1. Pricing decisions Factors to consider when setting prices All profit organizations and many non profit organizations must set prices on their products or services. Simply defined‚ price is the amount of money charged for a product or service. More broadly‚ price is the sum of the values consumers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. A company ’s pricing decisions are affected both by internal company factors and by external environmental factors. These factors
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3 – Decision Analysis 1 Decision analysis is concerned with establishing systematic procedures for making decisions under uncertainty. Knowledge of decision analysis should help analyze a problem in a complicated and uncertain setting‚ to develop alternatives‚ and to identify possible outcomes. The decision maker then selects the alternative that best meets his or her objectives and psychological desires. Decision analysis is important because it provides decision makers with a rational way
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SHORT-RUN TACTICAL DECISIONS The organizations strive to earn short-run profits. In making short-run decisions‚ not all cost and revenue data is relevant. The cost data relevant for decision-making is referred to as relevant costs and that which is not useful for decision-making is non-relevant costs. On the revenue side‚ the only relevant revenue is the incremental & differential revenue. Relevant and Non-Relevant Costs: 1. Future Costs and Sunk Costs (IR): A future cost is that cost yet to be incurred
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1. What is Decision Making? Decision-making is an essential aspect of modern management. It is a primary function of management. A manager’s major job is sound/rational decision-making. He takes hundreds of decisions consciously and subconsciously. Decision-making is the key part of manager’s activities. Decisions are important as they determine both managerial and organizational actions. A decision may be defined as "a course of action which is consciously chosen from among a set of alternatives
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Decision Tree Analysis Choosing Between Options by Projecting Likely Outcomes Decision Trees are useful tools for helping you to choose between several courses of action. They provide a highly effective structure within which you can explore options‚ and investigate the possible outcomes of choosing those options. They also help you to form a balanced picture of the risks and rewards associated with each possible course of action. This makes them particularly useful for choosing between different
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The theory of decision traps outlines the problems managers can face when trying to make a decision for the business. In order to be able to analyse the theory of decision‚ they must first be defined‚ to do this effectively this essay will look at the work of Russo and Schoemaker and other theorist who have researched the traps. This essay will then go on to give real life examples of a decision traps to exemplify them effectively. Making decisions are an everyday occurrence‚ especially in the
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DECISION TREES DECISION Decision trees may be described as the graphic display of the decision-making process. Let us take for example a situation where one must decide whether to go to a movie house or to stay at home and watch TV or a video tape. State of nature node Branches Good movie Decision node Movies Bad Movie Good program TV New program or cassette Poor program Rerun
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Decision Analysis Example Consider the following problem with three decision alternatives and three states of nature with the following payoff table representing profits: States of Nature s1 s2 s3 d1 4 4 Decisions d2 0 3 d3 1 5 Which decision do you choose? -2 -1 -3 Problem Formulation • A decision problem is characterized by decision alternatives‚ states of nature‚ and resulting payoffs. • The decision alternatives are the different possible strategies the decision maker can employ. • The states
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the efficiency of operations and to reduce costs. Each individual partner in a supply chain‚ from supplier to buyer in this case‚ can benefit when both partners work closer together. Successful inventory management involves balancing the costs of inventory with the benefits of inventory. Many companies however fail to appreciate the true costs of carrying inventory‚ which include not only direct costs of storage‚ insurance and taxes‚ but also the cost of money spent in inventory. Keeping inventory
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CONVERSATION: SUBTLE INFLUENCES ON MORAL DECISION MAKING BRIAN C. GUNIA Johns Hopkins University LONG WANG City University of Hong Kong LI HUANG INSEAD JIUNWEN WANG J. KEITH MURNIGHAN Northwestern University This research investigated the role of contemplation‚ conversation (conceptualized as social contemplation)‚ and explanation in right-wrong decisions. Several theories suggest that contemplation or morally oriented conversation will promote ethical decisions and that immediate choice or self-interested
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