Springer Complex Strategic Choices: Applying Systemic Planning for Strategic Decision Making (Decision Engineering)

Institutions, including governments, and companies are faced with growing uncertainties in strategic decision-making that require the application of novel approaches. Here, new principles to help meet these challenges are supported by data and case studies. Review Elah Matt, Transport Reviews: "Overall, the book provides a well-conceived theoretical and empirical account of the systemic planning process. This approach can inform strategic decision-making by accounting for both quantitative and qualitative considerations. Systemic planning can therefore prove to be valuable for scholars and practitioners in a variety of disciplines, including transport studies." (Elah Matt, Transport Reviews, Vol 32 (6), Novmeber, 2012) Amazon.com review:   Amazon.com: 4.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful for public works project selection and evaluation  7 Dec 2013 By Eric Bruun - Published on Amazon.com   The title doesn’t really tell the prospective reader enough to decide whether this book requires a closer inspection. If you are concerned with designing, evaluating or selecting major public works projects that can have a wide impact across a community for many years to come, this book is for you. It addresses the need to have additional tools available besides the conventional monetary cost-benefit analysis. The author and his team at the Technical University of Denmark have incorporated risk, non-monetizable costs and benefits, and relative importance of project goals into their pathbreaking methods. This book provides both a theoretical discussion of what a more full decision making process should look like and explains some practical tools that they have already developed to help move in this direction. It also provides examples from some actual multicriteria analyses recently performed in Scandinavia. I highly recommend it.   Eric Bruun, Aalto University Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering. From the Back Cover Effective decision making requires a clear methodology, particularly in a complex world of globalisation. Institutions and companies in all disciplines and sectors are faced with increasingly multi-faceted areas of uncertainty which cannot always be effectively handled by traditional strategies. Complex Strategic Choices provides clear principles and methods which can guide and support strategic decision making to face the many current challenges. By considering ways in which planning practices can be renewed and exploring the possibilities for acquiring awareness and tools to add value to strategic decision making, Complex Strategic Choices presents a methodology which is further illustrated by a number of case studies and example applications. Dr. Techn. Steen Leleur has adapted previously established research based on feedback and input from various conferences, journals and students resulting in new material stemming from and focusing on practical application of a systemic approach. The outcome is a coherent and flexible approach named systemic planning. The inclusion of both the theoretical and practical aspects of systemic planning makes this book a key resource for researchers and students in the field of planning and decision analysis as well as practitioners dealing with strategic analysis and decision making. More broadly, Complex Strategic Choices acts as guide for professionals and students involved in complex planning tasks across several fields such as business and engineering. About the Author Steen Leleur is professor of decision support systems and planning at DTU Transport at the Technical University of Denmark - DTU. He is an experienced transport planner, who has participated in numerous activities especially in the fields of national and international strategic transport planning studies, transport investment planning, road project appraisals and road project priority scheme studies. Steen Leleur has worked out, among other things, several t