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Quick Help is custom help set up by the Project Manager to be shown during the evaluation process. The Project Manager can view and set up Quick Help (QH) from the QH icons found at the top right of every evaluation step. An empty Quick Hel...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information Criteria, Objectives, and Attributes are terms that are often used interchangeably when making decisions. Traditionally, people speak of criteria. We recommend focusing on "objectives" instead of criteria. This helps clarify what should and sho...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information Not all numbers have the same meaning in terms of what operations can be legitimately performed on them. In order for operations like addition and multiplication with numbers to be mathematically meaningful, the numbers must possess certain proper...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information Relative measurement in AHP is performed by comparing two elements, e.g., objectives or alternatives, one to another; whereas absolute measurement is performed on each element, e.g., alternatives, one at a time. There are several ways this is done ...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information AHP (along with other multiple objective methods --discussed below) differs in a significant way from most/all other Management Science/Operations Research methods which focus on an "objective" function – singular. Taking the "best" course of actio...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information Originally, AHP had only one synthesis mode – later called the "distributive" synthesis mode. A distributive synthesis distributes priorities from the goal down through the alternatives and is analogous to dividing priorities in a pie chart, which...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information Humans have difficulty dealing with more than seven - plus or minus two - factors at a time. To overcome this cognitive limitation, objectives can be structured into a hierarchy of clusters of elements. One of the axioms of AHP is that the element...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information A major challenge of almost all organizations today is to find a way to integrate the knowledge and expertise of their personnel in decision making and forecasting. In The Wisdom of Crowds , James Surowiecki shows that under certain conditions -...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information The ability for AHP to aggregate (synthesize) and filter (assign roles) is important for several reasons. Governance and Roles Power and control are distributed in organizations in a wide variety of ways. An effective decision process must r...
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Created On: 04/24/2020
in Additional Information Compensatory decision methodologies, such as AHP are the most effective way to prioritize alternatives. A rational decision is one that best achieves an individual's or group's objectives -- their wants. However, there are sometimes constraints, p...