Assume You Are Involved in Important Decision Making in a Medium-Size

question 15

Essay

Assume you are involved in important decision making in a medium-size organization. Three decisions currently face your organization. One is a problem of integrating the inventory management system with your production system. A second involves the selection of another organization for an acquisition. The third is whether to continue a product line that has been losing market share. Your finance vice president believes the product line should be dropped, while the marketing manager believes that more advertising aimed at a different market will revive sales of the product. Discuss which decision-making approach is likely to be most helpful in analyzing each of these situations.

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Definitions:

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