Operations Research category: 1119 books
Unmasking Project Management
The Business Perspective of Information Systems Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Unmasking Project Management helps professionals in information technology (IT) and business identify successful approaches to management of information systems (MIS) that will work for their organizations and projects.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects. Projects come in many forms, often taking considerable time and consuming a large amount of resources....
Collaborative Promotions
Optimizing Retail Supply Chains with Upstream Information Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Promotions are at the same time beloved and feared by both food retailers and branded goods manufacturers in today’s retail environment. Beloved because they attract smart customers and generate an immediate effect on a brand’s sale. Feared because there is uncertainty about the competitors’...
Fire, Aim...Ready Contracts
The Start at the End Approach to Crushing Competition, Crafting Culture, and Cementing Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Over the course of my legal career, I have started companies, served as COO for a hugely successful software company, and started, managed, and run law firms. For 27 years, I have guided companies of every size and description -- from Mom 'n Pops to some of the most successful and recognized brands...
Chaos and Complexity Theory for Management
Nonlinear Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Although chaos theory refers to the existence between seemingly random events, it has been gaining the attention of science, technology and managements fields. The shift from traditional procedures to the dynamics of chaos and complexity theory has resulted in a new element of complexity thinking,...
Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process
Economic, Political, Social and Technological Applications with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Analytic Network Process (ANP), developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making, applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This new edition of Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process is a selection of the latest applications...
The Changing Paradigm of Consulting
Adjusting to the FastPaced World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The 13th volume in the RMC series, The Changing Paradigm of Consulting, is based on the best papers presented at the Academy of Management’s Management Consulting Division’s fourth international conference (2009) on the underlying dynamics within the fastpaced world of business and management consulting....
Making the Compelling Business Case
Decision-Making Techniques for Successful Business Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Providing the necessary background information and hands-on tools to build compelling business cases, this book will increase the reader's capability to champion new business development ideas, take them to senior management, and facilitate the decision process by understanding the key theories and practices of finance and corporate investments.
by Siqing Shan, Qi Yan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
This book mainly addresses the Emergency Response Decision Support System (ERDSS) and its applications, making use of ten related modules and a number of key technologies, especially Disaster Assessing Technology, Adaptive Information Evaluation Technology and Knowledge Management Technology. The...
Making Better Decisions Using Systems Thinking
How to stop firefighting, deal with root causes and deliver permanent solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book provides a framework to help managers go beyond simply fighting fires every day, offering the tools to address the underlying causes of recurring problems and deliver long-term solutions.
The most obvious part of any problem is the pain it causes. The desire to end the pain and find...
Modelling and Simulation in Management
Econometric Models Used in the Management of Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
This book is a comprehensive introduction of the reader into the simulation and modelling techniques and their application in the management of organisations. The book is rooted in the thorough understanding of systems theory applied to organisations and focuses on how this theory can apply to econometric...
Grouping Genetic Algorithms
Advances and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book presents advances and innovations in grouping genetic algorithms, enriched with new and unique heuristic optimization techniques. These algorithms are specially designed for solving industrial grouping problems where system entities are to be partitioned or clustered into efficient groups...
Operational Risk Management
The Integration of Decision, Communications, and Multimedia Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Advanced communications and information technologies provide the basis for operational risk management. In order to support managers in real-time risk assessment and decision-making, the advanced technologies must be complemented by an appropriate reasoning logic.
This book presents such a reasoning...
Visual Analytics for Management
Translational Science and Applications in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book provides students with an in-depth understanding of the concepts, frameworks and processes used to analyze and present visual data for better decision-making. Expert contributors provide guidance in translating complex concepts from large data sets and how this translation drives management...