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Evidence-based decision-making : how to leverage available data and avoid cognitive biases /

Evidence-Based Decision-Making: How to Leverage Available Data and Avoid Cognitive Biases examines how a wide range of factual evidence, primarily derived from a variety of data available to organizations, can be used to improve the quality of business decision-making, by helping decision makers cir...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Banasiewicz, Andrew D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2019.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; PART I: Decision-Making Challenges; 1 Subjective Evaluations; Thinking and Games; Mind vs. Machine; Learning and Remembering; The Decision-Making Brain; 2 Non-Generalizable Objectivity; Familiar Clues; Anecdotal Evidence; Nonrepresentative Samples; 3 Mass Analytics; Digitization of Life; Data as the New Normal; Data in Organizations; The Analytics Industry; PART II: Evidence-Based Practice; 4 Evidence-Based Movement; The Practice and Science of Management; Evidence-Based Practice; The Road Ahead
  • 5 The Essence of EvidenceWhat is Evidence?; Empirical Evidence; Experiential Evidence; Internalizing Evidence; PART III: The Empirical & Experiential Evidence Framework; 6 Probabilistic Thinking; Decision Uncertainty; Evidence Pooling; Cross-Type Amalgamation; 7 The 3E Framework; Organizational Decision-Making; The Empirical & Experiential Evidence Framework; Insight Extraction; Believability of Evidence; 8 Sourcing & Assessing: Operational Data; Data, Research, and Decision-Making; Probabilistic Analyses of Organizational Data; Operational Data and Databases
  • Getting Started with Operational DataExploring Operational Data; Exploratory Data Analysis; Confirmatory Data Analysis; 9 Sourcing & Assessing: Research, Norms, and Judgment; Thematic Analyses of Empirical Research; Summarizing Norms & Standards; Pooling Expert Judgment; PART IV: Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Organizations; 10 Internal Design & Dynamics; Organizations as Human Collectives; Business Organizations; Organizations and Decision-Making; The 3E Framework & Organizational Dynamics; 11 External Forces & Influences; External Forces; Non-Systematic Influences
  • Appendix A: Cognitive BiasesAppendix B: Inter-Expert Reliability; Author Biography; Index