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  1. 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 ...
  2. Advanced Mode: Synthesize (Distributive, Normalization, AIP, CIS, User Priorities)

    When the Advanced mode is ON, you will see the advance options (if applicable) on Synthesize pages.  Ideal and Distributive Synthesis Results can be computed as an Ideal  mode (default) or D istributive  mode synthesis.  Originally, AHP ...
  3. BOPSAT

    BOPSAT is decision-making by a B unch of P eople S itting A round T alking, which is a management practice of using sometimes inexperienced committee members to make important decisions. 1    Even though there may be considerable preparation ...
  4. Validating Experiments

    Every day, people face decisions in domains as diverse as choosing among shampoos, stocks, medical treatments, and friends.  When people have not learned what to do through trial and error, they need a suite of generally applicable decision-making s...
  5. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

    The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. It was developed by Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s and has been extensively studied and refined since t...
  6. Iteration

    Iteration is the act of repeating a process to generate a sequence of outcomes, with the aim of approaching a desired goal, target, or result.  Each repetition of the process is also called an iteration .  The results of one iteration are used as...
  7. Sensitivity analysis

    Most, if not all, decisions are made under uncertain conditions.  Sensitivity analysis is a technique used to determine how different values of an independent variable impact a particular dependent variable under a given set of assumptions.  It  is ...
  8. Measures of consensus

    Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which group members develop, and agree to support, a decision in the best interest of the whole. Consensus decision-making is a dynamic way of reaching agreement between all members of...
  9. Measures of inconsistency

    Humans are unreliable decision makers because our judgments as humans are generally strongly influenced by irrelevant factors. 1  This is the expert opinion of Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences and a master in understandi...
  10. Synthesis

    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...