Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Decision Making & Problem Solving

IIE/Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award 2016

Awarded for 'an outstanding published book that focuses on a facet of industrial engineering, improves education, or furthers the profession'.

Engineering Decision Making and Risk Management emphasizes practical issues and examples of decision making with applications in engineering design and management

Featuring a blend of theoretical and analytical aspects, this book presents multiple perspectives on decision making to better understand and improve risk management processes and...

Be a more effective leader with strategic thinking

Leading with Strategic Thinking reveals what effective leaders do differently. Eschewing the one-size-fits-all leadership model, this helpful guide outlines four general leadership types and demonstrates how each type achieves success - whether through personal vision, structured process, collaboration, or by empowering others. The authors identify the actions and skills that distinguish strategic leadership, drawn from interviews and focus groups with over three hundred leaders from around the world. Examples and case...

The proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any organization's DNA to drive sustainable growth

In today's ultra-competitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist.

Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of "the elite few" and into the company culture as whole. It offers a simple, proven approach to analyzing and solving old or new challenges and provides a common language anyone at any level in the organization...

Anyone with executive responsibilities - entrepreneurs, business managers, directors of large organizations, even parents - needs to be focused, in command, and able to make wise decisions at any moment.

Psychologist Michael Kahn interviewed 62 successful executives to understand how they think, react, plan, and even relax. These are not corporate secrets. The key is getting in better touch with your personal operating system and developing strategies to coordinate your mind, body, and emotions to produce an ideal, efficient, executive-performance state.

Anyone can learn and...

Advice involves recommendations on what to think; through thought, on what to choose; and via choices, on how to act. Advice is information that moves by communication, from advisors to the recipient of advice.

Ivan Jureta offers a general way to analyze advice. The analysis applies regardless of what the advice is about and from whom it comes or to whom it needs to be given, and it concentrates on the production and consumption of advice independent of the field of application. It is made up of two intertwined parts, a conceptual analysis and an analysis of the rationale of advice....

How do you, as a busy security executive or manager, stay current with evolving issues, familiarize yourself with the successful practices of your peers, and transfer this information to build a knowledgeable, skilled workforce the times now demand? With Security Leader Insights for Success, a collection of timeless leadership best practices featuring insights from some of the nation's most successful security practitioners, you can.

This book can be used as a quick and effective resource to bring your security staff up to speed on leadership issues. Instead of re-inventing...

Anyone with executive responsibilities - entrepreneurs, business managers, directors of large organizations, even parents - needs to be focused, in command, and able to make wise decisions at any moment.

Psychologist Michael Kahn interviewed 62 successful executives to understand how they think, react, plan, and even relax. These are not corporate secrets. The key is getting in better touch with your personal operating system and developing strategies to coordinate your mind, body, and emotions to produce an ideal, efficient, executive-performance state.

Anyone can learn and...

An executive-level strategic guide to maximizing financial, service, and operations performance using the proven RightStock model of inventory management

In most organizations, highly qualified professionals are required to respond to a barrage of typically uncoordinated initiatives from across the organization. Those initiatives normally include increasing SKUs, customization, and inventory availability while reducing customer response times, transportation costs, purchase costs, and manufacturing costs.

This is a major rework of Paul Newendorp's 1975 best-seller, which became the standard reference in the field. This book is now structured as a handbook of over 330 important concepts in risk and economic decision analysis. As the title suggests, well over half the examples apply to petroleum exploration investment decisions. Perhaps 80% of the topics are generally applicable to capital investment, project management, and operations decisions.

Topics in the book represent a composite of evaluation practices and problem-solving approaches now commonly used in oil & gas and other...

Optimize Your Greatest Asset -- Your People brings advanced analytics into Human Resources, giving you a framework for optimizing human capital investments through predictive analysis. You'll learn how to transition from anecdotes and surveys to more advanced measurement techniques, and combine the data from multiple systems into a unified plan of action that improves business results. Practical examples and case studies show how these techniques are applied in real-world settings, and executives and...

TRIZ steht fur "Theorie des erfinderischen Problemlosens" und folgt dem Leitgedanken, Problemstellungen zu strukturieren und dadurch Losungszeiten zu verkurzen. Die Werkzeuge unterstutzen Konstrukteure und Entwickler, neue Produktideen umzusetzen und patentfahige Konzepte zu realisieren. Damit hilft TRIZ Entscheidungstragern, die Produktivitat in ihrem Verantwortungsbereich zu steigern.

What if I told you that from the time you were a small child, all the way through to today, there was something unique inside you, something that no other person on this planet possessed?

Think of it almost as a fire, a spark, a passion ... the very reason you were put on this earth to begin with.

Yet, I must ask: "Are you living there? Are you in that place of passion and calling?"

Or does it feel instead like quicksand? Like you're trapped in a...

This book is a concise and innovative book that gives a complete presentation of the design and analysis of experiments in approximately one-half the space of competing books. With only the modest prerequisite of a basic (non-calculus) statistics course, this text is appropriate for the widest possible audience, including college juniors, seniors, and first-year graduate students in business, the sciences, and statistics, as well as professionals in business and industry. This book is a concise and innovative book that gives a complete presentation of the design and analysis of experiments...