Management decision making

This book investigates in detail large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) problem, which has gradually evolved from the traditional group decision-making problem and has attracted more and more attention in the age of big data.

This book presents some of the most important papers published in Palgrave's Journal of Operational Research relating to the use of System Dynamics (SD) in the context of Operational Research (OR).

Robust methods to identify new growth opportunitiesYOUR SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND growth; your company needs growth; and your career can suffer or soar because of how you drive growthor dont.

Constraint Programming is a problem-solving paradigm that establishes a clear distinction between two pivotal aspects of a problem: (1) a precise definition of the constraints that define the problem to be solved and (2) the algorithms and heuristics enabling the selection of decisions to solve the problem.

Cutting and packing problems such as the cutting of sheet metal and the loading of contain- ers or, in a more abstract sense, capital budgeting or assembly line balancing have been treated in scientific literature of various disciplines for about fifty years.

From business guru Joseph Michelli-the leadership lessons needed to thrive beyond the greatest business crisis in modern historyCOVID-19 has disrupted business and life in ways we never imagined.

Organizations in the Face of Crisis offers a new approach to the treatment of threats to an organization, the brand, and the stakeholders.

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors.

This third volume provides an executive overview of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and details the roles that executives play in PLM initiatives.

Don't wait for a crisis.

How do you decide on the best course of action for your company to take advantage of new opportunities?

This 2003 book summarizes theoretical developments in statistical tools to measure financial markets, for students and professionals in econophysics and analytical markets.

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This book aims to revisit the "e;traditional"e; interaction between channel strategies and the marketing mix in a connected world.

This book provides students and researchers with a resource that includes the current application of the multi-criteria decision theory in a variety of fields, including the environment, health care, engineering, and architecture.

Decision-making is a process of choosing from possible courses of action in order to attain goals and objectives.

This book considers a range of problems in operations research, which are formulated through various mathematical models such as complementarity, variational inequalities, multiobjective optimization, fixed point problems, noncooperative games and inverse optimization.

For courses in Decision Making and Engineering.

A dynamic new way to understand intuition, already implemented around the world at top companies and business schools Neuroscience shows that instinct has a leading role in complex decision-making, yet imaginative play is the most direct means of activating our creativity and problem-solving abilities.

This book systematically explores theories related to linguistic computational models and group decision making methods under uncertainty.

Over the past thirty-five years, a substantial amount of theoretical and empirical scholarly research has been developed across the discipline domains of Transportation.

Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation provides an extensive, up-to-date coverage of decision analytic methods which help firms and public organizations allocate resources to 'lumpy' investment opportunities while explicitly recognizing relevant financial and non-financial evaluation criteria and the presence of alternative investment opportunities.

The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering-and it's only getting worse.

In today's organizations, leaders are neither able nor expected to do everything themselves.

Around the world, liberalization and privatization in the electricity industry have lead to increased competition among utilities.

Risk is of fundamental importance in this era of the global economy.

Business models are the beating heart of your firm's value proposition.

From the Preface:Blending ideas from operations research, music psychology, music theory, and cognitive science, this book aims to tell a coherent story of how tonality pervades our experience, and hence our models, of music.

Leaders often say 'I communicate' when, in fact, they mean 'I tell'.

This fascinating new core textbook, authored by a highly respected academic with over a decade of industry experience, takes a global and strategic approach to the important topic of operations management (OM).

Michael Strobel worked for several years as a software engineer and consultant in the German IT industry before joining IBM Research in Switzerland, where he developed his interest in support for negotiations in electronic markets.

You'll get there faster if you just slow down Master Your Mind offers a bit of perspective and a lot of insight for anyone seeking long-term success.

This book gives a thorough and systematic introduction to the latest research results about fuzzy decision-making method based on prospect theory.

This book tackles the perplexing problem of how to capture the qualitative differences that exist in entrepreneurship at any given point in time or across time, by presenting a novel qualitative index: Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI).

This book presents a structured approach to develop mathematical optimization formulations for several variants of facility layout.

Computational economics has been at the forefront in stimulating the de- velopment of mathematical methodologies for the analysis and solution of complex, large-scale problems.

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories, and applications from various areas of management and engineering.

This is the first book presenting a broad overview of parallelism in constraint-based reasoning formalisms.

Making decisions is certainly the most important task managers are faced with, and it is often a very difficult one.

The book presents the proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2022), which took place in Krynica-Zdroj, Poland, 05-07 October 2022.

Dynamics of Information Systems: Algorithmic Approaches presents recent developments and results found by participants of the Fourth International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, which took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA on February 20-22, 2012.

Business models are the beating heart of your firm's value proposition.

This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how.

The purpose of this study is in keeping with the shift in concern over the eco- nomic problems of growth to those of income distribution in recent years.

Strategic planning is an essential task that helps companies adapt to changes in the environment and to develop proactively.

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way.