Strategic Decision Making: Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process

✍ Scribed by Dr. Rajkumar Roy (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 174
• Series: Decision Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Problems with high stakes, involving human perceptions and judgements, and whose resolutions have long-term repercussions, call for a rational approach to their solution. Strategic Decision Making provides an effective, formal methodology that gives assistance to such strategic level decision making problems. Focusing on applying the AHP to decision-making problems in engineering, Strategic Decision Making explores the three main endeavours of human existence: business, defence and governance. Many years of successfully applying Strategic Decision Making in these domains have created extensive results covering many complex planning, resource, allocation and priority setting problems throughout industry and business. Case studies drawn from years of successful, practical application experience. Discusses applications of decision making for real life problems. Worked examples and solutions to problems throughout. The reader will gain comprehensive exposure to the extent of assistance that a formal methodology, such as AHP, can provide to the decision maker in evolving decisions in complex and varied domains. Decision makers, in business and industry around the world, will find this valuable for practical use as a working tool.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Strategic Decision-Making....Pages 3-10
The Analytic Hierarchy Process....Pages 11-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Aligning Strategic initiatives with Enterprise Vision....Pages 25-32
Evaluating Technology Proliferation at Global Level....Pages 33-40
Evaluating Enterprise-wide Wireless Adoption Strategies....Pages 41-50
Software Vendor Evaluation and Package Selection....Pages 51-70
Estimating the Software Application Development Effort at the Proposal Stage....Pages 71-96
Front Matter....Pages 98-98
Prioritising National Security Requirements....Pages 99-123
Managing Crisis and Disaster....Pages 125-140
Weapon Systems Acquisition for Defense Forces....Pages 141-152
Evaluating the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) Index of Armed Forces....Pages 153-162
Transition to Nuclear War....Pages 163-170
Back Matter....Pages 171-172

✦ Subjects

Operations Research/Decision Theory;Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering;Systems and Information Theory in Engineering;Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing;Construction Management;Business Infor