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A Decision Science Applied to Talent

Understanding the Necessary Components

Chapter 1 defined the goal of the talentship decision science: “to increase the success of the organization by improving decisions that depend on or impact talent resources.” In this chapter we define the concept of a decision science and its necessary components. We concentrate here on the elements that characterize all successful decision sciences and how they apply to talent. Chapter 3 will more fully describe the specific decision framework that we use as a pillar of the talentship decision science—the framework that is the basis for much of the rest of this book.

Why a “Decision Science”?

In about 1999 we began using the term decision science to ...

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