Decision Making category: 1513 books
Mind+Machine
A Decision Model for Optimizing and Implementing Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Cut through information overload to make better decisions faster
Success relies on making the correct decisions at the appropriate time, which is only possible if the decision maker has the necessary insights in a suitable format. Mind+Machine is the guide to getting the right insights in the...
Evidence-Based Management
How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Decisions in businesses and organizations are too often based on fads, fashions and the success stories of famous CEOs. At the same time, traditional models and new cutting-edge solutions often fail to deliver on what they promise. This situation leaves managers, business leaders, consultants and...
Mastering Project Portfolio Management
A Systems Approach to Achieving Strategic Objectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This unique text provides a holistic view of project portfolio management (PPM) that includes people, process, tools, and techniques that work synergistically within the organization to produce portfolio decisions with the best chance of success. It illustrates the entire PPM process from strategic planning...
Business Strategy
A guide to effective decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The effectiveness of a good strategy well implemented determines a business' future success or failure. Yet history is full of strategic decisions, big and small, that were ill-conceived, poorly organized and consequently disastrous. This updated guide looks at the whole process of strategic decision-making,...
Econophysics
Background and Applications in Economics, Finance, and Sociophysics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The remarkable evolution of econophysics research has brought the deep synthesis of ideas derived from economics and physics to subjects as diverse as education, banking, finance, and the administration of large institutions. The original papers in this collection present a broad summary of these...
Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
A compelling exploration of human thought processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide.
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, explores the fallacies that can impair human decision-making and...
Intelligent Disobedience
The Difference between Good and Great Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Obeying all of the rules rarely generates breakthrough business performance because it does not generate new approaches. Breaking the rules randomly does not work either. Intelligent disobedience values improved business performance over compliance with the rules, when conditions permit. This is the...
Life at the Speed of Passion
Create a Life of Intention, Purpose, and Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Life is a contact sport, and no one knows that better than Eve Wright, a dynamic professional sports executive, entrepreneur, and mother. But as our world grows increasingly complex, competitive, and confusing, life becomes less about the luxury of doing what we want and the necessity of doing what...
Analytics and Dynamic Customer Strategy
Big Profits from Big Data
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Key decisions determine the success of big data strategy
Dynamic Customer Strategy: Big Profits from Big Data is a comprehensive guide to exploiting big data for both business-to-consumer and business-to-business marketing. This complete guide provides a process for rigorous decision making...
How the Wise Decide
The Lessons of 21 Extraordinary Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Discover the formula used by twenty-one of the world’s most extraordinary leaders to make consistent and smart decisions.
How do the wise decide and lead businesses and organizations to great success is the question Bryn Zeckhauser and Aaron Sandoski posed to themselves after landing their...
Cultural Variations and Business Performance
Contemporary Globalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
By understanding how decision-making is best made in an era of very high competition greatly pressured by the constant speed of disruptive technologies, transcultural organizations in particular can increase sustainable profitability, thus creating a "trickle-down" effect throughout the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book combines chapters written by leading social psychologists and economists, illuminating the developing trends in explaining and understanding economic behavior in a social world.
It provides insights from both fields, communicated by eloquent scholars, and demonstrates through recent...
by Beatrice Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“Consensus” is a term that many people use to describe a vague process that somehow leads to general agreement. This book, written by Beatrice Briggs, an internationally recognized consultant who has been facilitating group processes for 25 years, clarifies what consensus is, what it is not and how...
Business Analytics for Managers
Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The intensified used of data based on analytical models to control digitalized operational business processes in an intelligent way is a game changer that continuously disrupts more and more markets. This book exemplifies this development and shows the latest tools and advances in this field
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