Volkswagen Harvard Case

An example of a decision that did not bring expected benefits to an organization.
Some organizations hold the notion that their decisions, even though it is against popular opinion, and taking in secret would never come to the public. However, in the world of advanced technology, nothing is secret anymore. If organizations involved their employees in the decision-making process, that will often lead to strategic decisions that precipitate maximum benefits to organizations. However, when the reverse is the case, and certain personality influences the organization’s decision-making, that organization will definitely make decisions that would not bring expected benefits. Often time, such decisions would lead to scandal; decline in market shares and financial incapacitation. One organization that was involved in decisions that did not …show more content…
First, applying the Delphi Analysis also called the Delphi foresight, the organization, in my perspective, would have increased the technological aspect of its production. The way to implement this is by producing cars that are fuel efficient. Using its corporate foresight to understand how to break through the North American market would have been an effective alternative. This decision would have brought tremendous benefits to the company and its numerous customers. Some of the possible positive outcomes of such a foresight would have been (1) a complete and systematic increase in market share. Volkswagen would have had more countries requesting a distribution center for its product because of the effectiveness of the decision. (2) There would not have been a recall of over 11 million of vehicles that crippled its financial resources. (3) The company would have possibly dominated and maintained a competitive advantage in the industries. All these are possible outcomes that the new decision-making process would have