Management decision making

"e;Greg's collection of the best and worst decisions in history is a practical, nuanced and timeless guide for today's decision-makers.

This book is based on lectures given in a one-quarter course at UCLA.

This book provides an up-to-date study of the fundamental facets of supporting information technologies: organisation and people, data and information, presentation of information, and process.

Beyond Six Sigma and Lean!

This book uses the concepts of both cultural and psychic distance to analyse managers' perceptions in international business settings, with a specific focus on European and Chinese ventures in the green technology industry.

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This book addresses the growing need for a standard textbook on input-output analysis (IO) within the context of industrial ecology (IE).

The proven prescription for powerful business communicationSending an email plagued with typos.

This book presents a collection of essays written by leading researchers to honor Roman Slowinski's major scholarly interests and contributions.

Human Resource Management (HRM) wird als Studienfach oder -modul an Hochschulen immer beliebter.

Proven techniques for improving software and process quality with Six SigmaThis practical, in-depth guide explains how to apply Six Sigma to solve common product and process improvement challenges in the software and IT industry.

This pioneering book on food study pursues an interdisciplinary approach to service science and the service engineering field.

Throughout the development of mathematical programming researchers have paid great attention to problems that are described by a single objective that can only be achieved subject to satisfying a set of restrictions or constraints.

The book provides a broad introduction to both the theory and the application of optimization with a special emphasis on the elegance, importance, and usefulness of the parametric self-dual simplex method.

Challenging problems both attract and repel us.

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

​Die Energieproduktivität kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) ist gemessen an der Verfügbarkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit innovativer, energieeffizienter Produktionstechniken vergleichsweise gering.

An insightful and inspiring book on using both/and thinking to make more creative, flexible, and impactful decisions in a world of competing demands.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting.

This book addresses the challenges companies face when different customer value propositions require them to pursue a differentiated supply chain strategy.

How did a pioneering company in the semiconductor industry not only survive but thrive in the face of the explosive change and upheavals that forced it to transform itself twice in the course of its thirty-year history?

Open yourself to new possibilities.

This focuses on the developing field of building probability models with the power of symbolic algebra systems.

This book describes a wide range real-case applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in maritime related subjects including shipping, port, maritime logistics, cruise ports, waterfront developments, and shipping finance, etc.

There is a wide variety of perspectives for productivity analysis.

This book focuses on operations management methods for analysing complex systems from a system engineering perspective.

Change begins with a decision.

In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations.

This thesis deals with timing and sizing decisions for production lots, and more precisely, with mathematical models to support optimal tim- ing and sizing decisions.

The aim of this book is to help enable the use of the technique of simulation modelling in the organisation.

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Quality guru Subir Chowdhury introduces his groundbreaking new processIn The Power of LEO, Chowdhury outlines a simple, three-part strategy for building continuous quality improvement every business operation, which he calls LEO: Listen to your customers and employees; Enrich your company by fixing the problems you learn about and seizing future opportunities; and Optimize your company by making sure the problems remains fixed and executing resulting plans for improvement.

Business owners and managers are faced with countless decisions every business day.

What constitutes successful thinking in business?

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2021), which was hosted online by the University of Bern from August 31 to September 3, 2021, and was jointly organized by the Operations Research Societies of Switzerland (SVOR/ASRO), Germany (GOR e.

Coordination is extremely important in economic, political, and social life.

Delivers a strong contribution to the field of research on emotions in organizations offering original pieces of research.

This textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates.

Modeling Uncertainty: An Examination of Stochastic Theory, Methods, and Applications, is a volume undertaken by the friends and colleagues of Sid Yakowitz in his honor.

Learn how to thrive in even the most volatile economic climate with smart strategies from USA TODAY's top small-business columnistToday s small business owners need all the tools they can get whether to grow their business and have it take off, or simply to navigate and succeed in tough times.

This book studies the urban logistics system from the perspective of reliability, based on the theory of urban logistics and system reliability, with the research of urban logistics system reliability as the main line, with matter element analysis and ant colony algorithm as the main research tools.

Paul Williams, a leading authority on modeling in integer programming, has written a concise, readable introduction to the science and art of using modeling in logic for integer programming.

This book presents the latest technologies and operational methods available to support sustainable freight transport practices.

Everyone wants to be the kind of leader who energizes and mobilizes others-yet too few are.

The main purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the design of computer and communication systems that can aid the management process.

Progress in collaborative networks continues showing a growing number of manifestations and has led to the acceptance of Collaborative Networks (CN) as a new scientific discipline.