Decision making for technology executives : using multiple perspectives to improved performance /
Linstone, Harold A.
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. .
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.
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Electronic reproduction.
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HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English.
1580532160 (electronic bk.) 9781580532167 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper)
Decision making.
Technology--Management.
Decision Making
Prise de décision.
Technologie--Gestion.
decision making.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Decision-Making & Problem Solving.
Decision making.
Technology--Management.
Civil & Environmental Engineering.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
Operations Research.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
T57.95 / .L55 1999eb
658.4/03
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. .
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.
Use copy
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
1580532160 (electronic bk.) 9781580532167 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper)
Decision making.
Technology--Management.
Decision Making
Prise de décision.
Technologie--Gestion.
decision making.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Decision-Making & Problem Solving.
Decision making.
Technology--Management.
Civil & Environmental Engineering.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
Operations Research.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
T57.95 / .L55 1999eb
658.4/03