Assignment: Project: Decision Situation
In this assignment, you will identify a decision-making situation to analyze for your course project.
Please see the Project page for an overview of the course project and an explanation of the assessment criteria your instructor will use to evaluate your final project. (The Project page is available from any page in this course by clicking on the Project tab in the top navigation bar.)
Procedure
My decision-making situation will be the use of RDIF (Radio Frequency IDentification) in bag tags at the airport.
1. Identify a decision-making situation to work with for your course project. Ideally, this will be a decision that an organization or group is currently trying to make. Consider your current employer, spouse or friend's employer, church, city government, fire department, etc.
2. Using your knowledge of the situation: Describe the decision-making situation Identify stakeholders Describe the scope (or reach) of the decision-making situation Explain what makes the decision difficult (complexity, uncertainty, tradeoffs)
3. Comment on how PrOACT "elements" might give you a better understanding of the decision-making situation.
4. Summarize what you have learned about the decision-making situation.