{"product_id":"essential-business-challenges-how-to-understand-complexity-address-change-and-make-better-decisions-paperback","title":"Essential Business Challenges: How to Understand Complexity, Address Change, and Make Better Decisions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam B. Rouse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book represents the author's reflections on these engagements, associated challenges, and typical outcomes. These stories are reports about clients or sponsors' problems and how he and his colleagues went about addressing these problems of complexity, change, and decision making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam B. Rouse\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, as well as a Senior Fellow in the office of the Senior Vice President for Research, Professor Emeritus, and former Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Principal at Curis Meditor, a firm focused on the health of people, processes, organizations, and society. His research focuses on understanding and managing complex public-private systems such as healthcare delivery, higher education, transportation, and national security, with emphasis on the mathematical and computational modeling of these systems for policy design and analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRouse has written hundreds of articles and book chapters and has authored many books, including most recently \u003ci\u003eDesign of a Human-Centered Society\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2024), \u003ci\u003eBeyond Quick Fixes\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 2023), \u003ci\u003eBigger Pictures for Innovation\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2023), \u003ci\u003eTransforming Public-Private Ecosystems\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 2022), \u003ci\u003eFailure Management\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 2021), \u003ci\u003e Computing Possible Futures\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 2019), \u003ci\u003eUniversities as Complex Enterprises\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2016), \u003ci\u003eModeling and Visualization of Complex Systems and Enterprises\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2015), \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 2014), \u003ci\u003eEconomic Systems Analysis and Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2011), People and Organizations: Explorations of Human-Centered Design (Wiley, 2007), Essential Challenges of Strategic \u003ci\u003eManagement\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2001) and the award-winning \u003ci\u003eDon't Jump to Solutions\u003c\/i\u003e (Jossey-Bass, 1998). He has edited or co-edited numerous books including \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Complex Global Challenges\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2016), \u003ci\u003eEngineering the System of Healthcare Delivery\u003c\/i\u003e (IOS Press, 2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Human Systems Integration\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2010), \u003ci\u003eEnterprise Transformation: Understanding and Enabling Fundamental Change\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2006), \u003ci\u003eOrganizational Simulation: From Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation to Games \u0026amp; Entertainment\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2005), the best-selling \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Systems Engineering and Management\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 1999, 2009), and the eight-volume series \u003ci\u003eHuman\/Technology Interaction in Complex Systems\u003c\/i\u003e (Elsevier).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors (now Board on Human Systems Integration) of the National Academies, a member of the advisory committee for the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Academies, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the DoD Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation. He has been designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council and National Academies. Rouse is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has been elected a fellow of four professional societies -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRouse received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734074462271,"sku":"9781032913544","price":101.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bf37ffcfbcb127b05f7d4b2f50b4e8c8.webp?v=1765138551","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/essential-business-challenges-how-to-understand-complexity-address-change-and-make-better-decisions-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}