Decision-Making & Problem Solving

"This much needed book . . .is a creative, helpful, and hopeful contribution at a time when we are especially challenged to bridge cultures in the pursuit of mutual understanding and peace." -Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Laureate In our global society,...

A comprehensive introduction to a powerful new approach for planning organizational change and community action. You'll discover a simple framework for understanding the process and clear step-by-step instructions to guide you in conducting your own...

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Strategic Management provides clear, concise up to the minute and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts covering the whole of the fast changing field of contemporary strategy.About...

This book helps managers and students of management to makes sense of the competing advice on how to change organisations in order to improve their effectiveness. Helps managers to understand how their organisations' performance could be improved...

Strategy according to Percy Barnevik, Chairman of ABB is 10 per cent vision and 90 per cent execution. Yet standard textbooks of strategic management are decidedly light in terms of their treatment of the organisational issues which frequently derail...

Strategy according to Percy Barnevik, Chairman of ABB is 10 per cent vision and 90 per cent execution. Yet standard textbooks of strategic management are decidedly light in terms of their treatment of the organisational issues which frequently derail...

Much strategic guidance that is currently available on product and service development is still focused in the relatively short term. Companies must plan and be flexible if they are to survive and flourish in the future, but too many surrender to the...

A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard performance drivers Nils-Goran Olve, Jan Roy and Magnus Wetter Since the groundbreaking work of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has achieved increasing...

Cooperative Strategy Competing Successfully through Strategic Alliances Pierre Dussauge and Bernard Garrette HEC-School of Management, France In recent years, such corporate giants as Boeing, Toyota, Nestle, Philips, United Airlines, IBM, and Intel have...

Amidst the accelerating change of an increasingly competitive global market, Information, Organization and Management demonstrates how business success in the global market place depends upon products and services rich in variety, value and instantly...

Flood introduces a dynamic new problem solving system called Total Systems Intervention (TSI). He provides a clear understanding of TSI in terms of its philosophy, principles and process, explaining what is happening when using this system and how to...

"Sarbanes Oxley and the Board of Directors" is a practical, down to earth guide for board members. It covers everything from board basics to compliance with regulations, corporate culture and values to assessing and reacting to hostile...

Would your company be prepared in the event of: Computer-driven espionage A devastating virus attack A hacker's unauthorized access A breach of data security? As the sophistication of computer technology has grown, so has the rate of computer-related...

The Last Days of the Giants? A Route Map for Big Business Survival "Somewhere out there is a bullet with your companya s name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your business model obsolete. Bill Gates...

Emerging technologies such as the Internet and biotechnology have the potential to create new industries and transform existing ones. Incumbent firms, despite their superior resources, often lose out to smaller rivals in developing emerging technologies...

Perspectives from leaders in decision science at Wharton Organized in part through Wharton's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, the book assembles leading researchers from Wharton's business faculty who demonstrate how to apply the latest...

Get a high-level overview of project management with this strategically focused book. You'll find practical guidance, useful advice, and valuable tools and techniques for navigating project management. The authors demystiy project management by defining...

In the complex world of today, important policy and business decisions are still made with a 17th Century reductionist mindset and approach. Yet, complex challenges such as climate change, poverty, public health, security, energy futures, and...

Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is all about making choices in the presence of multiple conflicting criteria. MCDM has become one of the most important and fastest growing subfields of Operations Research/Management Science. As modern MCDM...

This book examines the field of behavioral economics and provides insights into the following questions:The book looks at decision making and behavior from the point of view of (i) individual behavior and choice; (ii) group and interactive choice; and...

Decision-making is a process of choosing from possible courses of action in order to attain goals and objectives. Nobel laureate Herbert Simon wrote that the whole process of managerial decision-making is synonymous with the practice of management...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788202234232Author Steinar BjartveitFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Cappelen Damm AkademiskPublisher Cappelen Damm AkademiskWeight(grams) 614g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788180561429Author Steve KneelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Leads PressPublisher B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 250g

When the status quo no longer works, the contrarian perspective reigns! In this innovative business how-to, leadership expert Marcia Daszko draws on her expertise to guide leaders at any level through a process to radically improve their businesses:...

Count the number of times you've said "no" to an idea. Whether you inadvertently put out a spark of brilliance or nixed a nonstarter, your response took away someone else's opportunity to feel heard. And that's an innovation killer. No one...

In today's business world, change of many kinds - technological, economic, social and environmental - is outpacing the ability of organizations to predict it and manage it. As a result, the single most important capacity any company can develop is the...

Have you ever experienced a decision situation that was hard to come to grips with? Did you ever feel a need to improve your decision-making skills? Is this something where you feel that you have not learned enough practical and useful methods? In that...

What, exactly, is leadership? Leadership is about motivating a group of people to achieve a common goal. Ever since the dawn of the field of leadership, people have craved an understanding of invisible mental processes that underlie visible behavior. Why...

Using a new, systematic framework, this illuminating book turns ideation into a task anybody with sound logic and a determination to learn can do, and do well, by separating the process from the outcome.In a competitive marketplace, all firms must...

This book is about action learning in the service of social action and social change. The contributors are all engaged in developing new approaches to the wicked problems found in the world today, including the climate emergency, the circular economy,...

- Shows how to negotiate SOA decision making using machine learning methods and tools - Presents SOA in relation to application scenarios - Considers SOA-based services using ML, deep learning and reinforcement learning approaches - Offers a solution for...

- Shows how to negotiate SOA decision making using machine learning methods and tools - Presents SOA in relation to application scenarios - Considers SOA-based services using ML, deep learning and reinforcement learning approaches - Offers a solution for...

Now in its third edition, Cost-Benefit Analysis has been updated, offering readers the perfect introduction to project, programme and policy appraisal using basic tools of financial and economic analysis.The key economic questions of any social...

Fast track route to mastering the art of competitor intelligence Covers the fundamentals of competitor intelligence, from securing CEO buy-in and making sure the right people are in place to creating an internal intelligence system and setting up a...

The marketing process is beset by dilemmas and Marketing Across Cultures is a cornerstone book in the Culture for Business series. Trompenaars and Woolliams show how we can understand different markets and customer needs in a wide range of cultural...

This book reviews both successful and unsuccessful mergers and acquisitions, exploring the reasons why so many fail to live up to expectations. An exploration of why mergers and acquisitions succeed or fail, based on rigorous scholarly research...

This book brings together insights and perspectives from leading medical, legal and business professionals, as well as academics and other members of civil society, on the threats and opportunities to life during the Covid19 pandemic. It provides a...

This book brings together insights and perspectives from leading medical, legal and business professionals, as well as academics and other members of civil society, on the threats and opportunities to life during the Covid19 pandemic. It provides a...

Increasingly, companies are being judged by their performance in terms of Environmental Social Governance (ESG). But exactly what does it mean, and what should be done about it? While much ambiguity exists, it is no longer sufficient to negotiate the...

Managers in organisation have to make rational decisions. Being the opposite of intuitive decision making, rational decision making is a strict procedure utilising objective knowledge and logic. It involves identifying the problem to solve, gathering...