Business decision making

Business decision making is essentially a process of selecting the best out of alternative opportunities open to the firm. The steps below put managers analytical ability to test and determine the appropriateness and validity of decisions in the modern business world. 
 
Following are the various steps in decision making process:
1.    Establish objectives
2.    Specify the decision problem
3.    Identify the alternatives
4.    Evaluate alternatives
5.    Select the best alternatives
6.    Implement the decision
7.    Monitor the performance
  Modern business conditions are changing so fast and becoming so competitive and complex that personal business sense, intuition and experience alone are not sufficient to make appropriate business decisions. It is in this area of decision making that economic theories and tools of economic analysis contribute a great deal.

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