Executive Decision Synthesis

Executive Decision Synthesis
Author: Victor Tang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319630261

This book provides a practice-driven, yet rigorous approach to executive management decision-making that performs well even under unpredictable conditions. It explains how executives can employ prescribed engineering design methods to arrive at robust outcomes even when faced with uncontrollable uncertainty. The book presents the paradigm and its main principles in Part I; in Part II it illustrates how to frame a decision situation and how to design the decision so that it will produce its intended behavior. In turn, Part III discusses in detail in situ case studies on executive management decisions. Lastly, Part IV summarizes the book and formulates the key lessons learned.

GAO Documents

GAO Documents
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1987-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.

Diagnostics for Strategic Decision-Making

Diagnostics for Strategic Decision-Making
Author: Joyce A. Thompsen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315474484

This book helps readers develop a comprehensive understanding of diagnostics for strategic decision-making, with a focus on a method called rapid due diligence. This method presents a compelling solution to the need for effective diagnostics, drawing on academic rigor, critical thinking, systems dynamics, and advanced practicum to enable sound strategic decision-making. Guiding the reader through the six stages of the process from discovery, through analysis, synthesis, and interpretation, Thompsen engages all typical postgraduate disciplines in producing insights for practical application. Drawing on similarities with applied social science research, the rapid due diligence method is supported with scores of techniques, tools, instructions, guidelines, practical advice, and examples. Detailed cases and abbreviated examples of a variety of real strategic situations are provided from organizations operating in North America, Europe, Asia, India, and Australia. Ideal for graduate students, organizational leaders, and decision makers, this book is designed to invite deeper understanding and practical application of a strategic diagnostic process that discovers insights for achieving positive results.

Concurrent Engineering

Concurrent Engineering
Author: Andrew Kusiak
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1993-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471554929

Presents a top-down approach to the design, development, testing and recyclability of products, components and systems across a wide range of industries. Starting with the desired result and working back through the details, it shows how to produce goods, taking into account the challenges of actual manufacture, what the reliability requirements should be, quality control, associated costs, customer needs and more. Additional features include case studies and team negotiating. Also well-illustrated with figures, photographs, charts and tables and includes an extensive bibliography.

Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized

Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized
Author: Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003-10-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781139439640

In Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized, Sternberg reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence. He argues that any serious understanding of intelligence must go beyond the standard paper and pencil tests currently in use. In addition to analytical and quantitative abilities, a theory of intelligence must take account of peoples' creative abilities - their ability to go beyond given information and imagine new and exciting ways of reformulating old problems. It must also take into account peoples' ability to weigh options carefully and act prudently. Understanding one's own intellectual shortcomings, and learning how to overcome, is as important as developing one's strengths. Sternberg develops a vision of human intelligence that is far more nuanced and accurate than anything previously offered. Wisdom, Intelligence and Creativity Synthesized will be essential reading for psychologists, cognitive scientists, educators, and organizational researchers.

Building Executive Information Systems and Other Decision Support Applications

Building Executive Information Systems and Other Decision Support Applications
Author: Hugh J. Watson
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This new book combines research findings and the practical experiences of the authors to present a comprehensive look at Executive Information Systems (EIS) and other decision support applications! From how EIS differs from other applications to what the future holds, this indispensable text covers everything readers need to know to understand and develop executive information systems. Coverage also includes Decision Support Systems, Artificial Intelligence (such as Expert Systems) and Groupware (such as Group Support Systems and Lotus Notes) to give readers a wide array of tools to support executive decision making.