI: Evaluating alternatives and logical structured thinking -- Four steps in evaluating alternatives: structured thinking -- Arguing for or against an alternative: logical evaluation -- Chapter VII: Negative values, uncertainties and potential problems -- Negative values -- Uncertainties -- Potential problems -- Recognizing and accounting for negative values -- Managing uncertainties -- Managing potential problems -- Chapter VIII: Choosing and implementing decisions: sequential thinking and action programming -- Who will implement the decision? -- Staging and phasing the implementation: action programming -- How much resources are needed and how should the resources be raised and deployed -- Communicating the decision and rallying the organization -- Monitoring and evaluating the decision -- Institutionalizing the decision
Business Decision Making is not just about sharpening the manager's tools and techniques in defining, evaluating and making decisions. It is also about stretching the mind to think better. That means being able to tap into he brain's patterns of thought, sequencing of ideas and creation of insights. That means being able to see both the big picture by zooming out and the small picture by zooming in. That means being able to ferret out what is relevant, important, urgent, doable, and big enough to matter. That means being able to imagine many different ways of solving problems, finding opportunities and crafting strategies. That means being able to diverge into countless possibilities but converge into one powerful solution or direction. That means being able to program a series of action steps that would convert ideas into reality.
9789712360688
Decision making.
Business.