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Business Decisions

Learn how to make informed decisions by understanding what drives the decision-making process, the consequences of poor decisions, and the rewards of making educated decisions. Explore the decision-making process and SWOT analysis to evaluate personal and business choices.

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Business Decisions

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  1. Business Decisions Unit 4: Agribusiness Management Lesson: AM1

  2. Objectives Lesson Objective: • After completing the lesson on business decisions, students will demonstrate their ability to apply the concept in real-world situations by obtaining a minimum score of 80% on Let’s Buy a Car Evaluation. Enabling Objectives: • Personally identify what drives the decision-making process, what interferes with the decision-making process, the consequences for making a poor decision, and the rewards for making an educated decision. • Define a problem and illustrate each step in the decision-making process in order to solve that problem. • Use the SWOT Analysis to evaluate a person and/or business decision.

  3. Key Terms • SWOT

  4. Making Decisions • Read the assigned article • Complete AM1.1 using information from the article and personal conclusions drawn from the article. • What drives the decision-making process? • What interferes with the decision-making process? • What are the consequences of making a poor decision, whether it is personal, financial, business, or other? • What are the rewards for making an educated decision, whether it is a personal, financial, business, or other choice?

  5. Personal Decision Making • What drives the decision-making process? • What interferes with the decision-making process? • What are the consequences of making a poor decision? • What are the rewards for making an educated decision?

  6. Classroom Cash • Who would buy the right to sit wherever you want to sit in class? • Who would like to earn money in class to pay a teacher for an assignment instead of having to do the work yourself? • Who wants to earn money for good behavior? • Who wants to earn money just for showing up for class? • What if you lost money for missing an assignment? • What if you had to pay me for every minute you were tardy to class?

  7. How does money change the stakes?

  8. Why do we need to be able to make decisions? • In order for a business to run smoothly, decisions are constantly made and occur at all levels of the business or organization. • How those decisions are made is an important factor in the success of a decision. • The leader of an organization must decide whether to take full control of the decision-making process or to allow input from other employees when making decisions.

  9. Decision-Making Process

  10. SWOT Analysis • Strengths • Weaknesses • Opportunities • Threats

  11. Strengths • What advantages does your organization have? • What do you do better than anyone else? • What unique or lowest-cost resources can you draw upon that others can't? • What do people in your market see as your strengths? • What factors mean that you "get the sale"? • What is your organization's Unique Selling Proposition (USP)?

  12. Weaknesses • What could you improve? • What should you avoid? • What are people in your market likely to see as weaknesses? • What factors lose you sales? • Again, consider this from an internal and external basis: • Do other people seem to perceive weaknesses that you don't see? • Are your competitors doing any better than you?

  13. Opportunities • What good opportunities can you spot? • Of what interesting trends are you aware? • Useful opportunities can come from such things as: • Changes in technology and markets on both a broad and narrow scale • Changes in government policy related to your field • Changes in social patterns, population profiles, lifestyle, and so on • Local events

  14. Threats • What obstacles do you face? • What are your competitors doing? • Are quality standards or specifications for your job, products, or services changing? • Is changing technology threatening your position? • Do you have bad debt or cash-flow problems? • Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your business?

  15. Conclusion • Making decisions is just another part of operating a business. Even with the best plans, decisions must be made and implemented to meet changing situations. If an owner or manager follows a logical decision-making process, however, changes may be more easily made.

  16. Shout It Out! • What drives the decision-making process? • What interferes with the decision-making process? • Consequences of poor decisions • Rewards of making educated decisions • Decision-Making Process • SWOT Analysis • SWOT Strengths • SWOT Weaknesses • SWOT Opportunities • SWOT Threats

  17. Exit Card • What did you learn today about decision making? • What questions do you still have about decision making?

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