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  1. Inconsistency Ratio

    Overview The theory of AHP does not demand perfect consistency.  AHP allows inconsistency but provides a measure of the inconsistency in each set of judgments.  This measure is an important by-product of the process of deriving priorities base...
  2. Limitations of effective decision making

    Decision-making is hard because of various cognitive and organizational limitations such as limited memory capacity framing bias overconfidence politics groupthink loss aversion sunk costs endowment effect availability ...
  3. Models List

  4. Politics of Organizational Decision Making

    Organizational politics, also known as workplace politics or office politics, can be good or bad.  Some definitions include: The use of power and social networking within an organization to achieve changes that benefit the organization or indiv...
  5. Participants

  6. AIJ and AIP

    Prioritization and decision making is often performed in a group context.  There are two ways to aggregate individuals' judgments and preferences with AHP, depending on whether the group is assumed to act together as a synergistic group in achievin...
  7. Musts vs. Wants

    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...
  8. Qualitative judgment

    Qualitative judgments are subjective judgments based on factors or information that can't be easily or accurately quantified.  The importance of objectives, which is by definition subjective, is a qualitative judgment.   The anticipated performance...
  9. What is Collect Input?

    After structuring the hierarchy and defining the participant roles and defining the measurement methods, the next step is collecting input.  ( Note: iteration, or going back to change objectives or alternatives based on new knowledge is supported a...
  10. What is Define Model?

    is the first step in the decision process where we "structure" a decision model by identifying objectives, alternatives, and participants, and assigning roles to participants for providing judgments or data.  After structuring the hierarchy of ob...