Decision-making practices in commercial enterprises: A cybernetic intervention into a business model

This article presents a decision-making framework and a technology that senior managers can use to steer the enterprise within a volatile and competitive commercial environment. The main aim of introducing such a technology would be to maximize the enterprise's value vector by ensuring that business objectives are consistently unfolded throughout the enterprise and used by all managers to make decisions that are consistent with the purpose and objective of the organization. The article illustrates how a cybernetic intervention into the business model of a large organization can be used to achieve this.