Decision and Decision-maker in an Industrial Environment

ConclusionSo, Ready to Decide?

Although Renard asked about the quality of his decision, at the risk of losing oneself in this question, this book sought to investigate the act of deciding, how a decision-maker manages to choose, to arbitrate at the risk of no longer knowing how to proceed, since the decision process presents so much richness and subtlety. To avoid getting lost in the labyrinth of concepts, principles, schools and other theories to only end up questioning ourselves, the intention here was to put forward some tangible elements, making it possible to nourish the decision-maker’s reflection, a reflection that lies within each of us.

Within this idea, we first invoked history, offering the perspective of the practice of the great civilizations on this question of decision and doing so from their shared aspects (a hierarchized, centralized and formalized vision), as well as in their specifics (ideal, compromise, improvement, etc.). What then appeared as determinant were the beliefs, values, habits, fears, knowledge and other aspects that shape humankind and color their decisions beyond their own intentions. However, it remains that when the decision-maker works on the basis of reason and does not know how to access or leave aside their intuition, they need a method to reach this decision. No doubt it is a bias of the authors to situate themselves in the Western context and the vision of Descartes, to depict here a decision imprinted with logic and rationality. But ...