Six Steps to Decision Making

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Abstract Decision-making lies at the heart of most important business and government problems. In this topic, I am going to apply the six decision-making steps to the town’s planning board decision. The topic questions are: (1) What objectives might the town pursue in making its decision? (2) What additional information would the planning board need in carrying out the various steps? And (3) What kind of analysis might the board undertake? Six Steps to Decision Making Step #1: Define the Problem: The problem in this case is that the board has to make a decision before renewing the lease to the current tenant. Step #2: Determine the Objective: The objective is to weigh all the benefits and costs from the available alternatives. Step #3: Explore the Alternatives: In our case we have six (6) alternatives; (A) Renew the current lease agreement., or (B) Renegotiate the lease and solicit other tenants, or (C) Use the building for needed additional town office space, or (D) Sell the building to a private developer (if one can be found), or (E) Convert the building to condominiums to be sold by town, or (F) Raze the building and sell the site and all or part of the surrounding playing fields as building lots. Step #4: Predict the Consequences: The consequences for the above six alternatives might be as follows: Alternative (A): It will generate a small but steady cash flow and free the town of maintenance expenses. Alternative (B): The building was being rent for 20 years to the same tenant. I am not sure if other tenants will be interested to rent the building, as they would had offered that to the town a long time ago. Also the process of soliciting other tenants will cost the town some administrative expenses. Alternative (C): This means the town will lose the cash flow and will be responsible for the building maintenance expenses. Alternative (D):

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