Successful Decision-making A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems /

• Main Authors: Grünig, Rudolf (Author), Kühn, Richard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

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 establishin...

Table of Contents:

• 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.