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Decision making for technology executives : using multiple perspectives to improved performance /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Linstone, Harold A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Artech House, ©1999.
Colección:Artech House technology management and professional development library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Usual Perspective and Its Limitations
  • The Problem-Solution View
  • Optimization or the "Best" Solution Search
  • Reductionism
  • Reliance on Data and Models
  • Quantification
  • Objectivity
  • Ignoring or Avoiding the Individual
  • Perceptions of Time
  • Our Proposed Perspectives
  • The Technical Perspective
  • The Organizational Perspective
  • The Personal Perspective
  • T + O + P: Characteristics and Comparisons
  • Integration of Perspectives
  • Linkages and the Interactions of Perspectives
  • Other Perspectives
  • Illustrations from the Public Sector
  • Military Technology
  • Local Crisis: The Mount St. Helens Eruption (Clary)
  • Denver International Airport (Szyliowicz and Goetz)
  • Other Cultural Contexts
  • Illustrations from the Private Sector
  • The Willamette Falls Hydroelectric Project (Hawke)
  • Electronic System Market: Failure of a Strategy (Cook)
  • Commercial Aircraft: The Wide-Body Trijets
  • Trading: The Stock Market
  • Technology: Risk and Assessment
  • Perspectives on Risk
  • The Alaska Oil Spill
  • The Bhopal Chemical Accident (Bowonder and Linstone)
  • On the Nuclear Accidents
  • Implications and Prospects
  • Technology: Forecasting and Planning
  • The Discounting Dilemma
  • Forecasting
  • Planning
  • Looking Ahead: Complexity Science, Chaos, and Multiple Perspectives
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Limits on Forecasting
  • Modeling
  • Perspectives on Business Organizations
  • Areas of Research
  • Guidelines for the User
  • Seven Guidelines (Linstone and Meltsner)
  • Sample Work Plan.