A decision to build a new plant, acquire another company, create a new position, enter into a strategic alliance, invest in enhancing operations, or develop a new product is a type of decision.

Non-Programmed.

Explanation:

A decision to build a new plant, acquire another company, create a new position, enter into a strategic alliance, invest in enhancing operations, or develop a new product is a non-programmed type of decision. Non-programmed decisions are unique, contextual and ill-structured. They are mostly handled and managed with the help of intuition, gut feelings, experience and heuristics. They also require some out of the box thinking and creative approach. For example, if KFC has to open its store in Egypt, whether they should open it or not, whether they should add new products in their menu or not, whether they should enhance their operations or not, all of these decisions are non-programmed. The strategies made to handle and manage them may or may not work for other organizations because these decisions and their results are purely contextual.