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Decision Making
Turning Information into Action

	See Also...
		Strategic Thinking
		Strategic Product Innovation
		e-Strategy Process

Hundreds of decisions, large and small, are made by people through-out your company every day. Many are "good" decisions—they support your company’s strategy effectively. Yet many do not take into account all available information or downstream implications. The objective of DPI’s Decision Making Process is to substantially increase the proportion of good decisions made, thus improving overall performance.

Why do you need a process? Some people know instinctively how to make decisions. But even the best decision-makers are increasingly challenged by these factors:

• The growing onslaught of information on which to base decisions
• The increasing number of decisions
• The emergence of decisions made by "teams"
• The decreasing time to make them

All of this points to the need for a visible, rational, and repeatable approach to solving problems and making decisions.

DPI's Decision Making Process transfers to your people common frameworks or logic paths, into which information can be channelled and evaluated in an objective manner, in order to arrive at the best conclusion.

Our Decision Making Process takes several different forms: Basic Decision Making and Process Improvement. Senior managers make complex decisions that directly affect the success of the strategy such as evaluating an acquisition, selecting a plant site, or purchasing large-scale information systems. We provide logic tools that enable them to systematically consider a wide range of factors, anticipate future implications, and implement with assurance. Risk is reduced and strategic initiatives can be deployed in a far more timely and fiscally sound manner.

"If you're going to solve complex challenges, these processes must be imbedded in your culture. Around here they've become part of the language... We've grown from $100 million to over $300 million and plan to grow to a billion... DPI's concepts are a critical part of that growth."

—Neil McDonough, President, FLEXcon, Inc.

Basic Decision Making. We transfer a set of skills which enables anyone in your organization to analyze problems objectively and arrive at decisions in a rational manner. It combines Decision Analysis, Problem Analysis, and Potential Problem Analysis.

Process Improvement. An extension of DPI's Decision Making, we have developed sophisticated methodologies for improving, re-engineering and re-inventing manufacturing and business processes.

• DPI's Continuous Process Improvement is designed for optimizing manufacturing processes.
• DPI's Business Process Improvement provides the tools for enhancing the flow of information and communication through your organization.

For more information, Contact DPI, fill out our Online Inquiry Form, or call us at 1-800-336-7685.

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