1. Assignment is a report
2. Introduction to Organisations as Systems
3. Decision Making in Organisations
4. ManagingInformation

You are expected to adopt a systems problem solving approach for this assessment. For one of the following scenarios undertake a regional economic analysis to identify the most suitable location for the organisations operation. You should detail your rationale, your decision making approach and any other factors you feel are pertinent to the organisation in question. Also provides a brief discussion from a systems perspective of how the wrong decision may impede the organisations ability to be effective and efficient.
Decision making criteria
A business have approached you, they want a site to place a new call centre to host their customer operations. They have identified 6 potential locations; Chester, Blackburn, Preston, Lancaster, Blackpool and Chorley.
Identify a location that will suit them best.
The employment demographics are:
Youthful workforce 16-29
The town/City needs to be under represented in competitive vocations
High levels of economic activity
Lower than average workplace incomes
Trained to NVQ2 and above

“Developing their analysis criteria”
“Rational decision making model”
The majority of the data required can be found through the “Official Labour Force Statistics data sets that can be found at http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/ or Neighbourhood Statistics” http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/
When you are click on these webpages, use local authority profile, Preston area and Lancashire local authority (LA) for details.
Advice: Always compare like for like. For example, if you pick data at the local authority level through Nomis you will have to this for all the potential locations.
You have the decision making variables but you must develop a decision making criteria/weighting for the variables. You need to explain this in your report.
The report should be developed and produced in a professional manner.

– Assignment or report steps:
– Executive Summary
– Contents page
– Objectives
– Alternative options
– Analysis approach/Methodology
– Analysis: Comparison &Evaluation of alternatives
– Recommendations
The report will be around 1900 words, and its references depends on the work. However, this report suppose to be in excel page.