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Keep Emotion Out of Decision Making: We've all had the experience of letting our emotions get the better of our actions. But in a business setting, emotional decisions can be costly -- and a quick way to lose your job. But how do you keep cool, calm, and collected in the high pressure...; Tags: decision-making, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Audit Decision Making: There is a fine line that an auditor must walk when documenting the results of a management systems audit. Determining the differences between a major non-conformance, minor non-conformance, and or observation can be difficult. This paper clarifies these audit decision making difficulties. Third party quality management system audits are meant...; Tags: Financial accounting, audit, Quality Management System, quality management, tool, performance; White papers 2008-04-20
3 Simple Principles Of Financial Decision Making: Do decisions about where to spend or invest the money make paralyzed? Take fear and stress out of the decision-making process by increasing your knowledge in three key areas. This paper explains three principles about financial decision making. The financial decision process moves to the specific investment or strategy itself....; Tags: Financial accounting, financial, decision-making, tax, knowledge, strategy; White papers 2008-04-05
Strategic Regional Decision-Making: A study was conducted to find out whether, and under what conditions, decisions could be made that focused on the welfare of the region rather than just on the parochial interests of individual jurisdictions and players. It was found that, eight years after the Partnership was formed, some of its...; Tags: Business structures, partnership, decision-making, agreement; White papers 2008-01-01
Affective Decision Making: A Behavioral Theory Of Choice: Affective Decision-Making ADM is a refutable and predictive theory of individual choice under risk and uncertainty. It generalizes expected utility theory by positing the existence of two cognitive processes - the "rational" and the "emotional" process. Observed choice is the result of their simultaneous interaction. This paper presents a model...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Yale University, decision-making, theory, insurance; White papers 2007-11-01

Make Sure Your Decision-Making Is Inside-Out: Typically, where do ideas for your investment decisions originate? For many investors, the starting point of the process is found in the impersonal "Outside" world of current events, magazine articles, and brokers' recommendations. Their decisions are primarily guided by outside considerations. As they respond to all the data thrown at...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making, financial; White papers 2007-12-01
Decision Yield: Does Your Decision-Making Measure Up?: As more and more customer-facing decisions are automated-from approving loans to pricing insurance to determine cross-sell offers-the determination of what constitutes a good decision becomes more complex. In fact, the more decisions are automated, the more potential they have for both positive and negative effects on your organization. To determine...; Tags: Fair Isaac Corp., decision-making, insurance, pricing strategy; White papers 2007-12-01
Modelling Negotiated Decision Making: A Multilateral, Multiple Issues, Non-Cooperative Bargaining Model With Uncertainty: The relevance of bargaining to everyday life can easily be ascertained, yet the study of any bargaining process is extremely hard, involving a multiplicity of questions and complex issues. The objective of this paper is to provide new insights on some dimensions of the bargaining process - asymmetries and uncertainties...; Tags: Uncertainty, Decision-making, Negotiation, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Free Trade, Finance; White papers 2007-07-01
Participatory Approach In Decision Making Processes For Water Resources Management In The Mediterranean Basin: This paper deals with the comparative analysis of different policy options for water resources management in three south-eastern Mediterranean countries. The applied methodology follows a participatory approach throughout its implementation and is supported by the use of three different software packages dealing with water allocation budget, water quality simulation, and...; Tags: Valuation, Decision-making, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Tools & Techniques, Investment, Management, Finance; White papers 2006-08-01
Risk Management In Strategic Decision Making: Risk management is not new. Insurance companies have been doing it for centuries. Unfortunately, they do not have an exemplary track record, as losses over the past decade have shown. Some risks have been badly managed and others completely overlooked. However, the industry's position has been changing rapidly over the...; Tags: Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial services, SECURITY, Towers Perrin, risk management, risk analysis, insurance, analysis, industry, information technology; White papers 2007-03-01
Inflation Targeting, Committee Decision Making and Uncertainty: The Case of the Bank of England's MPC: The transparency and openness of the monetary policymaking process at the Bank of England has provided very detailed information on both the decisions of individual members of the Monetary Policy Committee and the information on which they are based. In this paper we consider this decision making process in the...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Asset management, Financial services, Bank of England, inflation, asset price, foreign-exchange, interest rate, decision-making, equity, asset; White papers 2005-02-01
