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Successful Decision-making

A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-15
  2. Introduction

    • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
    Pages 1-3
  3. Decision problems and decision-making procedures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
  4. Part One: Decision problems and decision-making procedures

    1. Decision problems

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 7-15
    2. Rational decisions

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 29-39
    3. Decision-making procedures

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 41-55
  5. A general heuristic decision-making procedure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-58
  6. Part Two: A general heuristic decision-making procedure

    1. Overview of the decision-making procedure

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 59-72
    2. Discovering and analyzing the decision problem

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 73-90
    3. Developing and evaluating options

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 91-114
    4. A case study illustrating the application of the procedure

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 149-170
  7. Special issues and approaches to resolving them

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-172
  8. Part Three: Special issues and approaches to resolving them.

    1. Decision sequences

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 173-184
    2. Information procurement decisions

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 185-196
    3. Collective decisions

      • Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn
      Pages 197-218
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 1-19

About this book

Making decisions is certainly the most important task of a manager and it is often a very difficult one. This book offers a decision making procedure for solving complex problems step by step. Unlike other texts, the book focuses on problem analysis, on developing solution options and on establishing the decision making matrix. The book is intended for decision makers in companies, in non-profit organisations and in public administration. It is an approach to helping them to solve complex problems successfully. The book is also addressed to students and to participants in executive courses.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Successful Decision-making

  • Book Subtitle: A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems

  • Authors: Rudolf Grünig, Richard Kühn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00854-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-00854-2Published: 01 September 2009

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 239

  • Number of Illustrations: 102 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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