Decision analysis for management judgment

In an increasingly complex world, decision analysis plays a key role in helping managers gain a greater understanding of the situations they face. This updated classic offers unrivalled coverage of the problems associated with unaided managerial decision making and the methods designed to overcome them ...

Performance drivers

a practical guide to using the balanced scorecard

A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard performance drivers Nils-Goran Olve, Jan Roy and Magnus Wetter Since the groundbreaking work of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has achieved increasing popularity in the business world. Previously, many ...

Advances in understanding strategic behaviour

Game Theory, experiments and bounded rationality: essays in honour of Werner Güth

This volume contains sixteen original articles documenting recent progress in understanding strategic behaviour. In their variety they reflect an entire spectrum of coexisting approaches: from orthodox game theory via behavioral game theory, bounded rationality and economic psychology to experimental economics. There are plenty of new ...

The psychology of economic decisions

Vol. I: Rationality and well-being

Psychologists and economists often ask similar questions about human behaviour. This volume brings together contributions from leaders in both disciplines. The editorial introduction discusses methodological differences between the two which have until now limited the development of mutually beneficial lines of research. Psychologists have objected ...

Managerial economics for decision making

Managerial Economics for Decision Making is an ideal text for final year undergraduate and MBA students taking a module in Managerial Economics. It places managerial economics firmly in the context of decision making and provides students with the tools to use economic theory to make ...

Be a successful consultant

an insider guide to setting up and runnig a consultancy practice

Essentials of business research methods

Corporate information strategy and management

text and cases

The success case method

find out quickly what's working and what's not

Numbers guide

the essentials of business numeracy

Business intelligence

técnicas de análisis para la toma de decisiones

Management decision making

towards an integrative approach

The text will be a valuable guide for students either intending to, or pursuing a career in Management. It is suitable for advanced level undergraduate Business and Management degrees as well as postgraduate courses. Practising managers would also find the book a useful reference to ...

Aprender mediación

Este libro explica con lenguaje sencillo, concreto y riguroso qué es y para qué sirve la mediación: los conceptos esenciales, las técnicas y estrategias de mayor uso y eficacia, la bibliografía específica, el vocabulario de la mediación, las referencias legales y los consejos prácticos para ...

Visión y gestión empresarial

cómo articular las estrategias y el capital humano para triunfar en la economía del conocimiento

En la era de la Economía del Conocimiento, el presente texto constituye un esfuerzo perceptible por presentar de una manera clara y accesible un enfoque práctico para aumentar la capacidad de visualización de los líderes y agentes decisores, guiar el establecimiento de prioridades con sentido ...

Total performance scorecard

redefining management to achieve performance with integrity

In the post-Enron climate corporate executives are increasingly pressured to increase productivity and create an ethical, trustworthy organizational climate. This book introduces a concept of organizational improvement and change management that combines the balanced scorecard model with the learning organization theory. The book offers a ...

Dealmaking

using Monte Carlo and real options analysis

Real Options Analysis (ROA) and Monte Carlo Analysis (MCA) are two of today#s most significant tools in the valuation and negotiation of high- potential-value, high-ambiguity deals. Dealmaking Using Real Options and Monte Carlo Analysis outlines a new approach for creating flexible, practical valuation models ...

Collaborative customer relationship management

taking CRM to the next level

Driven by rapidly changing business environments and increasingly demanding consumers, many organizations are searching for new ways to achieve and retain a competitive advantage via customer intimacy and CRM. In this context, new strategic frameworks and cooperation with everybody along the whole value chain are ...

Quantitative models for performance evaluation and benchmarking

data development analysis with spreadsheets and DEA Excel solver

It is difficult to evaluate an organization's performance when there are multiple inputs and multiple outputs to the system. The difficulties are further enhanced when the relationships between the inputs and the outputs are complex and involve unknown tradeoffs. This work introduces DEA as ...

The theory of search games and rendezvous

Search Theory is one of the classic methodological disciplines in operations research and applied mathematics. It deals with the problem faced by a searcher who wishes to minimize the time required to find a hidden object. Traditionally, the target of the search is assigned to ...

Statistical process control

Statistical process control is a tool which enables both manufacturers and suppliers to achieve control of product quality by means of the application of statistical methods in the controlling process. This book gives the foundations of good quality management and process control, including an explanation ...