Tactical Decision Making Criteria

1.) The following are the components of the tactical decision making model and how it was used step by step by Golden Care Inc.:
a. Recognize and define the problem:
In this case, the problem is that Golden Care’s residents are aging and will be looking for more traditional nursing homes in the near future. Lacey, Golden Care’s CEO, wants to do something before it actually happens. She wants to add a nursing home to Golden Care so that it can keep its current residents and enable them to make a smooth transition to a higher form of care.

b. Identify alternatives and eliminate those that are not feasible:
Lacey and her staff brainstormed and came up with 5 ways to potentially solve the
problem at hand. They eliminated building an entirely new facility based on the
grounds that it would be too costly and involve too much risk. They also eliminated
purchasing an existing nursing home because it wouldn’t be designed to ...