Henry Mintzberg, a world-renowned professor of management studies at McGill University, once said, "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science and craft meet." What Mintzberg did not ...

And, in what I hope is my last post on foreign policy realism for the day, I think there’s a general problem with the oft-elided distinction between descriptive and prescriptive realism. Descriptive ...

The approach is situational in that each problem must be approached individually, but the methodology can be viewed as a general heuristic. Thus, situational normativism involves a synthesis of ...

This paper attempts to search out the common ground between the normative, descriptive, and prescriptive modeling by exploring three types of axioms concerning structural rationality, preference ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...

Add to descriptive analytics, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics, a fourth category, automated analytics, writes CIO Journal Columnist Thomas H. Davenport. While systems that take ...

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