Making better business decisions is important for the leaders of every organization. Whether the business is small, medium, or large as well as whether the business is a profit-making or non-profit making organization. Every level of management of an organization made decisions on a daily basis. Refining the decision skills is very important for the leaders and business owners of organizations to enhance the quality of decision making.
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Simple Guides to Make Better Business Decision
The following simple guides will help leaders of every organization to make better business decisions.
#1: Identification of your goal
The first step in making a better business decision is to identify the goal of your decision. This involves identifying the problems or underlying issues to solve with the decision. Therefore, it solves the root problem you are trying to achieve as the outcome of your decision.
#2: Development of decision criteria
The next step is to develop clear and concise criteria for your decision-making that can be used to evaluate different alternatives to achieve the established goal.
#3: Obtain information about the alternatives
So, this involves obtaining information about the alternatives or courses of action to achieve your goal based on the identified decision criteria. However, you can use brainstorming to obtain various alternatives to enhance better decision making to achieve your goal. During brainstorming, you don’t judge the options that members suggested, even if they look unacceptable. This is because the optimal alternative is drawn from out-of-the-box and innovative options.
#4: Evaluation of your alternatives
This involves the evaluation of identified courses of action to determine the best option using different evaluation tools and techniques. Some of the evaluation tools and techniques that can be used include T-Chart, decision matrix, decision tree, cost-benefit analysis, and others. At this stage, you have to free your decision from the influence of relationships, politics, and personalities. This involves separating alternatives from those who present them.
#5: Implementation of the chosen alternative
Implement the selected alternative and make sure to establish a clear line of communication and accountability.
#6: Evaluation of the decision
However, evaluation of your decision toward the attainment of the identified goal. It involves short-term and long-term evaluation. If new relevant information or factors emerges to warrant adjustment of any of the earlier stages such as your goal, decision criteria, and others don’t hesitate to do it.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the process of making a better business decision for your organization must not be rigid. It needs to be flexible enough to revisit any steps if there is a need for adjustment due to the emergence of more relevant information during the process.
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Afeez is one of the founding partners of Marasas Consulting limited. He consults for both individuals and entities in the area of accounting, management, audit, tax, and investment. He has a wide range of experience both online and offline which allows him to provide relevant and timely professional advice and assistance to business owners with their accounting, tax, management, audit, and investment plans.
Afeez is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered). He is a certified Google analyst and strategist. He earned his Bachelor degree in Management and Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and earned an ordinary national diploma in Accountancy from The Polytechnic of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He earned certification in “Excel Crash Course” and “Reading of Financial Statement” from Corporate Finance Institute, Canada.
Afeez is dedicated to helping clients achieve business success by helping them to establish solid and sound accounting, tax, and financial processes.
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