Decision making and strategic planning tool sets

This book wants to contribute to the upgrade of current decision-making and decision-making support tool sets. Decision makers have been always searching for comprehensive situational awareness. Today technology promises them that outstanding information gathering capacities will deliver all they may want to know. Instead complete information cannot be reached as in today''s world drivers and variables multiply faster than technology based tool sets improvements. Furthermore even admitting a decision maker could ever get a deliverable providing him with complete information pure situational awareness is not sufficient per se to take the smartest decision. Information must serve a strategy that has to be robust and consistent with the decision maker''s desired end-state if the he wants to maximize his possibilities of success. How do we build strategies today? What is public and private decision makers'' understanding of strategy planning? Is that consistent with today''s dilemmas?