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Last Updated: 10/25/2021
in Allocate Summary Relevant Constraints are constraints that are used by the optimizer for that scenario. If a relevant constraint is removed or modified, the current solution will change. You can select a scenario using the scenario drop-down and download t...
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Intuitive decision-making is described as the process by which information, acquired through associated learning and stored in long-term memory, is accessed unconsciously to form the basis of a judgment or decision. 1 Intuition is based on the i...
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Management by Objectives (MBO) as a concept first appeared in a 1954 book The Practice of Management . The author, Peter Drucker, has since become known as one of the world’s most influential business experts. Management by Objectives is ...
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Last Updated: 10/28/2021
in Additional Information When an individual or small group derives priorities in an AHP model, they can evaluate either from the top down (from goal to objectives to alternatives) or bottom up (from alternatives, to covering objectives, to top level objectives). A to...
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The Endowment Effect , an emotional bias, is the hypothesis that people will value something they already own more than a similar item they don’t own. This happens even when there is no cause for attachment or even if the item was only obtained li...
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Synthesis involves putting together or combining parts into a whole. Analysis - the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements - is the opposite of synthesis. 1 Organizations have become quite good at doing analys...
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Last Updated: 10/25/2021
in Allocate Portfolio Assessment Scenario Comparisons lets you view several scenarios side by side, making it easy to compare the alternatives properties, objective priorities, and constraints side by side. You can select the scenarios to display using the Scenarios drop-down: ...
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A gradient analysis shows the rate of change of the priorities of alternatives with respect to the change in priority of one of the objectives. Each gradient sensitivity is composed of: An objective on the x-axis -- which can be selected fro...
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Representativeness is the tendency to over/underestimate based on generalizations or imprecise deductive reasoning, or where certain important pieces of information are overlooked. The Representativeness heuristic is commonly used when making judg...
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The Project Manager can show or hide the Sensitivity Analysis at the end of the Collect Input steps. The purpose of the sensitivity analyses is to graphically see how the alternative priorities would change if the priorities of the objectives or ...