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Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science 3rd edition [Pehme köide]

(Lancaster University)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 241x160x15 mm, kaal: 499 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2009
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0470721421
  • ISBN-13: 9780470721421
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 241x160x15 mm, kaal: 499 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2009
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0470721421
  • ISBN-13: 9780470721421
Teised raamatud teemal:
With over 30 years’ experience as a management teacher and consultant, Mike Pidd provides the tools for thinking that will help us to think through the consequences of decisions before we act.

The third edition of Tools for Thinking builds on the successes of the previous two editions. It creates a bridge between the soft and hard (Operations Research) OR schools of thought and provides an empirically based framework in which to place them. Focusing on modelling as an activity, rather than on models and techniques, Mike Pidd shows how models can be employed to explore possible future scenarios and to make sense of managerial vision.

This third edition has been fully revised and updated without changing its focus.  It features a new chapter on Decision Analysis and includes up-to-date examples using popular softwares, such as Precision Tree, @Risk and Micro Saint Sharp, to illustrate how these help in developing and using management science models as tools for thinking.

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
PART I MODELLING IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
1(82)
Models as convenient worlds
3(18)
Management Science -- making sense of strategic vision
21(22)
Problems, problems...
43(20)
Some principles of modelling
63(20)
PART II INTERPRETIVE MODELLING -- SOFT MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
83(102)
Soft systems methodology
89(20)
Cognitive mapping, SODA and journey-making
109(26)
System dynamics
135(22)
Decision analysis
157(28)
PART III MATHEMATICAL AND LOGICAL MODELLING
185(78)
Optimization modelling -- linear programming
187(24)
Computer simulation -- visual interactive modelling and Monte Carlo simulation
211(30)
Heuristic search
241(22)
PART IV MODEL ASSESSMENT AND VALIDATION
263(22)
Model assessment and validation
265(20)
Index 285
Mike Pidd is Professor of Management Science at Lancaster University. He has served as President of the Operational Research Society and as Chair of COPIOR (the Committee of Professors in OR). His research interests focus on the development of usable models in management science and computer simulation, most recently in healthcare, and he has published widely in academic journals and books.