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Rationale Model of Decision Making
and Benfits
1 Identify Problem
2 Generate alternative solutions
3 select solutions
4 implement/evaluate solutions
Better quality decisions, makes the reasoning prominent, discourages personal advancment etc.
scenario technique
Speculative forecast tool for identifying future states, givena certain set of environmental conditions
Nonrational Models of Decision Making
Explain how decisions are actually made.
Simon's Normative Model
Garbage can model
Simon's Normative Model: Bounded rationality
Satisficing
Decision makers are restricted/bounded by various constraints when making a decision.
S: Choosing a solution that's "good enough"
Garbage Can Model
and Practical implications
decisions result from a complex mix of problems, solutions, participants, and choice opportunities

1presence of opportunity
2 political motives
3 Sensitive to current load
4 relative importance
Judgmental Heuristics
rules of thumb or shortcuts people use to reduce information processing demands
Availability Heuristic,
base decision on information available in memory
Representative Heuristic
occurs when people estimate probability of and event (higher people from same college b/c last 2 were good)
Confirmation Bias
Subconsciously decide something and only seek info to support decision and ignore others
Anchoring Bias
Decision is influenced by information received about the decision
Overconfidence Bias
tendency to be over confident about stuff
Hindsight Bias
knowledge of an outcome influence beliefs about the probability the we could have predicted the outcome earlier
Framing Bias
consider risks about gains differently than risks about losses
Escalation of Commitment Bias
stick to an ineffective course of action when it is unlikely the bad situation can be reversed
Model of Intuition Types and sources
Hulistic Hunches- subconcious use of information stored in memory
Automated experiences- previously learned info

Expertise
Feelings
Types of Creativity
Creation
Synthesis
Modification
5 Stages of creative process
1 preparation
2 concentration
3 incubation
4 illumination
5 verification
Group decision making should be used if
1 additional info would increase decision quality
2 acceptance is important
3 people can be developed through participation
Brainstorming Rules (7)
1 Defer Judgment
2 Build on other's ideas
3 Encourage Wild ones
4 Quantity of Quality
5 Be visual
6 FOCUS
7 One speaker at a time
Nominal Group Technique
Convene
Round Robin of ideas
Criticize/Defend for 30 seconds
Rate
Discus top choices
Delphi Technique
anonymously generate ideas from dispersed experts
questionaires
summarize/report

usually through internet/email
Computer Aided Decision Making techniques
chauffer driven- WWTBM
group driven- emails, ect.
Common Mistakes in Identifying the problem (4)
1 Involving wrong people/ not enough
2 Framing the problem incorrectly
3 Failure to identify relationships in problems
4 Failure to find all facts
Risk adverse vs. Risk seeking
gains vs losses