Successful Decision-making
A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems
Published on 18. April 2005
Book
Hardback
XX, 232 pages
978-3-540-24307-6 (ISBN)
Description
Unlike other publications on decision making, the book focuses on discovering the problem, analyzing it and on developing and assessing solution options.
One whole chapter describes a case study. It illustrates how the proposed decision making procedure is used in practice.
Executives get an approach to systematically and successfully solving complex problems.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Practitioners, students
Illustrations
100 s/w Abbildungen
100 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 15.6 cm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-24307-6 (9783540243076)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-27503-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
07/2009
2nd Edition
Springer
€48.10
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Additional editions
E-Book
03/2006
1st Edition
Springer
€46.99
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Persons
Content
Decision problems and decision-making procedures.- Decision problems.- Goal and problem-finding systems as requirements for the discovery of decision problems.- Rational decisions.- Decision-making procedures.- A general heuristic decision-making procedure.- Overview of decision-making procedure.- Discovering and analysing the decision problem.- Developing and evaluating options.- Establishing the overall consequences of the options and making the final decision.- A case study illustrating the application of the procedure.- Special issues and approaches to resolving them.- Information procurement decisions.- Collective decisions.