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Mastering complexity : adding coherence throughout your business with dependency structure spreadsheets / Stephen Denker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denker, Stephen, author.
- Series:
- Productivity Press Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Problem solving--Data processing.
- Problem solving.
- Business--Decision making--Data processing.
- Business.
- Business--Data processing.
- Electronic spreadsheets.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, Florida ; London, [England] ; New York : CRC Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- <P>This book designed to help readers develop and maintain logical, adaptable solutions to business problems. It demonstrates how to visualize these business dependencies connections with a square spreadsheet called a Dependency Structure Matrix, or DSM. Once the links representing dependencies are visualized in a DSM, it can be used to improve the business. </P>
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: What Is Structure?; Chapter 2: Why a Structural Model?; Chapter 3: DSM Spreadsheet Process Model; Chapter 4: DSM Spreadsheet Shows a Plan; Chapter 5: Putting on My Shoes; Chapter 6: Reducing Cycle Time; Chapter 7: Reviews That Add Value; Chapter 8: Visualizing a Business; Chapter 9: Cross-Organizational Collaboration; Chapter 10: Representing Complexity; Chapter 11: What Depends on What?; Chapter 12: Projects and Structure; Chapter 13: Making Assumptions; Chapter 14: Manipulating Assumptions; Chapter 15: Active Risk Management
- Chapter 16: Unwrapping CircuitsChapter 17: Topological Order; Chapter 18: Partitioning; Chapter 19: Tearing Circuits; Chapter 20: Structural Components; Chapter 21: Configuration Testing; Chapter 22: Control Dependencies; Chapter 23: Breakthrough Thinking; Chapter 24: Understanding Structure Essentials; Chapter 25: Microsoft Excel®-Based Free Software; Chapter 26: Problematics PSM 32; Chapter 27: Lattix Architect and Lattix Analyst; About the Author; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781000730128
- 1000730123
- 9780429257322
- 0429257325
- 9781138438095
- 113843809X
- 9781498734073
- 1498734073
- 9781498700801
- 1498700802
- OCLC:
- 1080587872
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