Management decision making

Project Risk Management sets out the key issues and concepts involved in effective risk and uncertainty management in a clear and accessible way.

This is the first book that sums up test-related modeling of digital circuits and systems by a new structural-decision-diagrams model.

Unter den Betriebsaufgaben von Infrastruktur oder Produktionsanlagen nehmen die Instandhaltungsmaßnahmen eine wichtige Rolle ein: Sicherheit, zuverlässige Produktionsfähigkeit und Werterhalt der Anlagen gehen mit ihnen einher.

This book introduces the theory and applications of uncertain optimal control, and establishes two types of models including expected value uncertain optimal control and optimistic value uncertain optimal control.

A step-by-step guide to the most efficient and effective method for participatory group decision-making Are you frustrated by that common challenge called group decision-making?

For courses in Decision Making and Engineering.

This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making.

Quantitative models and computer-based tools are essential for making decisions in today's business environment.

This book demonstrates that innovative ideas are systematically constructed in the creative space spanned by the dimensions of systems thinking and knowledge management.

Choosing the right market for your innovation is the biggest, and trickiest, question for innovators.

This book offers an introduction to the ripple effect in the supply chain for a broad audience comprising recent developments.

We live in an exciting time.

Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) are the most prominent example of portfol- related credit derivatives.

It isn't that they can't see the solution.

Causal analytics methods can revolutionize the use of data to make effective decisions by revealing how different choices affect probabilities of various outcomes.

This book reflects one mathematician's view of certain areas of economics and finance.

This book is based on a number of systems concepts, of which the following are emphasized here: oThe interacting systems of society and the environment are dynamic and evolution- ary oEvolution of these systems carries them through stages of differential stability and instability, continuity and discontinuity oAssociated with evolution and instability is structural change that is essentially irre- versible oThe present is a stage of world transformation that may not have been equaled for decades or even centuries oPolicies and decisions must match the times, in the present case the stage of world transformation The time 11:59:59 PM, approximately, on December 31, 2000 has an impor- tant symbolic meaning.

From management to strategy to leadership, this is the best of Harvard Business Review.

The definition of a consultant is someone who facilitates organisational change and provides expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or implementation.

This textbook offers a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Optimization Programming Language (OPL).

The best organizations have the best talent.

There is much specialist material written about different elements of managing risks of hazardous industries, such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk management.

Learn the strategies for taking complete control of your time and using it to get more done, increasing productivity and income exponentially.

This book examines how people make decisions under risk and uncertainty in operational settings and opens the black box by specifying the cognitive processes that lead to human behavior.

This book outlines the latest trends in the use of multicriteria analysis in agriculture by highlighting recent applications for modeling agricultural decision-making.

Die vorliegende Dissertation entstand neben meiner Tätigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und als Abteilungsleiter am Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebs­ wissenschaften (iwb) der Technischen Universität München.

How Do You Communicate When the Stakes Are High?

A central problem of prescriptive decision making is the mismatch between the elegant formal models of decision theory and the less elegant, informal thinking of decision makers, especially when dealing with ill-structured situations.

We are concerned here with a service facility consisting of a large (- finite) number of servers in parallel.

In this book, Binder shows that at the heart of the most prominent arguments in favour of value-neutral approaches to overall freedom lies the value freedom has for human agency and development.

Service Systems Implementation provides the latest applications and practices aimed at improving the key performance indicators of service systems, especially those related to service quality, service productivity, regulatory compliance, and sustainable service innovation.

This is the first dedicated book to be published on computer-aided General Morphological Analysis (GMA) as a non-quantified modelling method.

The book analyzes, compares, and contrasts tools and techniques used in risk management at corporate, strategic business and project level and develops a risk management mechanism for the sequencing of risk assessment through corporate, strategic and project stages of an investment in order to meet the requirements of the 1999 Turnbull report.

This book introduces readers to essential technology assessment and forecasting tools, demonstrating their use on the basis of multiple cases.

Legal risk covers all areas of business where regulation and the law impact on operations and decisions.

This Element elaborates on the promise and perils of commonly used and less well-known strategy tools to implement strategic management.

Constraint and Integer Programming presents some of the basic ideas of constraint programming and mathematical programming, explores approaches to integration, brings us up to date on heuristic methods, and attempts to discern future directions in this fast-moving field.

____________________This ground-breaking book from award-winning author MATT WATKINSON reveals the fundamental, inseparable elements behind the success of every business.

Doug Hall shares data-proven methods that can make sales, marketing, and business development measurably more effective.

This edited volume is an introduction to diverse methods and applications in operations research focused on local populations and community-based organizations that have the potential to improve the lives of individuals and communities in tangible ways.

This book highlights the use of an outcome-oriented view of performance to frame and assess the desirability of the effects produced by adopted policies, so to allow governments not only to consider effects in the short, but also the long run.

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the leading sponsor of basic academic research in engineering, and its influence far exceeds its budget.