Decision making using game theory

an introduction for managers

Game theory is a key element in most decision making processes involving two or more people or organisations. This book explains how game theory can predict the outcome of complex decision making processes, and how it can help you to improve your own negotiation and ...

Understanding knowledge management

critical and postmodern perspectives

Knowledge management has emerged as a new perspective on organizations. Conceiving of firms as being based on their capacity to create, distribute and make use of knowledge, Knowledge Management theory takes an alternative view of the nature of the firm. Understanding Knowledge Management presents an ...

Satisficing games and decision making

with applications to engineering and computer science

In our day-to-day lives we constantly make decisions which are simply #good enough# rather than optimal. Most computer-based decision making algorithms, on the other hand, doggedly seek only the optimal solution based on rigid criteria and reject any others. In this book, Professor Stirling outlines ...

Dominar el cuadro de mando integral

manual práctico basado en más de 100 experiencias

#El libro dispone de una gran cantidad de experiencias actuales. Representa una importante aportación a la literatura dedicada al management.# Robert S. Kaplan, profesor de Leadership Development, Harvard Business School y director de Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Boston. #La implementación del Cuadro de Mando Integral representa ...

The practice of business statistics

using data for decisions

This text and CD-ROM immerses students in the course immediately, involving them in practical, statistics-supported business decision making from the outset. Using real data to provide a context for tackling modern business problems, the book introduces a range of core ideas early including data production ...

Workfolw management wip SAP WebFlow

a practical manual

It is now possible to gain competitive advantages based on consolidated R/3 system implementations. One of the most important optimisation aspects is a more consistent process integration in order to bring about fast, secure and cost effective business processes. This approach inevitably leads to ...

Distributed decision making

Distributed decision making (DDM) has become of increasing importance in quantitative decision analysis. In applications like supply chain management, service operations, or managerial accounting, DDM has led to a paradigm shift. The book provides a unified approach to such seemingly diverse fields as multi-level stochastic ...

Análisis económico financiero de las decisiones de gestión empresarial

Esta obra contiene una amplia guía de los conceptos y de los instrumentos sobre los que deben basarse las decisiones directivas y que constituyen los fundamentos claves del análisis económico-financiero del management empresarial.

Arte y oficio de la simulación

un entorno completo y su uso en la mejora de los servicios

El lenguaje de la Simulación, ¿para qué sirve? La simulación es una herramienta útil y fácil de usar, especialmente con ordenadores modernos. La Simulación se plantea sobre tres patas: Problema, Modelo, Programa. Es decir, alguien tiene un problema, se diseña un modelo para analizarlo, y ...

Systems thinking

creative holism for managers

Too often, today#s managers are sold simple solutions to complex problems. But as many soon discover, simplicity is rarely effective in the face of complexity, change and diversity. Despite apparent promise, quick-fix panaceas fail because they are not holistic or creative enough. They focus ...

Managing projects in organizations

how to make the best use of time, techniques, and people

In this third edition of Managing Projects in Organizations, J. Davidson Frame updates and expands on his classic book to provide an accessible introduction to the field of project management. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of consulting and training experience, Frame's most current ...

Métodos cuantitavos para la toma de deciciones

En este libro se trata el uso de modelos cuantitavos en la resolución de problemas de gestión y administración de sistemas complejos, con especial énfasis en la toma de decisiones. Ha sido escrito para dos tipos de usuarios: para los directivos que pueden sacar provecho ...

Fuzzy logic in management

Fuzzy Logic In Management demonstrates that difficult problems and changes in the management environment can be more easily handled by bringing fuzzy logic into the practice of management INDICE Chapter 1, "Management and Intelligent Support Technologies", is a short survey of management leadership and what ...

Guide to management research methods

An introductory textbook for all students of organizations. Organizational scientists must be able to conduct reliable research on the basis of empirical field data, and to argue the soundness or validity of their research approach, either as a researcher within a university or research institute ...

Smart business metrics

measure what really counts and manage what makes the difference

Understanding your organization#s key performance drivers is crucial to the success of your business. Too often, the wrong operating targets are set, and bad targets can bring bad performance. Smart Business Metrics provides the tools that will enable you to make strategic decisions based ...

Time management

Effective time management is one of today's most overlooked--yet essential --keys to career growth in business and management. Time Management provides hands-on techniques and tools for making every minute count as it dispels myths that can actually cost instead of save valuable time. It ...

Aplicación de las técnicas de la ingeniería del conocimiento en el proceso de toma de decisiones empresariales en materia de gestión medioambiental

Why not?

how to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small

Robert F. Kennedy challenged us to "dream of things that never were and say, Why not?" Why Not? is a primer for fresh business thinking, for problem solving with a purpose, for bringing the world a few steps closer to the way it should be ...

Los desafíos de la competitividad

la innovación organizativa y tecnológica de la empresa española

Ed. Emilio Huerta Arribas. Conocer la naturaleza y extensión de los cambios tecnológicos y las innovaciones organizativas, describir las nuevas prácticas de gestión de los recursos humanos, analizar los factores asociados a su implantación y reconocer las estrategias que las empresas españolas utilizan para mejorar ...

High-involvement innovation

building and sustaining competitive advantage through continuous change

Provides a framework for thinking about and organizing a culture of continuous innovation. Based on ten years of research with over 200 organizations.