Tools for Thinking Modelling in Management Science

by Pidd, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780470721421
• ISBN10: 0470721421
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

With over 30 yearsrs" experience as a management teacher and consultant, Mike Pidd provides the tools for thinking that will help us to think through the consequences of decisions before we act.The third edition of Tools for Thinking builds on the successes of the previous two editions. It creates a bridge between the soft and hard (Operations Research) OR schools of thought and provides an empirically based framework in which to place them. Focusing on modelling as an activity, rather than on models and techniques, Mike Pidd shows how models can be employed to explore possible future scenarios and to make sense of managerial vision.This third edition has been fully revised and updated without changing its focus. It features a new chapter on Decision Analysis and includes up-to-date examples using popular softwares, such as Precision Tree, @Risk and Micro Saint Sharp, to illustrate how these help in developing and using management science models as tools for thinking.

Author Biography

Mike Pidd is Professor of Management Science at Lancaster University. He has served as President of the Operational Research Society and as Chair of COPIOR (the Committee of Professors in OR). His research interests focus on the development of usable models in management science and computer simulation, most recently in healthcare, and he has published widely in academic journals and books.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Modelling In Management Science	p. 1
Models as convenient worlds	p. 3
Management Science - making sense of strategic vision	p. 21
Problems, problems …	p. 43
Some principles of modelling	p. 63
Interpretive Modelling - Soft Management Science	p. 83
Soft systems methodology	p. 89
Cognitive mapping, SODA and journey-making	p. 109
System dynamics	p. 135
Decision analysis	p. 157
Mathematical and Logical Modelling	p. 185
Optimization modelling - linear programming	p. 187
Computer simulation - visual interactive modelling and Monte Carlo simulation	p. 211
Heuristic search	p. 241
Model Assessment and Validation	p. 263
Model assessment and validation	p. 265
Index	p. 285
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