Management decision making

The world is spinning so fast it's difficult to keep up.

This book contains the papers given at a workshop organised by the Home Office (England and Wales) on the subject of residential burglary.

This book recapitulates the major developments in Decision Support Systems (DSS) over the last 30 years in order to evaluate the research areas of decision making and in which direction the field should proceed.

Information Technology (IT) - the field that links computer and communications equipment and software - is transforming the way modern business is done.

The objectives of industrial management are: - Implementation of the policy adopted by the owners or the board of directors - Optimum return on investment - Efficient utilization of Men, Machine and Money.

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects.

Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations.

Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact.

This book aims to present an overview of grey system models for time series modelling and forecasting.

This book is the second edition of Behavioral Decision Theory, published in 2014.

Sample-Path Analysis of Queueing Systems uses a deterministic (sample-path) approach to analyze stochastic systems, primarily queueing systems and more general input-output systems.

The foreign exchange market is one of the most complex dynamic markets with the characteristics of high volatility, nonlinearity and irregularity.

A proven decision management methodology for increased profits and lowered risks Knowledge Automation: How to Implement Decision Management in Business Processes describes a simple but comprehensive methodology for decision management projects, which use business rules and predictive analytics to optimize and automate small, high-volume business decisions.

The stability analysis of stochastic models for telecommunication systems is an intensively studied topic.

This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real-life benchmarking technique for actual organizations.

Multiobjective Scheduling by Genetic Algorithms describes methods for developing multiobjective solutions to common production scheduling equations modeling in the literature as flowshops, job shops and open shops.

Health threats pose significant dangers to humankind and form a major source of human suffering and sorrow.

This book presents a diversity of innovative and impactful research in the field of industrial and systems engineering (ISE) led by women investigators.

When you start a new managerial role, there is an inevitable contrast between what you believed you would find and what you're actually faced with.

This book presents a systematic review of multidimensional normalization methods and addresses problems frequently encountered when using various methods and ways to eliminate them.

This book offers a comprehensive compilation of research on the evaluation of the most environmentally and socially responsible financial institutions using a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach, with a focus on the principles of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) model.

In revising the Tinbergen Lectures I have expanded and restructured the material in an attempt to make the book more readable and more interesting.

This new 4th edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics.

This is an introductory level text on stochastic modeling.

Projekte sind hinsichtlich der AufgabensteIlung einzigartig und werden in der Regel einmalig durchgeführt.

In the face of ever more complex societal challenges, this book provides an essential new model for transforming the public sector and getting things done.

Build a successful SOCIAL BUSINESS by empowering the SOCIAL EMPLOYEEIncludes success stories from IBM, AT&T, Dell, Cisco, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, Domo, and Acxiom"e;Great brands have always started on the inside, but why are companies taking so long to leverage the great opportunities offered by internal social media?

This book presents applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process developed by Thomas L.

The eight discipline (8D) problem-solving methodology includes the following: Select an appropriate team Formulate the problem definition Activate interim containment Find root cause(s) Select and verify correction(s) Implement and validate corrective action(s) Take preventive steps Congratulate the teamThis unique book provides an overview of the 8D process, gives guidance on tools for finding root causes, shows 8D in action in eight case studies, and gives five unsolved problems for readers to apply 8D themselves for practice.

Analytical skills are in high demand but short supply.

This interdisciplinary reference and guide provides an introduction to modeling methodologies and models which form the starting point for deriving efficient and effective solution techniques, and presents a series of case studies that demonstrate how heuristic and analytical approaches may be used to solve large and complex problems.

Advances in Global Leadership collects insights from leading scholars and practitioners and fresh ideas from promising newcomers to the field.

This book focuses on the predictive capabilities derived from digital representation of humans in simulation or virtual environments.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green logistics and smart cities.

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Formal Design Theory (PDT) is a mathematical theory of design.

Based on the shared journey of two researchers, this book explores enhancing algorithms for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem.

Dieses aus drei Einzelbänden bestehende Werk bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das Gebiet des Operations Research (OR).

Purchasing and Supply Management includes the latest management, procurement, and negotiation techniques and the authors have taken great care to integrate the impact of global commerce on the buyers job.

This pioneering book addresses the latest research findings and application results on disruption management, which is the study of how to dynamically recover a predetermined operational plan when various disruptions prevent the original plan from being executed smoothly.

Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations contains selected articles from PRO-VE'03, the Fourth Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Lugano, Switzerland in October 2003.

Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers-and more often about asking the right questions.

This collection of articles aspires to be a permanent record of ideas which are likely to become important determinants in the future of management sciences.

This book explains how game theory can predict the outcome of complex decision-making processes.

This book explains 'what goes on in a manufacturing company as a product goes through its lifecycle'.

Decision-making has evolved recently thanks to the introduction of information and communication technologies in many organizations, which has led to new kinds of decision-making processes, called collaborative decision-making , at the organizational and cognitive levels.