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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. Troubleshooting

    What could go wrong? Site at the FQD N specified in the setup.ini doesn't load or is not found You might not have access to the webserver. Try pinging it. IIS not installed or not configured properly. From the webserver with I...
  7. Comparion Sample Models

    What is a Model?   A model  is  a representation of a decision.   Comparion  is a structured decision-making tool designed to help organize and analyze  various factors  based on specific goals and  objectives . By providing a c...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...