Rands Portfolio Analysis Tool Pat

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation Technical Rep
ISBN 13 : 9780833048875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RAND's Portfolio Analysis Tool (PAT) written by Paul K. Davis and published by Rand Corporation Technical Rep. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a reference manual and user1s guide for RAND1s Portfolio Analysis Tool (PAT), a spreadsheet-based software application for facilitating decisions dealing with uncertainty and different perspectives. PAT generates summary depictions to address issues of balance, using a spreadsheet-based format. PAT assists high-level decisionmakers in framing their thinking about balance, constructing good multifaceted options, and making choices.

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833042149
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portfolio-analysis Methods for Assessing Capability Options written by Paul K. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research reported in this monograph is part of RAND's continuing work on practical theory and methods for capabilities-based planning in the Department of Defense (DoD) and other organizations. Its particular contribution is to describe and illustrate in some detail an analytic framework and methodology for defensewide capability-area reviews including DoD's experimental Concept Decision Reviews and related evaluations of alternatives (Krieg, 2007). The monograph also describes newly developed enabling tools -- one for generating and screening preliminary options and one for evaluating in a portfolio-analysis structure those options that pass screening. Variants of the methods can be applied for analysis across capability areas or for strategic-level defense planning, i.e., force planning to establish the overall mix and balance of capabilities. Finally, the monograph illustrates concepts with applications to the capability areas of Global Strike and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD).

Author : Paul Dreyer
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780833038012
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Portfolio-analysis Tool for Missile Defense (PAT-MD) written by Paul Dreyer and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RAND's Portfolio Analysis Tool for Missile Defense (PAT-MD) is a tool built using Microsoft EXCEL to support high-level discussion and decision-making in the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) by providing summary portfolio-style characterizations of investment options. These characterizations of alternative investment programs may involve: projected capabilities in different missions such as defense of the homeland from long-range missile attacks; the balance of emphasis across missions; the managing of risks; and economic considerations such as relative cost effectiveness. The portfolio-style depiction attempts to provide a holistic top-level view across all of these considerations, and to facilitate discussion of tradeoffs and adjustments of program. Equally important, PAT-MD and a companion tool make it possible to "zoom" to higher levels of detail so as to understand the basis of high-level characterizations and how they would change if assumptions or priorities were changed. The following paragraphs discuss both high-level characterizations and zooms.

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 083304219X
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Candidate Options for Investment written by Paul K. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes a methodology and prototype tool, the Building Blocks to Composite Options Tool (BCOT), for identifying good candidate options to use in investment analysis.

Author : Constantine Samaras
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833079115
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capabilities-Based Planning for Energy Security at Department of Defense Installations written by Constantine Samaras and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Department of Defense (DoD) installations rely on the commercial electricity grid for 99 percent of their electricity needs, but the U.S. electricity grid is vulnerable to disruption from natural hazards and actor-induced outages, such as physical or cyber attacks. Using portfolio analysis methods for assessing capability options, this paper presents a framework to evaluate choices among energy security strategies for DoD installations.

Author : Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000434206
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Management Theories and Models for Office Environments and Services written by Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion across multiple theories from different disciplines. Therefore, workplace researchers are not aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or could be studied. A lot of knowledge is lost between disciplines, and sadly, many insights do not reach workplace managers in practice. Therefore, this new book series is started by associate professor Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and postdoc researcher Vitalija Danivska (Aalto University, Finland) as editors, published by Routledge. It is titled ‘Transdisciplinary Workplace Research and Management’ because it bundles important research insights from different disciplinary fields and shows its relevance for both academic workplace research and workplace management in practice. The books will address the complexity of the transdisciplinary angle necessary to solve ongoing workplace-related issues in practice, such as knowledge worker productivity, office use, and more strategic management. In addition, the editors work towards further collaboration and integration of the necessary disciplines for further development of the workplace field in research and in practice. This book series is relevant for workplace experts both in academia and industry. This second book in the series focuses on the role of workplace management in the organization and the tasks that workplace management needs to consider. The 18 theories that are presented in this book and applied to workplace research discuss management aspects from the organization’s perspective or dive deeper into issues related to people and/or building management. They all emphasize that workplace management is a complex matter that requires more strategic attention in order to add value for various stakeholders. The final chapter of the book describes a first step towards integrating the presented theories into an interdisciplinary framework for developing a grand workplace management theory.

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 083304589X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portfolio-Analysis Methods for Assessing Capability Options written by Paul K. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical framework and methodology for capability-area reviews is described, along with new tools to support capabilities analysis and strategic-level defense planning in the Defense Department and the Services. BCOT generates and screens preliminary options, and the Portfolio-Analysis Tool (PAT) is used to evaluate options that pass screening. The concepts are illustrated with applications to Global Strike and Ballistic Missile Defense. Recommendations are made for further defense-planning research.

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833040391
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Theory and Methods for Supporting High Level Military Decisionmaking written by Paul K. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes an approach to high-level decision support for a Joint Forces Air Component Commander in combat operations or a Chief of Staff in defense planning. Its central theme is the fundamental importance of dealing effectively with uncertainty, whether in effects-based operations, building the Air Force's Commander's Predictive Environment, or planning future forces with the methods of capabilities-based planning. Because many features of the future cannot be predicted with reasonable confidence, it is better to proceed with the expectation of surprise developments and to have skill in recognizing adaptations and making them than it is to treat uncertainty merely as an annoyance. This report sketches the framework of a high-level decision-support environment that is top-down, expresses concepts in simple and intuitive language, deals explicitly with risk and uncertainty, and provides the capability for decisionmakers to readily discover and question the bases for key assumptions and assessments. It can accommodate both "rational-analytic" and "naturalistic" decisionmakers, allowing them to produce strategies that are flexible, adaptive, and robust (FAR). Two explicit methods and their related tools are described. The first involves portfolio-style thinking and analysis, a good mechanism for balancing risks and other considerations in choosing a course of action. The second is a novel modification of foresight exercises that addresses the need to include humans effectively in dealing with uncertainty. A more extensive discussion of available methods and enabling technologies is also presented, along with some recommendations about investment priorities.

Author : Henry H. Willis
Publisher : Technical Report (RAND)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring the Effectiveness of Border Security Between Ports-of-entry written by Henry H. Willis and published by Technical Report (RAND). This book was released on 2010 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of entry. Focusing on three missions--illegal drug control, counterterrorism, and illegal migration--this report recommends ways to measure performance of U.S. border-security efforts in terms of interdiction, deterrence, and exploiting networked intelligence.

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833038087
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implications of Modern Decision Science for Military Decision-support Systems written by Paul K. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selective review of modern decision science and implications for decision-support systems. The study suggests ways to synthesize lessons from research on heuristics and biases with those from "naturalistic research." It also discusses modern tools, such as increasingly realistic simulations, multiresolution modeling, and exploratory analysis, which can assist decisionmakers in choosing strategies that are flexible, adaptive, and robust.