Successful Decision-Making
A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems
3rd Edition
Published on 16. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIX, 200 pages
978-3-642-44486-9 (ISBN)
Description
Making decisions is certainly the most important task of a manager and it is often a very difficult one. This book offers a decision making procedure for solving complex problems step by step. Unlike other texts, the book focuses on problem analysis, on developing solution options and on establishing the decision making matrix.
The book is intended for decision makers in companies, in non-profit organisations and in public administration. It is an approach to helping them to solve complex problems successfully. The book is also addressed to students and to participants in executive courses.
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Edition
3rd ed. 2013
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
biography
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
343 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-44486-9 (9783642444869)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-32307-2
Schweitzer Classification
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Content
Introduction.- Decision Problems and Decision-making Procedures: Decision Problems.- Goal and Problem-finding Systems as Requirements for the Discovery of Decision Problems.- Rational Decision-making.- Decision-making Procedures.- A General Heuristic Decision-making Procedure: Overview of the Decision-making Procedure.- Problem Verification and Analysis.- Developing and Evaluating the Solution Options.- Decision Maxims for Establishing the Overall Consequences of the Options.- Overall Evaluation of the Option and Decision.- A Case Study Illustrating the Application of the Procedure.- Special Problems and Approaches to Solve Them: Decision Sequences.- Information Procurement Decisions.- Collective Decisions.- Final Remarks.