DECISION MAKINGMGT 236 Read up on the followign famous decis

DECISION MAKING---MGT 236

Read up on the followign famous decisions using Wikipedia and tother sources

*Sonys\' decision to develop, produce and market the Walkman

* Pesident\'s Kennefy blockade to blockade druing the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962

Treasury Secretaty Paulson\'s decision to launch the TARP in the fall 2008

---identify the key players in the social space for each decision---include

stakeholders decision makers, and implementers, the public and external forces

---identify the perspectives and roles of each player (or set of players)

Solution

The Cuban Missile crisis is also known as the October Crisis or the Missile Scare was a 13 days (October 16-28, 1962) confronation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

In response to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961 and the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba\'s request to place nuclear missiles on the island. An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July 1962 and construction of a number of missiles launch facilities started later that summer.

More details in Collaboration, after the Bay of Pigs Kennedy brilliantly retooled his group decisin-making process. He ordered a review and subsequently instituted four changes to how his top team would make critical decision:

1.Each participant should function as a \"skeptical generalist\", focusing on the problem as awhole rather than approaching it from his or her department\'s standpoint.

2. To stimulate freewheeling discussions, the group should use informal settings, with no formal agenda and protocol, so as to avoid the status- laden meetings in the White House.

3. The team should be broken into sub-groups that would work on the alternatives and then reconvene.

4. The team should sometimes meet without Kennedy, so as to avoid people simply following his views.

Responese considered

The US has no plan in place because its intelligence had been convinced that the Soviet would never install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The EXCOMM quickly discussed several possible courses of action.

1. Do nothing: American vulnerability to Soviet missiles was not new.

2.Diplomacy: Use diplomatic pressure to get the Soviet Union to remove the missiles.

3. Secret approach: Offer Castro the choice of spillting with the Russians or being invaded.

4. Invasion: Full force invasion of Cuba and overthrow of Castro.

5. Air strike: Use the US air force to attack all known missiles sites.

6. Blockade: Use the US Navy to block any missiles from arriving in Cuba.