Evidence-Based Decision-Making : How to Leverage Available Data and Avoid Cognitive Biases

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- PART I: Decision-Making Challenges -- 1 Subjective Evaluations -- Thinking and Games -- Mind vs. Machine -- Learning and Remembering -- The Decision-Making Brain -- 2 Non-Generalizable Objectivity -- Familiar Clues -- Anecdotal Evidence -- Nonrepresentative Samples -- 3 Mass Analytics -- Digitization of Life -- Data as the New Normal -- Data in Organizations -- The Analytics Industry -- PART II: Evidence-Based Practice -- 4 Evidence-Based Movement -- The Practice and Science of Management -- Evidence-Based Practice -- The Road Ahead -- 5 The Essence of Evidence -- What is Evidence? -- Empirical Evidence -- Experiential Evidence -- Internalizing Evidence -- PART III: The Empirical & Experiential Evidence Framework -- 6 Probabilistic Thinking -- Decision Uncertainty -- Evidence Pooling -- Cross-Type Amalgamation -- 7 The 3E Framework -- Organizational Decision-Making -- The Empirical & Experiential Evidence Framework -- Insight Extraction -- Believability of Evidence -- 8 Sourcing & Assessing: Operational Data -- Data, Research, and Decision-Making -- Probabilistic Analyses of Organizational Data -- Operational Data and Databases -- Getting Started with Operational Data -- Exploring Operational Data -- Exploratory Data Analysis -- Confirmatory Data Analysis -- 9 Sourcing & Assessing: Research, Norms, and Judgment -- Thematic Analyses of Empirical Research -- Summarizing Norms & Standards -- Pooling Expert Judgment -- PART IV: Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Organizations -- 10 Internal Design & Dynamics -- Organizations as Human Collectives -- Business Organizations -- Organizations and Decision-Making -- The 3E Framework & Organizational Dynamics -- 11 External Forces & Influences -- External Forces -- Non-Systematic Influences.