C. Techniques for improving group decision making. There are four ways to make group decisions more creative. Brainstorming is an idea-generating process that encourages alternatives while withholding criticism. Nominal group technique is a decision-making technique in which group members are physically present but operate independently. Delphi technique is a group decision-making technique in which members never meet face to face.
Electronic meetings are decision-making groups that interact by way of linked computers.
Many decisions are made in order to solve problems, but decisions don't always have to revolve around problem solution. Computers will allow managers to more easily gather information and analyze it, but it's doubtful that utilizing computers will allow managers to be more rational. It meets the decision maker's criteria of being both satisfactory and sufficient. Rather than optimizing, it meets the minimum threshold test. A rule is an explicit statement that tells a manager what he or she ought or ought not to do.