Decision-Making Tool: Brainstorming <Tab/>The purpose of this paper is to define decision-making tools and techniques. This paper will define a decision-making tool, brainstorming, and explain its application as well as when and when not to use this tool. Throughout the paper I will define, apply and explain when and when not to use brainstorming as your decision making tool. The first part is defining brainstorming. This is where a couple …showed first 75 words of 1201 total…

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