Apollo 13 Strategic Decision Making

Strategic Decision Making
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Strategic Decision Making
If we think of organizations and their surrounding environments as political systems, the phrase ‘strategic decision making’ assumes a completely different meaning. Organizations and their surrounding environments depend on each other in several ways, benefit from each other and are either positively or negatively impacted as a result of strategic decisions made by either party. Therefore, in order to be able to create situations where the relationship between both political systems is positive and both mutually benefit from each other, it is essential to deploy logic and rationale to the process of decision making. Decisions undertaken by the political systems would be of equal importance as those that have not been taken. In other words, a decision might be taken to not undertake a particular action for the mutual benefit of both political systems. This re-enforces the fact that strategic decision making lies at the very heart of strategy creation. The main aim of this essay is
It was soon discovered that Apollo 13 was venting out oxygen into the outer space and a proper reason for the same was not known. Based on a limited amount of information that was available with the control room at that time, it was decided that the leaking oxygen tank needed to be isolated by shutting down the reacting value in the tank. This decision was made despite knowing that Apollo 13 would no longer be able to land on the moon. The possibility of a manufacturing defect on the other hand was not considered at all at this time as no data on the same was available. Thus, looking at this example, it might be concluded that interaction of the two political systems facilitates data which in turn affects strategic decision