Decisions in Paradise Business Scenario

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Decisions in Paradise Business Scenario

The decision making technique to be applied for current situation in the country of Kava should be the ‘Six Thinking Hats’. Six thinking hats is a powerful technique that helps to look at important decisions from a number of different perspectives. It helps to make better decision by pushing one to move outside their habitual ways of thinking. It helps to understand the full complexity of the decision, and spot issues and opportunities to which one might otherwise be blind.

Many successful people think from a very rational, positive viewpoint. This is part of the reason that they are successful. Often, though, they may fail to look at a problem from an emotional, intuitive, creative or negative viewpoint. This can mean that they underestimate resistance to change, fail to make creative leaps, and do not make essential contingency plans.

If we look at a problem with the 'Six Thinking Hats' technique, then we will solve it using all approaches. Our decisions and plans will mix ambition, skill in execution, sensitivity, creativity and good contingency planning.

Each ‘Thinking Hat’ is a different style of thinking. These are explained below:

• White Hat: We know that the white hat enables us to look at the data available to us already, and we infer this data in order to develop a better solution. Applying this to the case, it is established that Kava is an insignificant country in the south pacific with huge potentials for trading in oil, coffee, cocoa, sugar, spices, etc. It is a diverse country with people of different religions and nationalities. Labor is relatively cheap although half of the population is under 15 years of age. The country is exposed to various natural disasters such ...

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My best solution would be to work inside out. Develop the country and encourage the existing businesses to be more social and at the same time, the business should try to expand their operations. Some of the solutions that can be identified through the above mentioned processes is that the country needs to be developed internally because of the lack of medical help, high risk of diseases. It is very important to address these issues first because it could hamper the quality of the products that Kava would export. Therefore, with the help of the government and other businesses, they would try to combat these entire first and at the same time start preparing the country for major developments, so that they would not oppose any of it; assuming that the terrorist are against all this, so by providing proper amenities to the laborers and their workers.

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