Complex Strategic Choices: Applying Systemic Planning for Strategic Decision Making

✍ Scribed by Steen Leleur (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 175
• Series: Decision Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Effective decision making requires a clear methodology, particularly in complex, globally relevant situations. Institutions and companies in all disciplines and sectors are faced with increasingly multi-faceted areas of uncertainty which cannot always be effectively handled by traditional strategies. Complex Strategic Choices provides clear principles and methods which can guide and support strategic decision to face modern challenges.

By considering ways in which planning practices can be renewed and exploring the possibilities for acquiring awareness and tools to add value to strategic decision making, Complex Strategic Choices presents a methodology which is further illustrated by a number of case studies and example applications. Dr. Techn. Steen Leleur has adapted previously established research based on feedback and input from various conferences, journals and students resulting in new material stemming from and focusing on practical application of systemic planning. The outcome is a coherent and flexible approach named systemic planning.

The inclusion of both the theoretical and practical aspects of systemic planning makes this book a key resource for researchers and students in the field of planning and decision analysis as well as practitioners dealing with strategic analysis and decision making. More broadly, Complex Strategic Choices acts as guide for professionals and students involved in complex planning tasks across several fields such as business and engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Complexity as a Challenge....Pages 1-14
The Condition of Complexity....Pages 15-26
Linking Complexity and Simplicity....Pages 27-33
The Systemic Process....Pages 35-41
The Systemic Toolbox....Pages 43-54
Setting up the Decision Support....Pages 55-70
Company Relocation as Demo-Case....Pages 71-93
A Summing up: The Challenge of Strategic Decision Making....Pages 95-121
Back Matter....Pages 123-168

✦ Subjects

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing;Organization/Planning;Systems Theory, Control;Complexity