ilość książek w kategorii: 4232
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Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
ISBN: 9780071494939 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are thousands of books about thinking. But there are very few books that provide clear how-to information that can actually help you think better. Think Better is about Productive Thinking -- why it's important, how it works, and how to use it at work, at home, and at play. Productive Thinking is a game changer -- a practical, easy-to-learn, repeatable process that helps people understand more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively. It's based on the thinking strategies that people we celebrate for their creativity have been using for centuries.... There are thousands of books about thinking. But there are very few books that provide clear how-to information that can actually help you think... |
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145,83 zł |
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The Risk Ranking Technique in Decision Making
ISBN: 9780080372129 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book develops a comprehensive approach, known as the Ranking Technique, for the assessment of decision options. It aims to provide a way of presenting a decision maker with a consistent method of making a thorough assessment of all the factors associated with complex decisions. The Ranking Technique is based on a detailed analysis of all the issues involved and presents the results in a simple manner which should be understandable by the lay public not versed in the complexities of the issues involved. Ranking Technique is illustrated by application to four major decisions that have...
This book develops a comprehensive approach, known as the Ranking Technique, for the assessment of decision options. It aims to provide a way of prese...
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547,40 zł |
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Systems Perspectives on Resources, Capabilities, and Management Processes
ISBN: 9780080437781 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume explains essential systems concepts and their central role in current ideas about organizational competence. Papers in the volume apply systems concepts to: modelling practical management problems; reconceptualizing the nature of organizations and their internal processes; improving managerial sensemaking capabilities in complex environments; devising simple rules for reducing and managing organizational complexity.
The volume explains essential systems concepts and their central role in current ideas about organizational competence. Papers in the volume apply sys...
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516,06 zł |
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Info-Gap Decision Theory : Decisions Under Severe Uncertainty
ISBN: 9780123735522 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone makes decisions, but not everyone is a decision analyst. A decision analyst uses quantitative models and computational methods to formulate decision algorithms, assess decision performance, identify and evaluate options, determine trade-offs and risks, evaluate strategies for investigation, and so on. Info-Gap Decision Theory is written for decision analysts. The term "decision analyst" covers an extremely broad range of practitioners. Virtually all engineers involved in design (of buildings, machines, processes, etc.) or analysis (of safety, reliability,... Everyone makes decisions, but not everyone is a decision analyst. A decision analyst uses quantitative models and computational methods to formulat... |
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760,84 zł |
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Essence of Creativity : A Guide to Tackling Difficult Problems
ISBN: 9780195060171 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging problems both attract and repel us. They frustrate us, accelerate our pulses, cause ulcers, and perhaps even curtail our lifespans. On the other hand, the knotty problems of life offer us food for thought, sustaining our creativity, and adding emotional spice to the human experience. We encounter difficult tasks day in and day out. The solutions to these problems must be sought with resourcefulness and creativity, for until now we have had little insight into the nature of these tasks, and even less into methods for resolving them. This unique book explores the nature of...
Challenging problems both attract and repel us. They frustrate us, accelerate our pulses, cause ulcers, and perhaps even curtail our lifespans. On the...
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1444,84 zł |
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The Knowing Organization: How Organizations Use Information to Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions
ISBN: 9780195176780 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating new research and examples throughout, the second edition of The Knowing Organization links the broad areas of organizational behavior and information management. It looks at how organizations behave as information-seeking, information-creating, and information-using communities and introduces a unifying framework to show how organizations create meaning, knowledge, and action.
The book provides a model of how organizations use information strategically to adapt to external change and to foster internal growth. This model examines how people and groups within... Integrating new research and examples throughout, the second edition of The Knowing Organization links the broad areas of organizational beha...
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1136,51 zł |
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The Logic Of Failure : Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations
ISBN: 9780201479485 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Dorner identifies what he calls the "logic of failure"--certain tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now. Working with imaginative and often hilarious computer simulations, he analyzes the roots of catastrophe, showing city planners in the very act of creating gridlock and disaster, or public health authorities setting the scene for...
Why do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, ...
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88,92 zł |
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Interorganizational Decision Making
ISBN: 9780202309262 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As organizations have grown in scale and scope of activities, so have social pressures on every aspect of organizational activity from personnel policies to waste disposal practices. This volume is a rare example of a multidisciplinary approach to an important theoretical problem-the proper means of interorganizational decision making in light of these new pressures. This complex subject is here attacked by nineteen prominent behavioral scientists from a variety of disciplines.
As organizations have grown in scale and scope of activities, so have social pressures on every aspect of organizational activity from personnel polic...
