"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world as most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know.
The purpose of this text is to provide business students with an introduction to a range of methods for structuring decisions and problems, rather than solving them. All methods discussed are illustrated with case histories, which describe the sequence of events by which the method is applied
Integrating expert-system technology with decision-support technology, this study incorporates the progress made in knowledge-based DSS and related fields, and illustrates these advances with applications and cases in finance and management.
This do-it-yourself training module contains a trainer's guide, a participant's manual and a set of slides and handouts. It can be adapted to suit any organization and easily integrated into more comprehensive training sessions or programmes.
Creative thinking can provide fresh insights and new perspectives on the most routine elements in any job. This book shows how creative thinking skills can be developed more fully.
Flood introduces a dynamic new problem solving system called Total Systems Intervention (TSI). He provides a clear understanding of TSI in terms of its philosophy, principles and process, explaining what is happening when using this system and how to avoid the main pitfalls in problem solving with TSI. Describes the pros and cons of different catagories of consultants that may be used in the TS…
In the modern world organisations are faced with innumerable and multifaceted issues which cannot be captured in the minds of a few experts and solved with the aid of some super-method. It would be equally wrong to revert to a trial and error approach. We need to retain rigorous and formalised thinking, while admitting the need for a range of problem solving methodologies . The future prospects…
Problems with high stakes, involving human perceptions and judgements, and whose resolutions have long-term repercussions, call for a rational approach to their solution. Strategic Decision Making provides an effective, formal methodology that gives assistance to such strategic level decision making problems. Focusing on applying the AHP to decision-making problems in engineering, Strategic Dec…