Every day, people are finding ways to use information to improve our lives, let our machines know us as we approach them, automate basic decisions in our organizations, and improve our relationships with our customers and employees.
Thus, a basic decision in developing a biodiversity-related monitoring program concerns the selection of appropriate indicators for evaluating regional variation and temporal trends of certain biodiversity components [12].
One of the most basic and important decisions in the content analysis was the selection of the meaning units and the further analysis into categories and themes, which was guided by the research question of the study.
Some managers have easy access to such figures, but surprisingly few know how to use them in evaluating basic decisions, such as determining the size and term of lease commitments (which may limit the company's flexibility) and in finding ways to increase utilization (which supports efficiency and effectiveness).
But the basic decision to unwind the magazine division has been years in the making.
In the following, we analyze the basic decisions retailers need to make in shelf-space and reorder planning, namely (1) how much shelf space to allocate to items, and (2) how often to reorder them.
For these designers, administrators, and planners, an interpretation of patient-centeredness served as a heuristic, guiding the most basic decisions about space, people, and processes in the hospital.
Instead, they said, the basic decisions were made by Vance in consultation with the president.
More moderate people like Colin Powell have been frozen out of the basic decision-making in dealing with international affairs".
