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Strategic IT Investment Decisions
2009As many as half the decisions taken in organizations result in failure (Nutt, 1999). As information technology (IT) assumes a greater prominence in firms’ strategic portfolios, managers need to pay more attention to managing the technology. However, while IT can have a significant impact on organizational performance, it can also be a major inhibitor ...
Chou, T.C., Dyson, R., Powell, P.
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Erratic Strategic Decisions: When and Why Managers are Inconsistent in Strategic Decision Making
Strategic Management Journal, 2010Abstract While decision makers in organizations frequently make good decisions rooted in stable and consistent preferences, such consistency in outcomes is not always the case. In this study, we adopt a psychological perspective of judgment to investigate managers' erratic strategic decisions, which we define as a
J. Robert Mitchell +2 more
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Infoviz for strategic decision making
Intelligent Decision Technologies, 2008A growing number of companies have started to build interactive tools for business intelligence and analytics. Such software tools generally incorporate information visualization (InfoViz) for the processing and representation of corporate data. This paper investigates the extent to which software for InfoViz in business and business intelligence ...
Joachim Hasebrook, Ankit Saha
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Journal of Management, 1995
Recent years have witnessed a profusion of research on aspects of the strategic decision process and factors that may affect this process. In this article I will discuss four major themes in this research which include strategic decision models and characteristics, biases in decision making, individual and organizational minds, and upper echelons.
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Recent years have witnessed a profusion of research on aspects of the strategic decision process and factors that may affect this process. In this article I will discuss four major themes in this research which include strategic decision models and characteristics, biases in decision making, individual and organizational minds, and upper echelons.
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Strategic Induction of Decision Trees
Knowledge-Based Systems, 1999An algorithm for decision-tree induction is presented in which attribute selection is based on the evidence-gathering strategies used by doctors in sequential diagnosis. Since the attribute selected by the algorithm at a given node is often the best attribute according to the Quinlan's information gain criterion, the decision tree it induces is often ...
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The Decision to Cooperate: A Strategic Decision
2002The concept of strategy is as old as humanity itself. The first attempts at systematization and characterization took place in the military field (Philip of Macedonia, Alexander the Great, Sun Tzu, Napoleon, for example), although the strategic component in the thinking of other great leaders or thinkers (Machiavelli, Lenin or Mao Zedong) is also very ...
Nieves Arranz Peña +1 more
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2011
Logistics has an important economic role because it swallows the biggest part of capital and supports the flow and movement of many economic transactions. Therefore, designing the best logistics strategies is vital. In this chapter, we take a look at different kinds of logistics decisions, especially investigate the strategic ones.
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Logistics has an important economic role because it swallows the biggest part of capital and supports the flow and movement of many economic transactions. Therefore, designing the best logistics strategies is vital. In this chapter, we take a look at different kinds of logistics decisions, especially investigate the strategic ones.
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Strategizing Before Strategic Decision Making
Strategy Science, 2018Processes of strategic problem formulation are not only core to strategic decision making, but may be paramount. Indeed, one cannot even assess whether a situation is strategic until the problem has been formulated. To illustrate the importance of problem formulation, we present a case study, and after highlighting key features, explore several ways in
Jackson Nickerson, Nicholas Argyres
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Strategic decisions and intelligent tools
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2005The success of the strategy formulation process is strictly contingent on the reliability and exhaustiveness of the information a strategist relies on. This paper investigates the Internet as a potential resource of the strategically important information and software intelligent agents as a tool for information retrieval.
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Decisions on strategic markets — An experimental study
Scandinavian Journal of Management, 1992Abstract This paper analyses the decision behaviour of college students of business and economics and of professional business managers, in relation to a decision problem. Three data sets are obtained: a combined set from the universities of Munich and Aarhus, one from the Aarhus School of Business, and one created from the population of the 2800 ...
Holler, Manfred J. +2 more
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