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What is Strategic Decision-Making?

10/21/2022

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what is strategic decision -making
When you're in charge of making decisions for your business, you need to think strategically and act accordingly. 

Strategic decision-making requires improvised business strategies and collective strategies to ensure the success of a business. It also requires the consideration of corporate inflection points and cross-business synergies. Listed below are some tips to help you make the best decisions for your business. Hopefully, you'll find these tips helpful.

Plan for change
Strategic decision-making is a process of laying out an overall direction based on a larger vision and long-term goals. By identifying big-picture aims, you'll be able to align short-term plans with your mission and vision. When you map out the strategic path, you'll have quantifiable milestones to measure and track against the overall vision. Then you can make short-term decisions to achieve these milestones.

A key part of strategic decision-making is making sure everyone is involved. While some participation in strategic decision-making may be explicit and voluntary, others may not feel included or have any real influence. But, regardless of how much participation you want to involve in your plan, it will be crucial to determine key performance indicators for your company and set priorities that are consistent with these objectives.

Plan for risk
Organizations must be agile to respond to the changing business environment and planning for risk is a crucial part of this process. In an era of regulatory change, economic volatility, and digital disruption, risk control must be embedded into strategic decision-making. This enables business leaders to plan for risk, improve the agility of their business decisions, and create a culture of risk management. They can assess strategic implications and plan for different types of risks.

Before implementing any strategy or risk management process, it's important to define the objectives. Once these are determined, a risk management group should develop a consensus view of the risks to be managed and record this view on a risk map. Identifying key risks and the associated action plans, if any, will ensure that the strategic decision is properly implemented. Once this is complete, the group can designate an "owner" for each major risk.
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Listen to options
While many believe that major strategic decisions take place in environments with high validation, a published paper on RPD decision model suggests that most decisions do not take place in such a high-validity environment. Instead, executives follow their intuitions and run mental simulations to explore various options. It is an effective way to gain insight into what you really want. This approach of decision-making can be highly effective in many situations especially during a crisis or when data for decision-making is insufficient.
How fast a decision is made and how good is that decision determines how far the business will thrive.
Checkout- Top Ten Strategic Decision-Making Tools for Operational Excellence

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  4. Top Ten Strategic Decision-Making Tools for Operational Excellence


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