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Decision making for technology executives : using multiple perspectives to improved performance / Harold A. Linstone.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Artech House technology management and professional development libraryPublication details: Boston : Artech House, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 315 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1580532160
  • 9781580532167
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Decision making for technology executives.DDC classification:
  • 658.4/03 21
LOC classification:
  • T57.95 .L55 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The Usual Perspective and Its Limitations -- The Problem-Solution View -- Optimization or the "Best" Solution Search -- Reductionism -- Reliance on Data and Models -- Quantification -- Objectivity -- Ignoring or Avoiding the Individual -- Perceptions of Time -- Our Proposed Perspectives -- The Technical Perspective -- The Organizational Perspective -- The Personal Perspective -- T + O + P: Characteristics and Comparisons -- Integration of Perspectives -- Linkages and the Interactions of Perspectives -- Other Perspectives -- Illustrations from the Public Sector -- Military Technology -- Local Crisis: The Mount St. Helens Eruption (Clary) -- Denver International Airport (Szyliowicz and Goetz) -- Other Cultural Contexts -- Illustrations from the Private Sector -- The Willamette Falls Hydroelectric Project (Hawke) -- Electronic System Market: Failure of a Strategy (Cook) -- Commercial Aircraft: The Wide-Body Trijets -- Trading: The Stock Market -- Technology: Risk and Assessment -- Perspectives on Risk -- The Alaska Oil Spill -- The Bhopal Chemical Accident (Bowonder and Linstone) -- On the Nuclear Accidents -- Implications and Prospects -- Technology: Forecasting and Planning -- The Discounting Dilemma -- Forecasting -- Planning -- Looking Ahead: Complexity Science, Chaos, and Multiple Perspectives -- Complex Adaptive Systems -- Limits on Forecasting -- Modeling -- Perspectives on Business Organizations -- Areas of Research -- Guidelines for the User -- Seven Guidelines (Linstone and Meltsner) -- Sample Work Plan.
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The Usual Perspective and Its Limitations -- The Problem-Solution View -- Optimization or the "Best" Solution Search -- Reductionism -- Reliance on Data and Models -- Quantification -- Objectivity -- Ignoring or Avoiding the Individual -- Perceptions of Time -- Our Proposed Perspectives -- The Technical Perspective -- The Organizational Perspective -- The Personal Perspective -- T + O + P: Characteristics and Comparisons -- Integration of Perspectives -- Linkages and the Interactions of Perspectives -- Other Perspectives -- Illustrations from the Public Sector -- Military Technology -- Local Crisis: The Mount St. Helens Eruption (Clary) -- Denver International Airport (Szyliowicz and Goetz) -- Other Cultural Contexts -- Illustrations from the Private Sector -- The Willamette Falls Hydroelectric Project (Hawke) -- Electronic System Market: Failure of a Strategy (Cook) -- Commercial Aircraft: The Wide-Body Trijets -- Trading: The Stock Market -- Technology: Risk and Assessment -- Perspectives on Risk -- The Alaska Oil Spill -- The Bhopal Chemical Accident (Bowonder and Linstone) -- On the Nuclear Accidents -- Implications and Prospects -- Technology: Forecasting and Planning -- The Discounting Dilemma -- Forecasting -- Planning -- Looking Ahead: Complexity Science, Chaos, and Multiple Perspectives -- Complex Adaptive Systems -- Limits on Forecasting -- Modeling -- Perspectives on Business Organizations -- Areas of Research -- Guidelines for the User -- Seven Guidelines (Linstone and Meltsner) -- Sample Work Plan.

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