This book shows the reader how to improve decision-making skills in realistic situations and how to do it in a reasonably non-mathematical fashion. The author develops practical techniques for deciding upon the best strategies in a variety of situations. He provides methods for reducing complex problems to easily-drawn decision diagrams (trees), and supports them with real-life examples. Detailed cases that employ the methods described in the text are included, and each chapter contains illustrated examples and exercises. The text will be of interest to managers and students of engineering...