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Book Towards a Strategic Management and Decision Technology

Download or read book Towards a Strategic Management and Decision Technology written by J.W. Sutherland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Towards a Strategic Management and Decision Technology

Download or read book Towards a Strategic Management and Decision Technology written by J. W. Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1989-04-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING FOR MANAGERS

Download or read book INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING FOR MANAGERS written by Henry C. Lucas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market_Desc: · IT Departments· Managers· MBA and IS Students Special Features: · Arms readers with the information needed to make sound management decisions.· Examines the economic impact of information systems.· Presents unique coverage of strategy, organizational, and management issues that can be applied at work.· Provides a Web site with new and expanded case studies.· Written by a prominent researcher and author. About The Book: Managers must be able to keep pace with the latest technological advances and make decisions on what needs to be implemented. This book gives them the tools to effectively manage technology in a 21st Century organization. The author clearly demonstrates how to best allocate resources to and within the technology function. He also includes a framework for determining IT strategy given the dynamic environment of electronic commerce and the Internet. Throughout the chapters, emphasis is placed on strategy and management issues to show the relevance of information technology.

Book Decision Making in Behavioral Strategy

Download or read book Decision Making in Behavioral Strategy written by T. K. Das and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behavioral strategy continues to attract increasing research interest within the broader field of strategic management. Research in behavioral strategy has clear scope for development in tandem with such traditional streams of strategy research that involve economics, markets, resources, and technology. The key roles of psychology, organizational behavior, and behavioral decision making in the theory and practice of strategy have yet to be comprehensively grasped. Given that strategic thinking and strategic decision making are importantly concerned with human cognition, human decisions, and human behavior, it makes eminent sense to bring some balance in the strategy field by complementing the extant emphasis on the “objective’ economics-based view with substantive attention to the “subjective” individual-oriented perspective. This calls for more focused inquiries into the role and nature of the individual strategy actors, and their cognitions and behaviors, in the strategy research enterprise. For the purposes of this book series, behavioral strategy would be broadly construed as covering all aspects of the role of the strategy maker in the entire strategy field. The scholarship relating to behavioral strategy is widely believed to be dispersed in diverse literatures. These existing contributions that relate to behavioral strategy within the overall field of strategy has been known and perhaps valued by most scholars all along, but were not adequately appreciated or brought together as a coherent sub-field or as a distinct perspective of strategy. This book series on Research in Behavioral Strategy will cover the essential progress made thus far in this admittedly fragmented literature and elaborate upon fruitful streams of scholarship. More importantly, the book series will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for the growing scholarship in behavioral strategy. In particular, the volumes in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models (dealing with all behavioral aspects), significant practical problems of strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with potential for wider application of behavioral strategy. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the subject of behavioral strategy. Decision Making in Behavioral Strategy contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of behavioral strategy research. The 10 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant issues relating to the decision making processes, practices, and perspectives in the field of behavioral strategy, covering diverse topics such as failures in acquisitions, entrepreneurs under ambiguity, metacognition, neural correlates of emotion, knowledge flows, behavioral responses, business modeling, and alliance capability. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on decision making in behavioral strategy.

Book Real Options and Strategic Technology Venturing

Download or read book Real Options and Strategic Technology Venturing written by Caroline M. Sipp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to answer “why, when and how are real options used in strategic technology venturing?” This work tests for the role of real options in decision making involving three types of firms in decreasing order of technology-dependence – technology-driven (TD) (where the profit is fully dependent on new technology creation and leveraging), technology-based (TB) (where the profit is enabled and supported by technology) and technology-neutral (TN) (where the profit is almost independent of technology). It also deals with strategic and non-strategic types of decisions driven by real options. This analysis shows that an environment presenting co-opetitive (simultaneous competition and collaboration) conditions triggers the use of real options (why), that serve to transform the position, posture and propensity of businesses to innovate and thus they co-evolve (when) into more effective and efficient forms of businesses (co-specialization) (how). The authors demonstrate that embracing risk and uncertainty can increase levels and probability of new venture formation. However, their simulation also shows that it should be adapted to the risk profile of the firm and that timing is also a factor to be considered. Although engaging the concepts of real options, this analysis does not focus on a specific investment valuation methodology, but highlights the relationship between knowledge and risk and rather addresses the management of mindsets, as moving towards a systematic conceptualization of real options represents a different paradigm in decision making.

