Planning and Decision Making for a Manager

Hi Manager, from the study of Strategic Management, or QMS, we are obliged to truly understand where and how being in a condition which our institutions. Before proceeding we shall mapping or capturing, to identify the real condition of our institutions. So that we can plan our steps toward the goal / objective that is expected. In other words, knowing we stand is important, because it is the initial step for step or policy that a manager will do.

Without knowing where we stand we can not perform managerial activities properly, both via the Input-Process-Output (IPO), POAC, PDCA, as well as a branded management system.

Rather it is the beginning of the process for Planning. For quantitative measurements by knowing where we stand (as the zero point), will easily find out the distance that we traveled, and travel time. If the zero point without knowing, what could be the basis for performance measurement, and it must be difficult for Evaluation (CHECK), especially for applications Continual Improvement.

In decision making, the decision was made up of 2 (two) polar, namely: analytical and intuitive. By knowing where a manager stand, it would be easier to make decisions, especially if we choose analytic decision-making.While the intuitive decision-making was usually done by those who have long experiences in decision-analytic. They actually make decisions analytically, but done very fast analysis.