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How would you design a decision support system to improve managing this project? Provide your suggestions in a Word File.( Do not describe case study

How would you design a decision support system to improve managing this project? Provide your suggestions in a Word File.( Do not describe case study please give suggestions of improvement in the case study project)

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Case Study: Black Hawk Down The intent of this case study is to provide a stark understanding of the impact Moreover, political and social assumptions dictated the strategic position assumptions management can have. This first case study in assumptions toward calamity. Defense Secretary Les Aspin stepped down following received a great amount of public attention. While this case exposed Mogadishu, admitting responsibility for the failure, as he denied requests for awareness of many command and planning gaps that the U.S. military failed additional armored vehicles and tanks in the operation. This move was based to address coming out of the Vietnam War, it also led to the creation of on assumptions of Somali support for the American endeavor and of superior techniques to combat them. capability in communication through more advanced technology. However, as Operation Gothic Serpent was the military extension of Operation Restore Matthew Bryden-a Canadian who was working with a relief organization in Hope-an effort to combat famine in civil war-stricken Somalia. It evolved into Somalia-describes, Somali animosity was cultivated in the three months an effort to combat chaos spawned by warring political factions and tribes by leading up to Mogadishu through air strikes on the city. One such airstrike establishing a democratic government. While Operation Restore Hope had killed at least 60 people, including local leaders and elders, only some of successfully negotiated with rival warlords and established the safe delivery of whom supported extremist ideologies. Furthermore, Bryden credits the aid for a short period, the increased 1993 military intervention by the U.S. and complicated inter-clan loyalty structures as fomenting resistance to the United Nations operated on multiple assumptions that eventually Americans. Unfortunately, American strategy overlooked these realities, thus culminated in the infamous Black Hawk Down incident. jeopardizing the operation. On October 3, 1993, an attempt to insert highly-trained Army Rangers and The effects of these presumptions were exacerbated by a military dedication Special Forces into the city to capture two of warlord Mohamed Aidid's highest to hierarchical leadership structures. Orders from higher-ups were taken as lieutenants was quickly jeopardized when two Black Hawk helicopters were absolute, which inhibited the ability of subordinates to point out assumptions. shot down by an RPG. The Battle of Mogadishu turned into a rescue The Black Hawk Down case study showcases the danger of assumptions, and operation to retrieve the crews of the fallen helicopters that would ultimately that even the most competent of teams can be hurt by them. impact American lives: 18 dead, 73 wounded, and an alarmed American public. Crisis revealed the assumptions operating at both the on-the-ground tactical level and the overarching strategic level. For the Rangers and Special Forces, assumptions manifested in deadly miscommunications. First, soldiers and their squad leaders confessed confusion about protocol for fighting in a densely populated civilian environment and felt as if they could not protect themselves or civilians. At one point, two different groups of U.S. forces waited to hear from each other, each assuming that their counterpart would contact them first. In this period, the second Black Hawk helicopter was shot down. Second, several times during the mission, helicopters experienced landing delay or displacement because of clouds of dust stirred up by the rotors. Dust also inhibited squadron movement, leading to a large group of Rangers being immobilized in the city. The rescue mission was substantially more difficult because of assumptions in knowledge of protocol, communication, and conditions

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