Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science - Hardcover

Pidd, Michael

 
9780471964551: Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0471964557 ISBN 13: 9780471964551
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the development and use of explicit models in management science, bridging the gap between "hard" and "soft" OR/MS. It emphasizes modelling rather than mathematics and places management science within a framework which is defensible in the face of attacks on rational methods in business. It discusses soft OR/MS and hard OR/MS and then compares the two. Written in a non-technical style, providing an excellent introduction to the field.

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Mike Pidd is Professor of Management Science at Lancaster University. He has published many books, articles and papers. He is well known as the author of Computer Simulation in Management Science (John Wiley) which is now in its third edition.

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Tools for Thinking Modelling in Management Science Michael Pidd The Management School, University of Lancaster Thinking things through is easier said than done. Are there tools and methods that can help us to do this? Are there better ways of taking decisions than just following the latest management fad? Writing from over twenty years' experience as management teacher and consultant, Mike Pidd argues that such tools for thinking do exist. Ideas developed over the last decade make it easier for us to think through the consequences of decisions before we act. Tools for Thinking straddles the soft and hard operational research schools of thought and provides an empirically based framework in which to place them. It focuses on modelling as an activity, rather than on techniques and models, and argues for its relevance alongside intuition, vision and leadership. It provides practical advice and theoretical underpinnings for ? soft systems methodology ? cognitive mapping ? qualitative system dynamics ? optimisation on spreadsheets ? visual interactive modelling ? meta-heuristics approaches In introducing the model as a tool for thought, Mike Pidd shows how models can be employed profitably to explore possible future scenarios and to make sense of managerial vision. Management Science

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0471964557
ISBN 13 
9780471964551
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
350
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