Linstone, Harold A. <br/><br/>
Decision making for technology executives :  using multiple perspectives to improved performance / 
Harold A. Linstone. 
 - Boston :  Artech House,  �1999. 
 - 1 online resource (xix, 315 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Artech House technology management and professional development library .
 - Artech House technology management and professional development library. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1580532160 9781580532167 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Decision making.<br/>Technology--Management.<br/>BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Decision-Making & Problem Solving.<br/>Decision making.<br/>Technology--Management.<br/>Civil & Environmental Engineering.<br/>Engineering & Applied Sciences.<br/>Operations Research.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T57.95  / .L55 1999eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.4/03