Successful Decision-making A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems /

• Main Authors: Gr<U+00fc>nig, Rudolf. (Author), K<U+00fc>hn, Richard. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Economics.; Industrial management.; Economics/Management Science.; Management/Business for Professionals.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00854-2

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:

• Introduction
• 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 the 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
• Final remarks.