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Jeffrey Keisler

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Core Competencies, Core Values And Core Compromises, Jeffrey Keisler, Edward Romar Dec 2018

Core Competencies, Core Values And Core Compromises, Jeffrey Keisler, Edward Romar

Jeffrey Keisler

To achieve success businesses enunciate values and mission, secure resources, develop capabilities, and execute strategies.  For firms to succeed, managers must make decision about what should remain, be abandoned and acquired or developed?  In the decision-making process, management often overlooks, compromises, neglects, and dismisses the firm’s history, unique industry position, and fundamental strengths in a single-minded focus on the future.  In this paper we discuss one aspect of strategy that is neglected in the literature.  Most of the literature focuses on strategy and competencies, with little focus on or awareness of its opposite, the compromises management makes as they look …

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An Invitation To Portfolio Decision Analysis, Ahti Salo, Jeffrey Keisler, Alec Morton Dec 2010

An Invitation To Portfolio Decision Analysis, Ahti Salo, Jeffrey Keisler, Alec Morton

Jeffrey Keisler

Portfolio Decision Analysis (PDA) – the application of decision analysis to the problem of selecting a subset or portfolio from a large set of alternatives – accounts for a significant share, perhaps the greater part, of decision analysis consulting. By construction, PDA has a sound theoretical and methodological basis, and its ability to contribute to better resource allocation decisions has been demonstrated in numerous applications. This book pulls together some of the rich and diverse efforts as a starting point for treating PDA as a promising and distinct area of study and application. In this introductory chapter, we first describe …

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