Problem: Where the product for the store comes from; and the negatives that come along with puppy mills and mass production of animals for pet stores.
1. Past Decision Processes:
The decision processes I used during this class for this problem were the guidelines throughout the Smart Choices book we used, Kepner-Tregoe problem analysis, TRIZ, ethics checklist, brainstorming, and decision tree’s. They have been helpful to look at the issue from many different angles. They have also shown different alternatives or even more issues.
2. Future risks, impediments, or windfalls:
When dealing with small vendors they can go out of business quickly or when they have issues themselves, they can have no product and sometimes no real answers. Some customers also might not feel comfortable buying from a smaller business and some customers also might not want to adopt; if they did, they would go to a pound.
3. Unexpected external impacts on your problem and chosen alternative/s:
This can be a hard subject for a lot of people and can spark a lot of emotion. Emotional blocks seem to be quite an impact from all ends. Whether it’s harsh emotion, endearing, or just plain sad, the emotion aspect to the issue really causes more problems than without. Sometimes people don’t want to think about the negatives or the harshness of a situation and more about the happiness their about to have. If you are to take the issue out of the customers face, and just offer them puppies and kittens, sometimes they don’t care where it comes from, just that they can buy them quickly and easy.
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