Decision Making for Leaders: The Analytic Hierarchy Process for Decisions in a Complex World, New Edition 2001 (Analytic Hierarchy Process Series, Vol. 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (701 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 096203178X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 323 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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. From the Publisher This book addresses the issue of how to structure a complex situatioin, identify its criteria and other factors whether intangible or concrete, measure the interactions among them in a simple way, and synthesize all the information to obtain priorities. The priorities can then be used in a fenefit/cost setting to develop portfolios of activities, one of the major concerns of organizations today
The publication of his books on the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the release of PC-based software such as SuperDecisions and web-based collaborative software such as Decision Lens have led to widespread dissemination of the process. He is best-known as being the modern mathematician who figured out a way to measure intangibles, and is the inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, a decision-making framework used f
Successful Book I believe this is a very good book to teach this subject from ground up. However, readers not so much experienced with computers get the wrong impression that one can't solve an AHP model without Expert Choice software, which is wrong! If you have adequate hands-on experience with Microsoft Excel, you will see that it is more than enou. Excellent book The content is definitely designed for managers and decision makers. The beginning chapters deal heavily with overall situation in which the reader must make a decision together with its consequences. The way the subjet is presented is excellent. Everyone knows that complex unstructured problems are hard to handle, but the approach thi. Good book for teaching This is a good book for teaching at the college level. It gives a light brush with the theory and shows how it can really be used to make actual decisions. Students like it.
It is suitable for business leaders and also is probably the best book for introducing the AHP to students at the college and graduate level. This book is about how to make decisions using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. In this fifth printing of the book the reader will find a new appendix containing real-life applications that validate the use of the fundamental scale of the AHP.. The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples