Review of an Effective Decision Making ToolWhat tools are available to help teams make a decision? In addition to creating an environment conducive to effective decision-making and reaching consensus on team decision-making methods, there are tools that can help teams formulate and make decisions. Many of these tools were developed in the 1990s as companies worked to improve quality and introduce self-managed teams into the workplace. In decision making, there are many different decision models to help us through the process. Each decision-making model has several decision-making tools necessary to help narrow down the amount of information to only the ideas relevant to the decision at hand. In this article, we'll look at one of the many decision-making tools that can help us with this process. The specific decision-making tool we will talk about is team decisions. MULTIPLE VOTING In the decision-making process, brainstorming is used, by design, to generate a long list of ideas. If used alone, it can become very overwhelming and unmanageable. Many ideas may not even be realistic or feasible. However, multiple voting is designed to reduce the list or options to a manageable size for sincere consideration or study. It is not designed to help the group make a single decision, but can help the group reduce a long list of ideas into a manageable number that can be discussed and explored. This will also allow the entire group to be involved and ultimately save the group a lot of time by allowing them to focus their energy on the ideas with the greatest potential. The following is a multiple voting model of the “Strengthening the extension.... .. middle of document ......e Multiple voting would not be of any use. The second thing to consider is the number of ideas generated by brainstorming. If the number is very small, multiple voting is not really useful. in fact, it would be a waste of time that would be better spent making the final decision. One thing to remember when using a decision-making tool is to keep the end in mind, in other words, when working on a process, visualize it. The end result is useful. We must also remember that in every decision-making process, there are a multitude of tools to help us along the way. No tool is truly better than another, in fact most are made to complement each other, not as a soul. solution to the current process.[1] www.ca.uky.edu/agpsd/multivot.pdf p. 1-2[2] Excerpted from The Quality Toolbox by Nancy R. Tague, second edition, ASQ Quality Press, 2004, pages 359-361.