| Getting Better at Sensemaking Contributor(s): Woodside, Arch G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0762306335 ISBN-13: 9780762306336 Publisher: Jai Press Inc. OUR PRICE: $183.34 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2001 Annotation: Volume 9 is a feast. The 16 contributions fill the mind with knowledge, skills, and insights useful for improving the executive's ability to do what needs to be done: scan environments better to find the weak signals on breakthrough technologies; shifts in customers' attitudes and behaviors; changes in behaviors of suppliers, governments, and other stakeholder groups; frame problems/opportunities better by deepening understanding on how we go about making sense of what is happening and can be made to happen; deciding better by gaining deep knowledge on how decisions are actually made and can be improved (e.g., via systems thinking and simulating system operations to uncover powerful levers previously unrecognized); doing better by applying new tools to learn what is really happening when planned strategies are converted into realized strategies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Social Science - Business & Economics | Management - General |
| Dewey: 658.8 |
| Series: Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.96 lbs) 512 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work's 16 contributions fill the mind with knowledge, skills, and insights useful for improving the executive's ability to do what needs to be done: scan environments better to find the weak signals on breakthrough technologies; shifts in customers' attitudes and behaviors; changes in behaviors of suppliers, governments, and other stakeholder groups; frame problems/opportunities better by deepening understanding on how we go about making sense of what is happening and can be made to happen; deciding better by gaining deep knowledge on how decisions are actually made and can be improved (e.g., via systems thinking and simulating system operations to uncover powerful levers previously unrecognized); and, doing better by applying new tools to learn what is really happening when planned strategies are converted into realized strategies. |