Decision Making: Stormcenter A decision is a choice made from among available alternatives. Decision making is the process of identifying and choosing alternative courses of action. This activity is important because managers need to know how to make effective decisions, sometimes quickly. The goal of this activity is to provide you with problem-solving skills when it comes to issues related to decision making. A storm is on track for a possible hit on a major city and the government has set up a command center to monitor it and make decisions. There is some disagreement between government officials on whether or not an evacuation of the city should be ordered. There is limited time to make a decision and things get quite heated at the storm center. How is the team handling the situation? How would you? At the beginning of the video, Ava does not properly follow the third step of the formal decision-making process. What did she do wrong?

The team should take the matter very seriously as the storm effects is unpredictable.

I would take decision to inform the residents of the city about the storm and its intensity. The plans should be made in case if the storm get wild, the relocation can be made with ease.

Ava should discuss all the concerns with the team and she should encourage the team to gather ideas.

Explanation:

The government has the responsibility of the entire city. In case of natural disasters the government is held responsible for not taking the immediate precautionary measures. To avoid the circumstances of heavy disaster in the city, the team should take decisions with and consider all the risks which may affect the city.

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a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.