Successful Decision-making A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Grünig, Rudolf, Kühn, Richard (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2009, 2009
Edition:2nd ed. 2009
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • One: 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
  • Two: A general heuristic decision-making procedure
  • Overview of the decision-making procedure
  • Discovering and analyzing 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
  • Three: Special issues and approaches to resolving them.
  • Decision sequences
  • Information procurement decisions
  • Collective decisions