Author : Institute of Management Sciences
Publisher :
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Developing countries
ISBN :
Author : Institute of Management Sciences
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Developing countries
ISBN :
Author : J. George Shanthikumar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461551919
Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes is an edited work written in honor of Julien Keilson. This volume has attracted a host of scholars in applied probability, who have made major contributions to the field, and have written survey and state-of-the-art papers on a variety of applied probability topics, including, but not limited to: perturbation method, time reversible Markov chains, Poisson processes, Brownian techniques, Bayesian probability, optimal quality control, Markov decision processes, random matrices, queueing theory and a variety of applications of stochastic processes. The book has a mixture of theoretical, algorithmic, and application chapters providing examples of the cutting-edge work that Professor Keilson has done or influenced over the course of his highly-productive and energetic career in applied probability and stochastic processes. The book will be of interest to academic researchers, students, and industrial practitioners who seek to use the mathematics of applied probability in solving problems in modern society.
Author : Henry Mintzberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 1994-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1439107351
In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis and strategy is about synthesis. That is why, he asserts, the process has failed so often and so dramatically. Mintzberg traces the origins and history of strategic planning through its prominence and subsequent fall. He argues that we must reconceive the process by which strategies are created -- by emphasizing informal learning and personal vision -- and the roles that can be played by planners. Mintzberg proposes new and unusual definitions of planning and strategy, and examines in novel and insightful ways the various models of strategic planning and the evidence of why they failed. Reviewing the so-called "pitfalls" of planning, he shows how the process itself can destroy commitment, narrow a company's vision, discourage change, and breed an atmosphere of politics. In a harsh critique of many sacred cows, he describes three basic fallacies of the process -- that discontinuities can be predicted, that strategists can be detached from the operations of the organization, and that the process of strategy-making itself can be formalized. Mintzberg devotes a substantial section to the new role for planning, plans, and planners, not inside the strategy-making process, but in support of it, providing some of its inputs and sometimes programming its outputs as well as encouraging strategic thinking in general. This book is required reading for anyone in an organization who is influenced by the planning or the strategy-making processes.
Author : Klaus Schittkowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642464246
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Industrial management
ISBN :
Issues for Feb. 1965-Aug. 1967 include Bulletin of the Institute of Management Sciences.
Author : Suhaiza Hanim Binti Dato Mohamad Zailani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1820 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9464632569
This is an open access book.Management science aims to study the dynamic study of human use of limited resources in management activities to achieve organizational goals: complex and innovative social behavior and its laws. And engineering management refers to the management of important and complex new products, equipment and devices in the process of development, manufacturing and production, and also includes the study and management of technological innovation, technological transformation, transformation, transformation, layout and strategy of industrial engineering technology development. The development or breakthrough of management theory is accompanied by the development and progress of science and technology, and the level of science and technology and the level of management theory in each historical period are mutually adaptive, and it can be said that the progress of science and technology plays an important role in promoting the development of management. At the same time, the rapid development and progress of science and technology give a strong injection to the development of engineering, and provide the possibility for engineering construction can use new technology, new equipment, new technology and new materials. Modern management is an important development direction of management science nowadays. And the use of modern management in engineering has an important role in saving social costs, ensuring project quality, and improving safety awareness and behavior. ICMSEM 2023 will focus on modern management, discuss about the benefits that modernization brings to engineering. ICMSEM 2023 aims to: Develop and advance management science through the study and application of certain issues. Open up new perspectives in the sharing of speakers and inspire the audience to new ways of managing in engineering. Create a forum for sharing, research and exchange at the international level, so that the participants can be informed of the latest research directions, results and contents of management science, which will inspire them to new ideas for research and practice.
Author : Jean-Marc Choukroun
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1512801577
Russell Lincoln Ackoff is a recognized authority in the field of operations research and systems theory. This volume is divided into four major sections. The first deals with Ackoff's intellectual roots in the American pragmatic tradition. The second section demonstrates how systems thinkers have incorporated Ackoff's ideas in their own work. The third section shows the influence of Ackoff's thinking on decision making and problem solving, while the final section offers a reassessment of current approaches to systems planning on the national level. In addition, the editors have provided a general introduction, as well as introductions to each of the five sections. Planning for Human Systems will be of interest to students and scholars of operations research and systems theory. Contributors: Michel Chevalier, C. West Churchman, Thomas A. Cowan, Eric Trist, Ian I. Mitroff, Stafford Beer, and Ignacy Sachs.
Author : Gustav Feichtinger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400979010
Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Operations Research Societies, Vienna, September 22-24, 1980
Author :
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Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN :
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
