TY - BOOK AU - Linstone,Harold A. TI - Decision making for technology executives: using multiple perspectives to improved performance T2 - Artech House technology management and professional development library SN - 1580532160 AV - T57.95 .L55 1999eb U1 - 658.4/03 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Boston PB - Artech House KW - Decision making KW - Technology KW - Management KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Decision-Making & Problem Solving KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - hilcc KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Operations Research KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=40369 ER -