Decisions in Paradise Part II
July 11, 2011

Kava is a significant island country in the South Pacific. The island country faces many different disaster threats. Over half of the country’s population is under the age of fifteen. Kava’s economy has a strong production of natural resources, as well as specific foods, such as bananas, coffee, cocoa, sugars and fish. Kava’s economy offers inexpensive, quality labor. Kava has support from the local, state and national government, community based organizations, faith-based groups and businesses in order to grow the economy in the significant island country. The island has a wide variety of ethnicities, creating language barriers because of all the different ethnicities
Bluegrass Construction Company, Inc. (BCC) hired me, Nik, to study, synthesize, analyze, and prescribe the best business decisions in order to establish a greater presence of our company in Kava. I have decided to implement a decision-making technique to create an appropriate solution for BCC to overcome challenges in our overall goal of establishing a greater presence of our business in Kava. After visiting the island, seeing the problems our company is facing, and knowing where we want to go with our business in Kava, I think the best course of action is to implement brainstorming as our decision-making technique in order to strengthen our presence in Kava.
Analysis of Specific Steps in Applying Brainstorming
Through my analysis of the island, the disasters and threats it faces and the potential the island has I think the first step and the greatest challenge we face is finding a way to provide education to the island. The biggest hindrance I have found on the island is all the barriers preventing the island to become a nation and work together to grow its economy. To begin the brainstorming decision-making technique we’ll need to elect a team leader and schedule meetings for each ethnicity to be included so that everyone’s voice may be heard. In this change to create a greater presence of BCC on the island we want all of efforts, time and money to yield positive results. I feel as though the only way to yield those positive results is to let as many ethnicities and groups of people who want their voice heard the opportunity to speak. As a business, we need to write up our intentions and schedule an advertised town meeting so we make an announcement and get feedback from the natives. We will designate someone to record notes in order to weigh our pros and our con’s and take suggestions so that we can begin making decisions based on what the people of the country want to see. After gathering all the information we can start taking the best ideas and formulating our plan on what the best approach to educating the people of this island is. After the plan is formulated we can implement the plan with all the resources needed to complete it. By the end of our brainstorming sessions and a final implementation is in place we should know how to overcome the language barriers, how to educate the island of AIDS and HIV, and how to help educate the overwhelming 50% of the population’s youth on the intentions of growing the economy and how our company is going to assist in doing so. I feel as if this is the best approach to the given situation because it is the foundation of this island’s future. We cannot control the weather and natural disasters, but we can educate the people of this island how to handle the situations, build stronger infrastructure to minimize damage and cost when these disasters hit and how to rebuild and repair the damage that takes place. Unfortunately, without that type of education everything we strengthen and build within the nation’s economy may be worthless after a disaster or threat if they cannot communicate and work together to rebuild. The company will need to clarify its issues, understand the facts, develop solutions and options, and explain those options to those who may be affected by the decision issues (Chapman, 2010). After the education portion of the implementation is complete there will be an easier route to negotiating pay, describing the intent, purpose and responsibility of the human resource department, how our company intends on upholding ethics and the ways we go about doing that and lastly, making the transition and growth of our presence stronger in a respectful and strong form.
Influences of Brainstorming for the Proposed Solution Brainstorming is defined in our text as
Brainstorming positively influenced and impacts my proposed solution by allowing the residents of the island to have a voice in our growth and intentions for the island. By allowing them to have a voice and interact with us they are more likely to support us and be a part of our growth. With their education we support and suggest, the economy of the island will grow, not only helping our business, but also helping the financial burdens of the residents. With the residents education relieving some of the financial burdens the residents will have more money to spend, in turn helping our business by allowing it to grow. The negative impacts are the longevity and planning this decision-making technique takes. It takes extensive planning and looking to the future in order to complete it in a way that will be profitable to our business. The longevity of this plan slows the growth of our business on the island greatly till the process is completed. I think the benefits of how the business will develop on the island outweigh the negatives of time and planning. Brainstorming will create a more sound business on the island, more likely to develop stronger and have a greater presence, for a longer time.