Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Thomas L. Saaty

ISBN 10: 1888603038 / ISBN 13: 9781888603033

Published by RWS Publications, 2004

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Interior is clean and unmarked. Some scuffing on exterior, particularly on back cover. Hardcover. LW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Publisher: RWS Publications
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888603038
• ISBN 13: 9781888603033
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: Fourth Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 36 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This newest printing of Creative Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making is a rich collection of ideas, incorporating research by a growing body of researchers and practitioners, profiles of creative people, projects and products, theory, philosophy, physics and metaphysics…all explained with a liberal dose of humor. Beautiful original paintings of the creative process have been added. Exercises at the end of each chapter help readers build their creative "muscles" and develop skills and the confidence to successfully meet challenges. Includes a powerpoint slide presentation that purchasers can download from the internet.

About the Author

Thomas L. Saaty is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches at the Pitt Graduate School of Business. He is best-known as being the modern mathematician who figured out a way to measure intangibles, and is the inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, a decision-making framework used for large-scale, multiparty, multi-criteria decision analysis, and of the Analytic Network Process, its generalization to decisions with dependence and feedback. Saaty is a member of National Academy of Engineering (2005), and in 2008 he received the Impact Prize from the Operations Research Society INFORMS for how the AHP has revolutionized the way we resolve complex decision problems. The publication of his books on the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the release of PC-based software such as SuperDecisions and web-based collaborative software such as Decision Lens have led to widespread dissemination of the process. The AHP has been applied worldwide to help decision makers in every conceivable decision context across both the public and private sectors, with literally thousands of reported applications.