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Supernumerary Intelligence - A New Approach to Analytics for Managers (Hardcover): John W. Dickey, Ian A. Birdsall, G. Richard... Supernumerary Intelligence - A New Approach to Analytics for Managers (Hardcover)
John W. Dickey, Ian A. Birdsall, G. Richard Larkin, Kwang Sik Kim
R2,962 Discovery Miles 29 620 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Much of our life is consumed looking for quantitative relationships. For example, How much more sleep do I need at night to make me feel better? How many calories do I need to eliminate to lose weight? How much larger does my budget on the job need to be for me to be more effective? All these quantitative questions are preceded, and depend on, qualitative questions. For example, before I decide how much extra sleep I need at night, I need to determine if extra sleep will actually make me feel better. In another example, I need to determine if a larger budget will make me more effective on the job, before I think about how much more money I will need. What elements influence job performance, and how do they interact? We spend much of our life trying to find answers to such quantitative and qualitative questions. We are, then, in search of a kind of intelligence that includes numbers but is also above and beyond them. We call it "supernumerary" intelligence (SI). To aid our quest for SI, we use Quantitative CyberQuest (QCQ) and the Public Administration Genome Project (PAGP) as useful tools. QCQ is a philosophy as well as an analytic tool that helps in exploring the supernumerary. QCQ is particularly wellsuited for sorting out variables as well as their interrelations. It involves a combination of statistics, systems analysis, research methodology, qualitative research, and artificial intelligence. QCQ also provides a relatively easy to understand but still powerful set of tools and guidancemechanisms to pilot (the "Cyber" part) users in their "Quest" for supernumerary relationships.

The Public Administration (P. A.) Genome Project - Capturing, Mapping, and Deploying the ""Genes"" of P. A. (Hardcover, New):... The Public Administration (P. A.) Genome Project - Capturing, Mapping, and Deploying the ""Genes"" of P. A. (Hardcover, New)
John W. Dickey
R2,950 Discovery Miles 29 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What is it? The Public Administration Genome Project (PAGO) is a grand attempt to digitally 'map' and then usefully employ the full set of topics, variables, and interrelationships that comprise and involve all of the 'genes' that make up public administration. It is based on the highly regarded and useful Human Genome Project. Why do it? Like the world in general, the P. A. world is becoming more diverse and complicated. Hence, few administrators can be expected to know, much less remember, the many relevant strategies, external forces and related impacts that might be part of a particular situation. There thus is a need for a comprehensive, logic-based, readily accessible system (called 'COMPASS') to help in finding and elaborating on such topics, variables, and interrelationships. What is in the book? It starts with a broad overview of the whole PAGP. It then turns to an elaboration of both the basic and then the more comprehensive analogies with the human genome; the Human Genome Project; and other related concepts (like catalysis and evolution). These are followed by a set of new and seemingly unconnected subjects: norms for citizens and public administrators, and semantic and syntactic analyses. Then come some interesting and diverse case studies, and comparisons of such to theories. All these set the scene for development of procedures for contributing to and using COMPASS, the information and guidance system which is the central product of the PAGP. The whole concept of the PAGP subsequently is revisited through an example that encompasses all of its major elements and processes. The last part of the book focuses on future directions, asking questions like 'Is the PAGP (and COMPASS) an impossible dream or a much needed reality?'

Metropolitan Transportation Planning (Hardcover, 2nd edition): John W. Dickey Metropolitan Transportation Planning (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
John W. Dickey
R5,959 Discovery Miles 59 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book concentrates on a transportation planning process, and focuses on transportation problems. It emphasizes the planning process, identification of problems and goals, data collection, and solution implementation.

Metropolitan Transportation Planning (Paperback, 2nd edition): John W. Dickey Metropolitan Transportation Planning (Paperback, 2nd edition)
John W. Dickey
R4,537 Discovery Miles 45 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book concentrates on a transportation planning process, and focuses on transportation problems. It emphasizes the planning process, identification of problems and goals, data collection, and solution implementation.