Book Strategic Management of Technology

Download or read book Strategic Management of Technology written by Kari Hakkarainen and published by University of Vaasa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decision Intelligence Analytics and the Implementation of Strategic Business Management

Download or read book Decision Intelligence Analytics and the Implementation of Strategic Business Management written by P. Mary Jeyanthi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a framework for developing an analytics strategy that includes a range of activities, from problem definition and data collection to data warehousing, analysis, and decision making. The authors examine best practices in team analytics strategies such as player evaluation, game strategy, and training and performance. They also explore the way in which organizations can use analytics to drive additional revenue and operate more efficiently. The authors provide keys to building and organizing a decision intelligence analytics that delivers insights into all parts of an organization. The book examines the criteria and tools for evaluating and selecting decision intelligence analytics technologies and the applicability of strategies for fostering a culture that prioritizes data-driven decision making. Each chapter is carefully segmented to enable the reader to gain knowledge in business intelligence, decision making and artificial intelligence in a strategic management context.

Book Business Ethics and Strategy  Volumes I and II

Download or read book Business Ethics and Strategy Volumes I and II written by Alan E. Singer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended as a reference for those interested in the relationship between business strategy and business ethics, broadly conceived. Several articles have been selected from various leading journals in management, strategy and ethics. An introductory chapter provides an overview of the articles but it also relates them systematically to a fundamental dualism involving values, ethics and politics, all viewed from the perspective of business and business studies.

Book The Management of Technology and Innovation  A Strategic Approach

Download or read book The Management of Technology and Innovation A Strategic Approach written by Margaret A. White and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION: A STRATEGIC APPROACH explores the fundamental connections linking core business strategy, technology, and innovation. The text illustrates how these functions intertwine to play a central role in process layout, systems, structural design, and product development, as well as supporting an organization's overall success. An integrated approach and reader-friendly style make the material accessible for students of all backgrounds, and the text strikes an ideal balance between essential business theory and extensive practical insights and real-world applications. In addition, the Second Edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest trends and research, abundant current examples and cases, and a useful set of new tools students can use to support effective strategic decision-making. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Book Social Decision Methodology for Technological Projects

Download or read book Social Decision Methodology for Technological Projects written by C.A. Vlek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew out of the conviction that the preparation and management of large-scale technological projects can be substantially improved. We have witnessed the often unhappy course of societal and political decision making concerning projects such as hazardous chemical installations, novel types of electric power plant or storage sites for solid wastes. This has led us to believe that probabilistic risk analysis, technical reliability analysis and environm,ental impact analysis are necessary but insufficient for making acceptable, and justifiable, social decisions about such projects. There is more to socio-technical decision making than applying acceptance rules based on neglige ably low accident probabilities or on maximum credible accidents. Consideration must also be given to psychological, social and political issues and methods of decision making. Our conviction initially gave rise to an international experts' workshop titled 'Social decision methodology for technological projects' (SDMTP) and held in May 1986 at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, at a time when Cvetkovich spent a sabbatical there. The work shop - aimed at surveying the issues and listing the methods to address them - was the first part of an effort whose second part was directed at the production of this volume. Plans called for the book to deal systematically with the main problems of socio-technical decision making; it was to list a number of useful approaches and methods; and it was to present a number of integrative conclusions and recommendations for both policy makers and methodologists.

Book Technology and Strategy

Download or read book Technology and Strategy written by Richard Arthur Goodman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Strategy is a comprehensive guide to creating a strategic plan that incorporates technological growth. Using real-life examples from industries from electronics to bio-technology, the authors present the tools planners need to integrate a firm's technological capabilities with its strategic plan. Importantly, the book also addresses broader questions about the role of technology, clarifying when it aids innovation, when it is evolutionary, and when it is revolutionary. These questions are tested against trends such as Total Quality Management, the resource-based view of strategy, and the increase in external acquisition of technology. Offering clear guidance through an increasingly complex area, Technology and Strategy will be a valuable reference for practising executives, general managers, strategic planners, R&D executives, and manufacturers.

Book Information Technology Strategy and Management  Best Practices

Download or read book Information Technology Strategy and Management Best Practices written by Chew, Eng K. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-01-31 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the principles and methodologies for crafting and executing a successful business-aligned IT strategy to provide businesses with value delivery.

