Strategic Decision Making
A best practice blueprint
Why are targe organisations,
including household name , sometimes accused of 'losing the plot'in their business
strategy?
Why do organisations fail to
exploit new opportunies such as that presented by Dyson's innovative vacuum cleaner
design?
Why were funds poured into
the UK Dome and the City of London Taurus computer project when it was clear that good
money was following bad?
The answers will surprise
you. Using psychological theory, paper and pencil thought problems and well-chosen
quotations from newspaper articles written at the time, the book demonstrates and explains
the causes of these 'strategic blunders'. It also shows how to recognise and avoid your
own organisation making the same mistakes.
Providing clear guidance with
a number of tried and tested methods and techniques, the author shows how organisational
decision making can be improved by avoiding delaying tactics and a 'blame culture' and how
scenario planning can be used to overcome management overconfidence in predicting the
future.
135 pages