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intelligence,
design, and
choice
◦ Problem Identification and Definition
What's the problem?
Why is it a problem?
Whose problem is it?
Problem Structuring
Generate alternatives
Set criteria and objectives
Develop models and scenarios to
evaluate alternatives
Solve models to evaluate alternatives
Solution
Strategic Vs Operational
Certainty
All possible alternatives are known and the cost
and benefit associated with each is also known
Risk
Here we know the probability associated with
each state of nature
Uncertainty
No estimate about the probability are available.
Ambiguity
Rational Man Model
decision rule
Use only one criterion for a suitable choice
Impulsive decision-making usually falls
criterion, and so on
Decision-making becomes a sequential
heuristics
◦ Availability
◦ Adjustment and anchoring
◦ Representativeness
◦ Motivational