 Tools for Thinking: Modelling in Management Science, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 978-0-470-84795-4
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332 pages
March 2003
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Preface.
Acknowledgements.
PART I: MODELLING IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.
Models as convenient worlds.
Management science - making sense of strategic vision.
Problems, problems...
Some principles of modelling.
PART II: INTERPRETIVE MODELLING – SOFT MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.
Soft systems methodology.
Cognitive mapping, SODA and Journey Making.
System dynamics.
PART III: MATHEMATICAL AND LOGICAL MODELLING.
Optimization modelling - linear programming.
Visual interactive modelling - discrete event computer simulation.
Heuristic search.
PART IV: MODEL ASSESSMENT AND VALIDATION
Model assessment and validation.
Index.
