1st Edition
Evidence-Based Decision-Making How to Leverage Available Data and Avoid Cognitive Biases
Part I: Decision-Making Challenges
Chapter 1: Subjective Evaluations
Thinking and Games
Mind vs. Machine
Learning and Remembering
The Decision-Making Brain
Chapter 2: Non-Generalizable Objectivity
Familiar Clues
Anecdotal Evidence
Best Practices & Benchmarks
Non-Representative Samples
Chapter 3: Mass Analytics
Digitization of Life
Data as the New Normal
Data in Organizations
The Analytics Industry
Part II: Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 4: Evidence-Based Movement
The Practice and Science of Management
Evidence-Based Practice
The Road Ahead
Chapter 5: The Essence of Evidence
What is Evidence?
Empirical Evidence
Research Evidence
Experiential Evidence
Internalizing Evidence
Part III: The Empirical & Experiential Evidence Framework
Chapter 6: Probabilistic Thinking
Decision Uncertainty
Evidence Pooling
Cross-Type Amalgamation
Chapter 7: The 3E Framework
Organizational Decision-Making
The Empirical & Experiential Evidence Framework
Insight Extraction
Believability of Evidence
Chapter 8: Sourcing & Assessing: Operational Data
Data, Research, and Decision-Making
Probabilistic Analyses of Organizational Data
Operational Data and Databases
Getting Started with Operational Data
Exploring Operational Data
Exploratory Data Analysis
Confirmatory Data Analysis
Chapter 9: Sourcing & Assessing: Research, Norms, and JudgmentThematic Analyses of Empirical Research
Summarizing Norms & Standards
Pooling Expert Judgment
Part IV: Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Organizations
Chapter 10: Internal Design & Dynamics
Organizations as Human Collectives
Business Organizations
Organizations and Decision-Making
The 3E Framework & Organizational Dynamics
Chapter 11: External Forces & Influences
External Forces
Non-Systematic Influences
Biography
Dr. Andrew D. Banasiewicz is the director of data science and analytics programs at Merrimack College, a professor of business analytics at Cambridge College, and the founder of Erudite Analytics, a data analytical consultancy focused on risk assessment.
