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Document Type: | Book |
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RICHARD M ADLER |
ISBN: | 3030327167 9783030327163 |
OCLC Number: | 1231957724 |
Contents: | Chapter 1. Critical decisions.- Chapter 2. The Law of Unintended Consequences (LUC).- Chapter 3. Psychology of Critical Decision-Making.- Chapter 4. Rational Decision-Making.- Chapter 5. Defending Your Critical Decisions...Against You.- Chapter 6. BI, Analytics, and Their Discontents.- Chapter 7. Tools of the Decision Support Trade.- Chapter 8. Test Drive Your Critical Decisions.- Chapter 9. Competitive Marketing Strategy.- Chapter 10. Disruptive Growth.- Chapter 11. Managing Enterprise Risk.- Chapter 12. Enabling Organizational Change.- Chapter 13. Pragmatics.- Chapter 14. Conclusions. |
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We like to think that we are disciplined decisionmakers but, as a species, we are much more in the moment and intuitive when it comes to making decisions. We sweat over what to do and then, usually, go with our "gut". And that's where we...
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We like to think that we are disciplined decisionmakers but, as a species, we are much more in the moment and intuitive when it comes to making decisions. We sweat over what to do and then, usually, go with our "gut". And that's where we often feel the painful results of our decisions when it's too late to do anything about them. We live in a much more complex world than our "gut" can handle and many of us recognize that and have come to rely on decision support tools to help us get a glimpse of what might happen when we choose a particular path. But these tools (spreadsheets, decision trees, Monte Carlo, etc.) tend to be mono-dimensional and only go so far. And then along comes Dr. Adler.
His approach is fundamentally different from what most of us have done until now. It's a complete process for not just, as he says, test driving our decisions but it is also a system for ongoing assessment of our decisions and then testing and implementing adjustments as the real world unfolds.
Dr. Adler doesn't adhere to one form of assessing decisions with a very limited number of purely quantitative variables but employs an integrated set of modelling tools that allow for such things are behavioral variables.
In the complex world we've created and the potentially dire results of our decisions, it's critical that we approach our decisions as more than something to "get done" but, rather, as tangled, dynamic, difficult and continuing realities that we have to approach carefully and then revisit and manage on an ongoing basis.
People who are responsible for these types of decisions without at least understanding and trying Dr. Adler's approach aren't just shortchanging themselves but, potentially, creating problems even bigger than the ones they are trying to solve.
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