Internal Planning for Effective Operations in Warehousing Projects
Globally outsourcing 3PL Market is growing fast. In the US, the industry is expected to reach over $150 billion as compared to a global estimate standing at $450 billion as per industry experts estimates. Companies aiming for aggressive growth in global scenario recognize the need to partner with 3PL logistics providers to be able to […]
Selecting Critical Business Process for BPI Projects
Using Business Process Improvement as a tool to improve internal efficiencies and to bring about the desired changes in business operations has become an accepted practice in most of the Organizations. At a time where the life cycle of products and businesses is becoming shorter and fast changing in line with changes in technology and […]
Information System for Decision Support
Introduction In the current globalized business environment, decision making is becoming more and more difficult. Some of the problems faced by business are as follows: There is large volume of internal organizational data on hand thanks to the modern data-storage system. However, not all data available would be useful for decision. The flow of information […]
Do Emerging Markets Represent the New Frontier for Globalization ?
Ever since the onset of the global economic crisis, there has been much talk about how globalization has reached its nadir and that the concept of an integrated global economy leading to prosperity has been discredited. The reason for this cynicism was that many commentators blamed globalization for causing the global economic crisis and plunging […]
What is Health Insurance and the Different Health Insurance Systems around the World
Health Insurance around the World All of us would have heard the term Health Insurance in some form or the other and most of us would have taken health insurance policies to protect ourselves and our families from the prohibitive costs of healthcare. However, health insurance is a term that is actualized in practice differently […]
These are the top level processes that an organization is exposed to. These include tasks that need a high level of intellectual capability and will have wide spread effects in the structure and functioning of the organization. The nature of these processes can be compared to those that the human brain performs.
Here are some of the characteristic features of these processes and what makes them so challenging and interesting.
A strategic process is concerned with making decisions. Decisions are made only after data from various sources is received. This data is received from both within the organization as well as from the environment outside the organization. To add to this, it is the job of the management to ensure that the data is relevant and credible. Hence strategic processes face a data overload and also a possibility that the data may be incorrect. It is this decision making in the face of uncertainty that makes designing a strategic process challenging.
It is quite possible that an organization may have all the data related to the decision at hand, but it may not have the expertise to make sense of the data. For instance, in hindsight everyone sees the Sub-prime mortgage crisis as inevitable, but some of the brightest managers in the world could not see it coming despite the obvious signals in the data.
Strategic processes therefore must also ensure that the relevant skills are present in the system in the form of human or artificial intelligence that will help convert data into actionable information. A big leap forward in this regard is the idea of business intelligence systems.
Even when actionable information is available in front of the management in the form of alternatives, the payoffs are unknown and uncertain. This is what makes it difficult to create a science of decision making which is right now an art.
There are some who believe that strategic processes cannot be dehumanized. Although they are processes, they still are dependant on people and their intellectual capability. A standard operating procedure in this regard is only as possible as the standard operating procedure to attain greatness or nirvana!
Proponents of this theory believe that a skillful team is required at least at the top. This is justified as the reason behind outrageous executive compensations. However there are others in the field of artificial intelligence who are trying to find a mental model that can replicate the intelligence of these great business leaders and make it process oriented.
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
Continuous Improvement and Business Process Re-Engineering
February 12, 2025
