ABSTRACT
There are some gross life-and-death policy issues now confronting most commercial and industrial enterprises and their requisite infrastructures. The timely implementation of appropriate and responsive policy decisions may be crippled by infestations of human error, or more hopefully, the corporate decisions may serve to vanquish most debilitating errors. The need for ongoing substantive policy changes has been induced by rapid technology advances, broad-scale information transfer, world trade interactions, global bureaucratic concerns, competitive costing, quality initiatives, and the social dynamics of the marketplace. This chapter, together with issues raised earlier in the book, should enable top managers to perceive and attempt to favorably resolve these challenges as they become manifest in varying forms.