Supernumerary Intelligence - A New Approach to Analytics for Managers (Paperback): John W. Dickey, Ian A. Birdsall, G. Richard... Supernumerary Intelligence - A New Approach to Analytics for Managers (Paperback)
John W. Dickey, Ian A. Birdsall, G. Richard Larkin, Kwang Sik Kim
R1,821 Discovery Miles 18 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Much of our life is consumed looking for quantitative relationships. For example, How much more sleep do I need at night to make me feel better? How many calories do I need to eliminate to lose weight? How much larger does my budget on the job need to be for me to be more effective? All these quantitative questions are preceded, and depend on, qualitative questions. For example, before I decide how much extra sleep I need at night, I need to determine if extra sleep will actually make me feel better. In another example, I need to determine if a larger budget will make me more effective on the job, before I think about how much more money I will need. What elements influence job performance, and how do they interact? We spend much of our life trying to find answers to such quantitative and qualitative questions. We are, then, in search of a kind of intelligence that includes numbers but is also above and beyond them. We call it "supernumerary" intelligence (SI). To aid our quest for SI, we use Quantitative CyberQuest (QCQ) and the Public Administration Genome Project (PAGP) as useful tools. QCQ is a philosophy as well as an analytic tool that helps in exploring the supernumerary. QCQ is particularly wellsuited for sorting out variables as well as their interrelations. It involves a combination of statistics, systems analysis, research methodology, qualitative research, and artificial intelligence. QCQ also provides a relatively easy to understand but still powerful set of tools and guidancemechanisms to pilot (the "Cyber" part) users in their "Quest" for supernumerary relationships.

The Public Administration (P. A.) Genome Project - Capturing, Mapping, and Deploying the ""Genes"" of P. A. (Paperback, New):... The Public Administration (P. A.) Genome Project - Capturing, Mapping, and Deploying the ""Genes"" of P. A. (Paperback, New)
John W. Dickey
R1,602 Discovery Miles 16 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What is it? The Public Administration Genome Project (PAGO) is a grand attempt to digitally 'map' and then usefully employ the full set of topics, variables, and interrelationships that comprise and involve all of the 'genes' that make up public administration. It is based on the highly regarded and useful Human Genome Project. Why do it? Like the world in general, the P. A. world is becoming more diverse and complicated. Hence, few administrators can be expected to know, much less remember, the many relevant strategies, external forces and related impacts that might be part of a particular situation. There thus is a need for a comprehensive, logic-based, readily accessible system (called 'COMPASS') to help in finding and elaborating on such topics, variables, and interrelationships. What is in the book? It starts with a broad overview of the whole PAGP. It then turns to an elaboration of both the basic and then the more comprehensive analogies with the human genome; the Human Genome Project; and other related concepts (like catalysis and evolution). These are followed by a set of new and seemingly unconnected subjects: norms for citizens and public administrators, and semantic and syntactic analyses. Then come some interesting and diverse case studies, and comparisons of such to theories. All these set the scene for development of procedures for contributing to and using COMPASS, the information and guidance system which is the central product of the PAGP. The whole concept of the PAGP subsequently is revisited through an example that encompasses all of its major elements and processes. The last part of the book focuses on future directions, asking questions like 'Is the PAGP (and COMPASS) an impossible dream or a much needed reality?'

CyberQuest - Problem Solving and Innovation Support System, Conceptual Background and Experiences (Paperback): John W. Dickey CyberQuest - Problem Solving and Innovation Support System, Conceptual Background and Experiences (Paperback)
John W. Dickey
R1,611 Discovery Miles 16 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"CyberQuest" is a multimedia software and hardware system created to assist such areas as problem solving, strategic planning, design and more general innovation support. It is intended to help individuals and groups in industry and government come up with ideas and ways to implement them. The book's goals are to describe the nature of this new concept of a problem solving and innovation support and to capture and generalize on many of the experiences that have assisted the author in this endeavor to create "CyberQuest."

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