{"id":227155,"date":"2018-09-17T08:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/mgmt-530-week-2-dq-1-defining-objectives-and-alternatives\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:36:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:36:02","slug":"mgmt-530-week-2-dq-1-defining-objectives-and-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/mgmt-530-week-2-dq-1-defining-objectives-and-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"MGMT 530 Week 2 DQ 1 Defining Objectives and Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it important to define clear objectives for the decision situation? How can you ensure that you have identified all the appropriate alternatives? Give an example of a problem that you are in the process of deciding or have decided on in the past&#8221;\ufffdidentify the objectives and alternatives.\t\u00a0\tWe will be looking at two key decision-making elements, which are objectives and alternatives.\u00a0The objectives will determine the criteria for evaluating solutions to the defined problem.\u00a0The alternatives for a decision situation are the options that need to be considered.\t\tLet us kick off the week by answering the following questions.\u00a0\t\tWhen relating objectives to decisions, is it fair to say that the clearest objectives lead to the easiest decisions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it important to define clear objectives for the decision situation? How can you ensure that you have identified all the appropriate alternatives? Give an example of a problem that you are in the process of deciding or have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/mgmt-530-week-2-dq-1-defining-objectives-and-alternatives\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}