Risk Decision Making: Whose Call Is It?: A decision-maker will to some degree always apply his or her own personal risk tolerance to a decision. Consequently, if security leadership has been empowered to make major risk decisions, they should try very hard to be as aware as possible of business management's risk tolerances. If security leadership isn't...; Tags: Strategy, tolerance, business management, decision-making, security; White papers 2007-01-01
Lessons For Successful Automated Decision-Making From The Insurance Industry: Organizations that aspire to high performance have much to learn from the insurance industry over the last decade. Companies in that sector have been able to accelerate the transformation of insight to action by implementing automated decision-making in underwriting. By embracing innovative technologies and carefully managing their implementation, leading insurance...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Accenture Ltd., decision-making, insurance, high-performance; White papers 2004-11-01
Risk Management Is A Fundamental Component Of The Decision-Making Processes Of Dongbu Insurance: Risk management is a fundamental component of the decision-making processes of Dongbu Insurance. In fact, the Company's risk management system is integral to all business operations. In line with the Company's risk-management principles, relevant risks are constantly monitored, assessed, and controlled. The Risk Management Committee serves as the Company's decision-making...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Financial services, Strategy, SECURITY, risk management, decision-making, risk; White papers 2006-09-19
Active Learning for Decision-Making: This paper addresses focused information acquisition for predictive data mining. As businesses strive to cater to the preferences of individual consumers, they often employ predictive models to customize marketing efforts. This paper develops a new approach for active information acquisition that targets decision-making specifically. The method the author introduces departs...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Marketing research, decision-making, data mining, acquisition, marketing; White papers 2005-09-15
Individual Decision Making and Risk in Defined Contribution Plans: Defined contribution retirement plans expose retirement savers to financial market risks. The amount of risk and the link between financial market fluctuations and retirement income security depends on several choices that plan participants make. This paper describes the behavior of retirement savers who participate in the most common type of...; Tags: Financial accounting, payroll solutions, University of Illinois, defined contribution plan, financial market, 401(k) plan, financial, risk, decision-making, security; White papers 2005-09-14
Governance Structures and Decision-Making Roles in Inflation-Targeting Central Banks: This paper surveys decision-making roles of governing bodies of central banks that have formally adopted inflation targeting as a monetary framework. Governance practices seek to balance institutional independence needed for monetary policy credibility with accountability required to protect democratic values. Central bank laws usually have price stability as the primary...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Tools & Techniques, Financial services, IMF, inflation, decision-making, bank, accountability, survey; White papers 2005-09-01
Real-Time Event Management in Financial Markets: Competition, regulatory changes and market volatility necessitate extremely sophisticated decision making tools for financial institutions to thrive in this complex marketplace. Further, the data volumes that are generated in real-time (e.g., market data) or need to be analyzed (reference data, historical data) have also increased significantly. Today's market needs the...; Tags: Financial accounting, Engineering, GemStone, financial company, algorithm, financial market, financial, analytics, decision-making; White papers 2005-09-01
A Call for Participatory Decision-Making: Discussion Paper on World Bank-Civil Society Engagement: This paper explores the opportunities for more meaningful, empowering forms of participation in World Bank decision-making. First, it examines the challenges of improving public participation in the Bank's institutional governance, and in its operations at global, national, and local levels. Then, it proposes a set of principles and a framework...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Free trade, World Bank Group, World Bank, decision-making, bank, board; White papers 2005-06-15
Politics of Participatory Decision Making in Campus Governance: Governance of higher education involves the authority to make decisions about fundamental policies and practices in several critical areas concerning colleges and universities. Other issues of concern include degree requirements, standards expected in student performance, the quality of research and public service activities, the freedom available to individual faculty members...; Tags: Education, Governance, Decision-making, Dilemma, Managerial Accounting, Organizational Structure, Finance, Human Resources; White papers 2005-05-03