Applications, Components and Libraries for Software Developers
ChoiceAnalyst Decision Models
Building a ChoiceAnalyst model only requires filling in 3 screens; Choices, Criteria, and Decision Makers. For this example we will assume there are 5 employees under consideration by 3 managers for a promotion.
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Type the names of the 5 employees under consideration. |
Type in the criteria that will be used to judge the employees for the promotion. Since each criterion might carry a different level of importance, you can reflect that by listing their respective "weighted" values. |
In more complex problems, there exists another factor that affects the outcome of a decision, and that is the number of people involved in making the decision. Left to a discussion in the absence of a structured process, one particular decision maker may affect the outcome of the decision simply by his or her ability to persuade others to make a particular choice, rather than their having considered all of the possibilities objectively.
With ChoiceAnalyst you can list each “Decision Maker” participating in the decision process. Since the various decision makers could bring different values to the particular problem being solved, you can also assign a “weighted” value to each of them. Here you type the names of the 3 managers and, based on their oversee experience of these employees you assign a weighted value to their judgments.
That's all it takes to define a decision model in ChoiceAnalyst. Could it be any easier?