Book Management Theories and Strategic Practices for Decision Making

Download or read book Management Theories and Strategic Practices for Decision Making written by Tavana, Madjid and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an immense amount of information to be considered when attempting to solve complex strategic problems. To recognize the complexity of this process, the creation of tools and techniques are essential to aid decision makers in developing a rational model for strategy evaluation. Management Theories and Strategic Practices for Decision Making brings together a collection of research aiming to provide communication for the management of new methodologies to solve strategic problems and applying decision making approaches. This reference is useful for government agencies, practicing managers, academic and research institutions interested in bringing together strategic decision-making and decision sciences.

Book Information Technology and Management Strategy

Download or read book Information Technology and Management Strategy written by Kenneth C. Laudon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the New York University symposium on [title] held June, 1986. Organized into three sections: theory, implementation, and problems. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Strategic Management  Decision Theory  and Decision Science

Download or read book Strategic Management Decision Theory and Decision Science written by Bikas Kumar Sinha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains international perspectives that unifies the themes of strategic management, decision theory, and data science. It contains thought-provoking presentations of case studies backed by adequate analysis adding significance to the discussions. Most of the decision-making models in use do take due advantage of collection and processing of relevant data using appropriate analytics oriented to provide inputs into effective decision-making. The book showcases applications in diverse fields including banking and insurance, portfolio management, inventory analysis, performance assessment of comparable economic agents, managing utilities in a health-care facility, reducing traffic snarls on highways, monitoring achievement of some of the sustainable development goals in a country or state, and similar other areas that showcase policy implications. It holds immense value for researchers as well as professionals responsible for organizational decisions.

Book Strategic Management of Technological Learning

Download or read book Strategic Management of Technological Learning written by Elias Carayannis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do companies such as BMW, Airbus Industrie, and Bayer leverage technology and learn to thrive where others fail? This book provides a one-stop resource on technology, innovation, and knowledge management. It gives you a tool for gaining short-term, case-specific insight and long-term, industry-wide understanding of the best technology management and learning policies and practices. The Strategic Management of Technological Learning explores a portfolio of case studies on technology-driven-but not exclusively high-tech-companies that have an overall long-term record of success and prosperity. Through in-depth interviews with industry practitioners, the author empirically identifies the presence of Strategic or Active Incrementalism. The following chart shows the studied firms, which operate at high risk and uncertainty, very dynamic, and technologically intensive business environments:

Book Evolution and Progress in Democracies

Download or read book Evolution and Progress in Democracies written by Johann Götschl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a ground-breaking series of articles, one of them written by a Nobel Laureate, this volume demonstrates the evolutionary dynamic and the transformation of today's democratic societies into scientific-democratic societies. It highlights the progress of modeling individual and societal evaluation by neo-Bayesian utility theory. It shows how social learning and collective opinion formation work, and how democracies cope with randomness caused by randomizers. Nonlinear `evolution equations' and serial stochastic matrices of evolutionary game theory allow us to optimally compute possible serial evolutionary solutions of societal conflicts. But in democracies progress can be defined as any positive, gradual, innovative and creative change of culturally used, transmitted and stored mentifacts (models, theories), sociofacts (customs, opinions), artifacts and technifacts, within and across generations. The most important changes are caused, besides randomness, by conflict solutions and their realizations by citizens who follow democratic laws. These laws correspond to the extended Pareto principle, a supreme, socioethical democratic rule. According to this principle, progress is any increase in the individual and collective welfare which is achieved during any evolutionary progress. Central to evolutionary modeling is the criterion of the empirical realization of computed solutions. Applied to serial conflict solutions (decisions), evolutionary trajectories are formed; they become the most influential causal attractors of the channeling of societal evolution. Democratic constitutions, legal systems etc., store all advantageous, present and past, adaptive, competitive, cooperative and collective solutions and their rules; they have been accepted by majority votes. Societal laws are codes of statutes (default or statistical rules), and they serve to optimally solve societal conflicts, in analogy to game theoretical models or to statistical decision theory. Such solutions become necessary when we face harmful or advantageous random events always lurking at the edge of societal and external chaos. The evolutionary theory of societal evolution in democracies presents a new type of stochastic theory; it is based on default rules and stresses realization. The rules represent the change of our democracies into information, science and technology-based societies; they will revolutionize social sciences, especially economics. Their methods have already found their way into neural brain physiology and research into intelligence. In this book, neural activity and the creativity of human thinking are no longer regarded as linear-deductive. Only evolutive nonlinear thinking can include multiple causal choices by many individuals and the risks of internal and external randomness; this serves the increasing welfare of all individuals and society as a whole. Evolution and Progress in Democracies is relevant for social scientists, economists, evolution theorists, statisticians, philosophers, philosophers of science, and interdisciplinary researchers.