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  1. Demote existing Project Organizer/Workgroup Manager

    You may want to demote your existing Project Organizer or Workgroup Manager to Workgroup Member.  To do this: 1. Go to Workgroup Participants page  2. Check the check box to the left of the participant you want to demote 3. Click Set Permissio...
  2. Manage Participant Groups

    You can add, edit and delete the participants' groups from DEFINE MODEL > Define Participants & Roles > Participants Groups page.   Participant Groups can be used when: Setting up roles and  Displaying results Groups are displayed a...
  3. Endowment effect

    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...
  4. Time Periods Settings

    You can manage the Time Periods in Allocate > TIME PERIODS SETTINGS .  Below is a sample of a scenario with Time Periods.  Time Periods allows you to have one or more sets of alternatives that will span one or more periods. You can specify Ti...
  5. Dependencies Constraints

    Dependencies are one of the constraints that can be defined when determining the alternatives to be funded in Resource Allocation .  You can display the dependencies in Table  or List  view.  Dependencies are displayed in the Table view by defa...
  6. Single Pairwise Verbal Comparisons

    Pairwise Verbal can be used to express your judgment about the relative importance or preference or likelihood of the two elements.  In the example below, we are asked to compare the relative importance of the two objectives  (Cost of Ownership an...
  7. Application Preferences

    To access the Application Settings, click your account name at the upper right and then select Personal Settings:  Enable autologon on the first start - grants or denies users the autologon on Comparion (if email and password are remembere...
  8. Nutshell briefings

    The nutshell briefing rule is a quick and easy approach to decision making that can sometimes save time and effort in arriving at adequate judgments; however, reliance on such rules more often results in judgmental errors and can create grossly misl...
  9. Utility Curve

    Utility curves are used to convert data into ratio scale priorities.  Utility curves can be increasing or decreasing, linear or non-linear. In the example below we are asked to enter data (Initial Cost: 20,195) for the alternative "Toyota Camry." ...
  10. Counterproductive strategies

    To cope with the limitations of decision making, managers have resorted to various decision-making strategies, such as Intuition BOPSAT Rules of thumb Heuristics Simple tradeoffs Nutshell briefings Satisficing Misuse of numbe...