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225,38 zł |
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Statistical Analysis for Public and Nonprofit Managers
ISBN: 9780275933012 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for use by professionals and graduate-level students in public administration and not-for-profit management, this is a comprehensive, clearly written guide to the use of statistical analysis in the management of nonprofit organizations. The volume emphasizes statistical models that use more than one variable and is unique in presenting multivariate statistics specifically with the public and nonprofit manager in mind. Examples throughout have been chosen to be relevant to the not-for-profit organization and each chapter contains several real-life illustrations of how statistical... Designed for use by professionals and graduate-level students in public administration and not-for-profit management, this is a comprehensive, clea... |
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581,72 zł |
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Decision-Making under Uncertainty : An Applied Statistics Approach
ISBN: 9780275935696 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In real-life decision-making situations it is necessary to make decisions with incomplete information, for oftentimes uncertain results. In "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty," Dr. Chacko applies his years of statistical research and experience to the analysis of twenty-four real-life decision-making situations, both those with few data points (eg: Cuban Missile Crisis), and many data points (eg: aspirin for heart attack prevention). These situations encompass decision-making in a variety of business, social and political, physical and biological, and military environments. Though... In real-life decision-making situations it is necessary to make decisions with incomplete information, for oftentimes uncertain results. In "Decisi... |
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581,72 zł |
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Groupware in the 21st Century : Computer Supported Cooperative Working Toward the Millennium
ISBN: 9780275950927 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the 21st century nears, networked computing is becoming the essence of computing itself. Alternative phrases abound--collaborative work, computer supported cooperative work, simultaneous/concurrent engineering, multimedia real-time interactive work--but the neatest, shortest, and simplest catch-all term was coined in 1978: groupware. The two visionaries who coined the term, Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz, are among the 42 expert contributors to Groupware in the 21st Century. Other contributors to the volume include Microsoft's Bill Gates, professors Jay Nunamaker and Tom Malone, and... As the 21st century nears, networked computing is becoming the essence of computing itself. Alternative phrases abound--collaborative work, compute... |
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246,06 zł |
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A Field Guide to Good Decisions : Values in Action
ISBN: 9780275989378 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all face tough choices: business executives, community leaders, and family members all struggle with difficult decisions on a daily basis. What we decide reveals what really matters to us; how we decide determines whether we succeed or fail. Developed over twenty years in settings as diverse as hospital bedsides and corporate boardrooms, "A Field Guide to Good Decisions" provides the skills to make decisions that reflect your core values while respecting those of others, including the long-term implications for all participants. Illustrated through many real-life examples that will... We all face tough choices: business executives, community leaders, and family members all struggle with difficult decisions on a daily basis. What ... |
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307,71 zł |
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Prediction and Optimal Decision : Philosophical Issues of a Science of Values
ISBN: 9780313234187 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this personal estimate of the methodological problems of determining human values, the author bases his thoughts on the idea that the greatest unsolved problem of exploration lies in the study of human's real wants. The book examines critically the distinction between science and ethics by outlining an approach to scientific verification of ethical judgments.
In this personal estimate of the methodological problems of determining human values, the author bases his thoughts on the idea that the greatest u... |
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581,72 zł |
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
ISBN: 9780316010665 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, the author shows how the difference between good and bad decision-making has nothing to do with how much information can be processed quickly, but on the few particular details on which people focus.
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, the author shows how the difference between good and bad decision-making has nothing to do with h...
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92,91 zł |
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Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
ISBN: 9780316011785 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in...
In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the w...
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146,79 zł |
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Decision Aids for Selection Problems
ISBN: 9780387945606 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most important tasks faced by decision-makers in business and government is that of selection. Selection problems are challenging in that they require the balancing of multiple, often conflicting, criteria. In recent years, a number of interesting decision aids have become available to assist in such decisions.
The aim of this book is to provide a comparative survey of many of the decision aids currently available. The first chapters present general ideas which underpin the methodologies used to design these aids. Subsequent chapters then focus on specific decision aids and... One of the most important tasks faced by decision-makers in business and government is that of selection. Selection problems are challenging in that t...
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805,43 zł |
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Readings in Decision Analysis
ISBN: 9780412321702 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides an introduction to decision analysis. This book is based upon a number of papers and articles taken from the Operational Research Society's journal and other publications. However, the book is not simply a 'collection of reprints': Professor French has provided extensive notes and commentary to weave the extracts into a coherent whole. Although techniques are presented, the main thrust is to convey the purpose of decision analysis and the interpretation that should be placed upon its output: vital topics, but ones seldom discussed in introductory texts. The writing is aimed at the...
Provides an introduction to decision analysis. This book is based upon a number of papers and articles taken from the Operational Research Society's j...
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422,64 zł |
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Network Optimization
ISBN: 9780412556708 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Topics include optimal branching problems, trans-shipment problems, shortest path problems, minimum cost flow problems, maximum flow problems, matching in bipartite and nonbipartite graphs, and applications to combinatorics.
Topics include optimal branching problems, trans-shipment problems, shortest path problems, minimum cost flow problems, maximum flow problems, matchin...
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377,55 zł |
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Managing Professional Identities : Knowledge, Performativities and the 'New' Professional
ISBN: 9780415231206 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text addresses the nature of shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability.
This text addresses the nature of shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability.
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732,67 zł |
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Environmental Management Plans Demystified : A Guide to ISO14001
ISBN: 9780415246644 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Avoiding environmental issues is no longer an option - increasing pressure from consumers, and environmental legislation are forcing businesses to take a more critical view of their environmental management procedures. The development of an environmental management plan is an essential business activity that helps organize, direct and control operational activities, and plan for future environmental risk. Once created, an environmental management plan is an ongoing asset that requires regular updating and enables benchmarking against company targets and competitors.
Avoiding environmental issues is no longer an option - increasing pressure from consumers, and environmental legislation are forcing businesses to tak...
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298,64 zł |