Category Archives: Decision-Making & Problem Solving

Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work (Wiley and SAS Business Series)

Get your organization’s expertise out of its silos and make it flow-with lessons from over a decade of experience Looking at knowledge management in a holistic way, Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work puts the proper … Continue reading

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Strategic Learning: How to Be Smarter Than Your Competition and Turn Key Insights into Competitive Advantage

How to use Strategic Learning to rapidly respond to change and gain a sustainable advantage over your competitors What’s even harder than creating a breakthrough strategy? Making it stick. As companies are fighting to survive in a tough economy, this … Continue reading

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Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance

It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain … Continue reading

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The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty

A must-read for anyone who makes business decisions that have a major financial impact. As the recent collapse on Wall Street shows, we are often ill-equipped to deal with uncertainty and risk. Yet every day we base our personal and … Continue reading

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Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology (Premier Reference Source)

The information economy continues to challenge businesses in many ways with information technologies and globalization leading to blurred the organizational boundaries. Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments: Creating Information System Ecology provides greater understanding of issues, challenges, trends, and … Continue reading

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The Deciding Factor: The Power of Analytics to Make Every Decision a Winner

Praise for The Deciding Factor “Both companies and governments have made some poor decisions recently, and almost all would benefit from more fact-based and analytical approaches. This book provides clear methods and extensive examples for organizations that want to make … Continue reading

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Decision Options: The Art and Science of Making Decisions (Chapman & Hall/Crc Finance)

Although uncertainty and flexibility are important attributes that drive the value of an investment, they are seldom systematically considered in traditional financial analysis. Through theory and case studies, Decision Options: The Art and Science of Making Decisions details how uncertainty … Continue reading

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Engineering for Business: Theory and Cases

Engineering for Business features teaching materials and case studies developed for senior undergraduate courses in engineering and business and graduate-level classes in Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering and Management, and Technology Management.

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How We Decide

Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we “blink” and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, … Continue reading

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One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making

Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book-written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business … Continue reading

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