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BUS237 Ch.8
Question | Answer |
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management | -directing resources -involves decision making -impacts all aspects of an organization |
decision making | selecting between alternatives |
5 type of resources | -financial resources -human capital -natural resources -tangible resources -intangible resources |
rational decision making | -asks the right Q -obtain all relevant info -discuss the prob with interested parties -weigh on the factors -choose best solution -implement the choice |
Ackoff's assumptions | -lack of info -> poor decisions -managers should know what data they need |
data | raw facts |
information | summarized data |
knowledge | relationship among pieces of info |
challenges of decision making | - info overload - bad data quality - collecting raw data is hard |
information overload | too many irrelevant info |
bad data quality | - dirty data -missing values -inconsistent data -data not integrated -granularity -too much data |
Data quality: granularity | data be defined at the correct level of detail for the intended use of the data. |