This highly-esteemed text introduces readers to the key ideas of modeling and management decision making that will be important to them throughout their careers. Addressing the needs of readers interested in both business administration and decision science careers, the book provides a conceptual foundation for all topics and the role of spreadsheet modeling techniques in the larger context of …
In the sciences of operations research and decision theory, the study of multicriteria decision--aid has seen considerable development in the last ten years. The author provides a concise and rigorous presentation of the concepts and procedures of this method.
This text brings together two methodological strands of systems thinking. These are the managerial problem solving methodology of System Dynamics (SD) and, the various methodologies available to structured development of management information system (MIS). The work described arose out of a research study supervised by Professor E.F. Wolstenholme and conducted jointly between Bradford Universit…