Description
Book SynopsisHave you ever experienced a decision situation that was hard to come to grips with? Did you ever feel a need to improve your decision-making skills? Is this something where you feel that you have not learned enough practical and useful methods? In that case, you are not alone! Even though decision-making is both considered and actually is a very important skill in modern work-life as well as in private life, these skills are not to any reasonable extent taught in schools at any level. No wonder many people do indeed feel the need to improve but have a hard time finding out how. This book is an attempt to remedy this shortcoming of our educational systems and possibly also of our common, partly intuition-based, decision culture. Intuition is not at all bad, quite the contrary, but it has to co-exist with rationality. We will show you how.
Methods for decision-making should be of prime concern to any individual or organisation, even if the decision processes are not always expli
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Decision Modelling
Chapter 3 Bayesian Decision Analysis
Chapter 4 Imprecise Information
Chapter 5 Multi-Criteria Decision-Making
Chapter 6 The Pilot Method
Chapter 7 Real-Life Case Studies
Chapter 8 Guidelines for Real-Life Decisions
Appendix: The DecideIT Software
