Titlebook: Making Essential Choices with Scant Information; Front-End Decision M Terry M. Williams (Professor of Management Science Book 2009 Palgrave

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Scenarios Planning judgements made under conditions of scant information. The focus is on the area of appreciative judgement (Vickers, 1995), based on making sense of diverse and often contradictory signals against a background of significant uncertainty. A general discussion of the topic is followed by case studies

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Front-end Alignment of Projects — Doing the Right Projectshed; they will further the sponsoring organization’s chosen corporate strategy and contribute to its overall goals. Unfortunately, this is not always done and can result in significant underperformance compared to expectations. Challenges are created by the different nature of the tasks facing both

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Using Soft Systems Methodology to Structure Project Definitione front-end of projects: “better understanding is needed of the ‘soft’ methodologies and their relevance and credibility”. This chapter focuses on one of these “soft” methodologies, namely, soft systems methodology (SSM) and how it can be applied at the front-end. The chapter will demonstrate the re

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Decision Behaviour- Improving Expert Judgements deviate systematically from normative standards. Per definition, systematic biases result in reduced decision quality, and accordingly, may have serious consequences. However, the fact that judgement biases are systematic also gives hope. If the biases and their causes can be identified, it should

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Useful Heuristics prices of houses in a certain area. The first project leader, Mr O, approaches this task by searching exhaustively for all available pieces of information that he knows will influence the selling price, such as property tax, lot size, total living space, age of the house, number of bathrooms and so