Management

Harvard view: management is decision-making

Since 1945, the Americans "decision theory" and its application to business work, the "make a correct decision-making" has become an important business element of the process. The famous Land Law also shows: the world of bankruptcy for every 100 large enterprises, 85% due to careless decision-making caused by business managers. End of the 60s, Mintzberg (Mintzberg) work on the five general managers conducted a careful study. He found that managers played dozens of different but highly related role. This is 10 kinds of roles can be further divided into three areas: interpersonal relationships, information delivery and decision-making. In these three areas, the decision-making is the management of the core, the most substantial role in the management of all activities revolve around decision-making, decision-making of the overall quality of the enterprises have a significant impact on the success or failure. Decision-making, broadly speaking, is to collect information, identify objectives, develop programs, evaluate options, tracking feedback and a series of processes, both as a practice, it is appropriate in terms of objective laws and be aware of grasp the premise of a subjective will participate in awareness activities. Narrow sense, decision-making is to make a choice of several programs. When Intel's change the world filled with computers, someone asked the former president of Intel's Mr. Grove, your success is because your particular smart, he said: "No, but we made the right decision more . " Management of the core is the "decision-making." The process of global economic integration and development of information technology to eliminate many barriers to circulation. Enterprises than ever are faced with more complex living environment, more difficult to develop and maintain their competitive barriers. Competitive...