Planning Under Pressure

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Routledge, 23 de mai. de 2012 - 416 páginas
Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty.
Starting from basic principles, the book uses helpful diagrams and clear explanations to demonstrate practical ways of approaching daunting decision problems; of devising possible ways forward; and of working effectively towards agreed courses of action. Along he way, decision makers are helped to cope with diverse sources of uncertainty – technical, political, managerial – in a strategic manner.
In this extended third edition, the authors have added short contributions from 21 users from seven countries. These new contributors present lessons from their varied experiences in adapting the Strategic Choice Approach to guide decision-making and learning in settings ranging from the re-routing of a controversial city carnival procession to national policy for the management of nuclear waste.
 

Conteúdo

1 Foundations
1
2 Working into problems
23
3 Working towards decisions
43
4 Orientations
67
5 Skills in shaping
89
6 Skills in designing
119
7 Skills in comparing
147
8 Skills in choosing
179
10 The electronic resource
245
11 Extensions in process management
257
12 Invention transformation and interpretation
273
13 Learning from others
295
14 The developmental challenge
361
Access to further information
369
Bibliography
373
Index
379

9 Practicalities
211

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Sobre o autor (2012)

John Friend, Allen Hickling

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