Dealing with dilemmas : where business analytics fall short / Frank Buytendijk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buytendijk, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic planning.

Business intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Observing how business management is obsessed with analysis and numbers, Dealing with Dilemmas shows there is an entire class of problems that cannot be solved by analysis: business dilemmas. Dilemmas, representing a large part of strategic decision-making, require the opposite approach of analysis; synthesis. Dealing with Dilemmas shows how popular performance management methodologies can be used in new and previously unexplored ways. It authoritatively shows you how your business can move forward strategically in ways previously impossible. Shows dangers in curre

Contents:

Dealing with Dilemmas: WHERE BUSINESS ANALYTICS FALL SHORT; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1: What Is the Problem?; CHAPTER 2: Strategy Is about Making Choices, or Is It?; CHAPTER 3: All Kinds of Dilemmas, but Just a Few Types; CHAPTER 4: The Strategy Elastic; CHAPTER 5: Dealing with Dilemmas, or Not?; CHAPTER 6: To Decide or Not to Decide, That Is the Question; CHAPTER 7: This and That; CHAPTER 8: You and Me; CHAPTER 9: Now and Later; CHAPTER 10: Increasing the Stakes; CHAPTER 11: Closing Thoughts; APPENDIX: Company Profiles; Notes; About the Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612728860

9781119200758

111920075X

9781282728868

1282728865

9780470768464

0470768460

OCLC:

659500820