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Author(s): Gerard H. Gaynor
ISBN(s): 9780470167595, 0470167599
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 10.63 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  0470167599

ISBN 13: 978-0470167595

Author:  Gerard H. Gaynor 

DECISIONS focuses on how organizations can improve decision-making processes to improve organizational performance in a global economy.

  • Presents research related to problems associated with meeting requirements, schedules, and costs
  • Defines the scope of macro and micro decisions
  • Raises the issue of the role of engineering, manufacturing, and marketing in making organizational decisions
  • Includes references to Peter Drucker’s studies on decision-making

Table of contents: 

1. CONFRONTING THE REALITIES IN DECISION-MAKING

  • History of Failed Projects

  • Organizational Discipline

  • Sources of Decision-Making Knowledge

  • Making Organizational Decisions

  • Key Points

  • Notes

2. MANAGING THE ORGANIZATION

  • Management Model

  • New Management Paradigm

  • Executives

  • Managers

  • Engineers and Other Discipline Specialists

  • Project Managers

  • Common Requirements for Executives, Managers, Engineers and Other Discipline Professionals, and Project Managers

  • Key Points

  • Notes

3. DECISIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

  • The Knowledge Chain

  • External Decision Drivers

  • Expanding Worldwide Operations

  • Dealing with Acquisitions and Mergers

  • Restructuring Organizations

  • Investing in New-to-the-Market Product/Services

  • Investing in New Technologies

  • Entering New Markets

  • Discontinuing a Product Line

  • Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • Locating Business Operations

  • Key Points

  • Notes

4. DECISIONS AND PROJECT SCOPE

  • Organizational Decisions

  • Low Impact to High Impact

  • Simple to Complex

  • Low Cost to High Cost

  • Low Risk to High Risk

  • Upgrade to Innovative

  • Current Business to New Business Unit

  • Current Business Unit to a New Game

  • Decisions in Functional Units

  • Limited Scope to Expanded Scope

  • Strategic to Operational

  • Knockouts

  • Thinking Before Doing

  • Key Points

  • Note

5. MACRO DECISION TO IMPLEMENTATION

  • Executing the Decision

  • Using Tools and Techniques

  • Describing the Problem

  • Improving IT Project Performance

  • Advancing Project Management Practice

  • Managing Project Cycle Time

  • Managing with a Systems Perspective

  • Key Points

  • Notes

6. MAKING PEOPLE DECISIONS

  • Energizing the Human Resource Department

  • Hiring Practices

  • Evaluating Employee Performance

  • Assessing Employee Potential

  • Promotions and Appointments

  • Selecting Team Members

  • Selecting the Right People

  • Assigning Work

  • Transitioning From Specialist to Manager

  • Salary Schedules

  • Continuing Education

  • Building a Succession Competence

  • Key Points

  • Notes

7. DEVELOPING DECISION-MAKING COMPETENCIES

  • Decision Dilemmas

  • Learning to Make Decisions

  • Educating for Decision-Making

  • Dealing with Ambiguity

  • Executing the Deliverables

  • Key Points

  • Notes

8. IBM ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA: THE SILVERLAKE PROJECT

  • Birth of IBMR Minnesota

  • Project Fort Knox

  • IBMR Faces Market Challenges

  • New Directions for IBM Rochester

  • Furey Asks the Hard Questions

  • Ambitious Goals

  • Market Launch

  • Lessons Learned

  • Key Points

  • Notes

9. BOEING AND THE 787 DREAMLINER

  • Dreamliner Scope and Expectations

  • Boeing—The Enterprise

  • The 787 Dreamliner Challenges

  • Commentary

  • Key Points

  • Notes

10. COMMUNICATION IN DECISION-MAKING

  • New-to-the-Market Product

  • What is Communication?

  • Types of Communication

  • Organizational Context

  • Barriers to Effective Communication

  • Ethical Issues in Communication

  • Eliminating the Communication Barriers

  • Key Points

  • Notes

11. EVALUATING DECISION-MAKING PERFORMANCE

  • People

  • Purposes

  • Processes

  • Strategic Thinking

  • Culture

  • Products and Services

  • Resources

  • Leadership

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • Organizational Readiness

  • Policies and Procedures

  • Employee Benefits

  • Downsizing

  • Going Global

  • Government Regulations

  • Offshore Operations

  • Integrating Organizational Units

  • General Governance Issues

  • Key Points

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