Search Results - subject:"problem solving"

Models in information behaviour research

Wilson, T.D. - In: Journal of Documentation 55 (1999) 3, pp. 249-270

complementary rather than conflicting. Finally, an alternative, problem‐solving model is presented, which, it is suggested, provides …

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Information retrieval for evidence‐based decision making

Ford, Nigel; Miller, Dave; O’rourke, Alan; Ralph, Jane; … - In: Journal of Documentation 55 (1999) 4, pp. 385-401

‐based approaches to decision making and problem solving makes demands on retrieval systems which they are not well suited at present to …

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Toward a holistic theory of strategic problem solving

O’Loughlin, Andrew; McFadzean, Elspeth - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 5 (1999) 3, pp. 103-120

To date, many of the models and theories that seek to explain problem solving and decision making, have tended to adopt … in providing managers with a practical explanation of the dynamics that underpin problem solving. A substantial part of a … manager’s time is taken up with problem solving and decision making issues. The question of whether managers possess the …

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Performance improvement: a manager for the twenty‐first century ‐ part II

Harrington, H. James - In: The TQM Magazine 11 (1999) 1, pp. 5-7

Managers are people who accomplish tasks through others. For the twenty‐first century, managers should be defined as people who accomplish tasks through their effective use of processes and enablers. This paper defines what the new manager will look like in the twenty‐first century. It is...

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Some empirical evidence on the superiority of the problem-based learning (PBL) method

Breton, Gaetan - In: Accounting Education 8 (1999) 1, pp. 1-12

This study compares the effects of two different teaching methods used concurrently on two comparable classes of accounting theory. The first method is the traditional lecture along with assignments and examinations. The second method is an application of the problem-based learning approach, the...

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Meeting the information needs of marketing in the twenty‐first century

Culkin, Nigel; Smith, David; Fletcher, Jonathon - In: Marketing Intelligence & Planning 17 (1999) 1, pp. 6-12

Addresses the question of whether ‐ now that we exist in the much heralded “information era” ‐ the information needs of those engaged in marketing are being satisfied. With interest in the Internet, as a burgeoning global communications medium, we now understand how things might be in...

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Generating Pareto Solutions in a Two-Party Setting: Constraint Proposal Methods

Ehtamo, Harri; Hämäläinen, Raimo P.; Heiskanen, Pirja; … - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 12, pp. 1697-1709

This paper presents a class of methods, called constraint proposal methods, for generating Pareto-optimal solutions in two-party negotiations. In these methods joint tangents of the decision makers' value functions are searched by adjusting an artificial plane constraint. The problem of...

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Action learning : ein Handbuch

Donnenberg, Otmar (ed.) - 1999

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Problemlösen in High-contact-Dienstleistungen

Otto, Holger - 1999

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The year 2000 date issue: an organizational problem beyond IS with strategic implications

Kohun, Frederick G.; Sipple, William L. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 99 (1999) 4, pp. 165-174

The year 2000 computer date problem, although identified since the 1960s, has been sensationalized, commercialized, but not yet universally resolved. Although estimates for correcting the problem hover around $600 billion in direct conversion costs, there is also an additional $1 trillion in...

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