Strategic decision making [electronic resource] : applying the analytic hierarchy process / Navneet Bhushan and Kanwal Rai.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: Strategic decision making and the AHP Strategic decision making The analytic hierarchy process -- Part 2: Strategic decision making in business estimating software application development effort Vendor evaluation and package selection enterprise-wide wireless technology investment strategy Evaluating the technology proliferation at global level Evaluating market potential for IT investments Mergers and acquisitions -- Part 3: Strategic decision making in defence and governance Evaluating national security requirements Managing crisis and disaster Weapon system acquisition a complex decision making problem for the armed forces Evaluating.

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.

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