The Future of Decision Making: How Revolutionary Software Can Improve the Ability to Decide

✍ Scribed by Roger C. Schank, Dimitris Lyras, Elliot Soloway (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Don’t Follow the Rules, But Do Embrace Case-Based Reasoning....Pages 21-40
Why It Matters: Greater Productivity, Profit, and Purpose....Pages 41-58
Software Based on the Science of Decision Making: Tools Organizations Can Use....Pages 59-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Start with Activity Maps, Proverbs, and Goal Conflicts: Creating Software That Functions the Way the Mind Works....Pages 87-105
Identify the Experts and Gather Their Stories....Pages 107-124
Finding Information versus the Information Finding You....Pages 125-145
Decision-Making Training: More Experience through Software....Pages 147-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The Human Factor: Achieving True Usability....Pages 167-187
Obstacles and Opportunities: How Organizations Can put Cognitive Systems into Practice....Pages 189-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-220

✦ Subjects

Knowledge Management; Business Strategy/Leadership; Organization; Operations Management; Operation Research/Decision Theory