- Paperback: 319 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd edition (14 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470847956
- ISBN-13: 978-0470847954
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 342,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This update of the successful first edition offers tools and methods for effectively thinking through the consequences of a given action before making major decisions. Managers will not only gain an understanding of effective tools and methodologies for modelling in decision making, but also come to understand how modelling functions alongside intuition,vision, and leadership. This is an invaluable guide to using modelling to explore potential scenarios and make the right business decision.
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Thinking things through is easier said than done, but there are tools that can help decision–making.
Writing from over twenty–five years′ 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.
Tools for Thinking builds a bridge between the soft and hard OR schools of thought and provides an empirically based framework in which to place them, thus helping overcome the inherent suspicions of both camps. Focusing on modelling as an activity, rather than on models and techniques, the book argues for its relevance alongside intuition, vision and leadership. Above all it stresses that systematic thinking and analysis has a role to play in organisational life. By introducing the model as a tool for thought, Mike Pidd shows how models can be employed to explore possible future scenarios and to make sense of managerial vision.
Extensively revised and updated this new edition of Tools for Thinking builds on the success of the original book and shows how both soft and hard approaches can be used in practice.
Writing from over twenty–five years′ 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.
Tools for Thinking builds a bridge between the soft and hard OR schools of thought and provides an empirically based framework in which to place them, thus helping overcome the inherent suspicions of both camps. Focusing on modelling as an activity, rather than on models and techniques, the book argues for its relevance alongside intuition, vision and leadership. Above all it stresses that systematic thinking and analysis has a role to play in organisational life. By introducing the model as a tool for thought, Mike Pidd shows how models can be employed to explore possible future scenarios and to make sense of managerial vision.
Extensively revised and updated this new edition of Tools for Thinking builds on the success of the original book and shows how both soft and hard approaches can be used in practice.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good, and not just for OR,
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This review is from: Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science (Paperback)
The allied concepts of systems engineering and soft systems work, methodologies even, rely on concepts of explicit models of the domain under study. Pidd's thoughtful work here in clarifying the various types of meaning that may be included in a model, and what types of results can be gleaned from such abstractions is valuable for serious workers in these fields.
Some aspects of this 2nd edition are showing their age. The software-related chapters, as ever in works like this, need to be taken with a pinch of salt but there's no mention of what have now emerged as core concepts such as for example UML or genetic/evolutionary algorithms.
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Good condition. Interesting book.,
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This review is from: Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science (Paperback)
Product - Good quality of the product sent.
Content - Interesting mind training for quantitative researches and simulation. Except that the book size is to small to lay pages flat.
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An excellent OR primer,
This review is from: Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science (Hardcover)
The book provides a very clear exposition and comparison of both soft and hard Operational Research methods. It is highly readable and utilises examples and diagrams well. The nature of the book is that it does not go into too much detail on any one technique, so people wishing to know how to employ a particular method will probably use the book as a 'stepping stone'to more detailed text books with narrower scope.I would particularly commend the chapter on validation - which neatly summarises a variety of approaches one can take towards achieving a validation of models. In particular, it highlights the change of emphasis between the validation approaches as one moves from 'hard' to 'soft OR techniques.
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