A Perspective Approach to Global Business Decisions

The Book addresses the need to appropriately consider diverse global perspectives for global businesses. It introduces methods that collect and evaluate global perspectives for organizational decision making, such that losses due to inadequate consideration of such perspectives, are minimised.

In the second chapter of the book, PEN analysis, a method to quantify perspective values is described, and a framework for its implementation is presented. In the following chapters, common issues faced by global businesses are considered. A perspective approach to address the issue is described. In the initial chapters, some of the core issues of organizational decision making is described, that develops the idea of perspective evaluation to the reader. Gradually, the reader is introduced to the greater issues of global business, further developing the previously presented ideas.

Statistical methods are employed for quantitative analysis of perspectives. Mostly, this includes standard statistics that does not require any specialist knowledge. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative description, the reader is accustomed to a perspective approach to issues of global business.

In each chapter, the initial sections describe an issue that is faced by global businesses. A description of the underlying causes and its analysis is presented. The value of consideration of perspectives for appropriate resolution of the issue, is described. Next, a statistical method using quantified perspectives for its resolution is presented, and further explained with an example. Finally, a framework for decision making on such issues is presented.