Strategic Decision Making: Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Navneet Bhushan, Kanwal Rai9781852337568, 1852337567, 1-85233-756-7

Problems with high stakes, involving human perceptions and judgements, and whose resolutions have long-term repercussions, call for a rational approach to their solution. The Analytic Hierarchy Process 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 the Analytic Hierarchy Process in these domains have created extensive results covering many complex planning, resource, allocation and priority setting problems throughout industry and business. В· Case studies drawn from years of successful, practical application experience. В· Discusses applications of decision making for real life problems. В· 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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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 8
Acknowledgements……Page 10
Part I. Strategic Decision-Making and the AHP……Page 12
1.1 Introduction……Page 14
1.2 Strategic Decision-Making Process……Page 15
1.3 Commonly Used Decision Analysis Tools……Page 17
1.4 Characteristics of a Formal Strategic Decision-Making Framework……Page 20
References……Page 21
2.1 Do You Need a Formal Decision-Making Framework?……Page 22
2.2 Formal Decision-Making Techniques……Page 23
2.4 The AHP – Step by Step……Page 26
2.5 AHP – Theory……Page 28
2.6 The AHP – Applications……Page 30
References……Page 31
Part II. Strategic Decision-Making in Business……Page 34
3.1 Introduction……Page 36
3.2 A Framework to Align Strategic Initiatives with Vision……Page 37
3.3 Consensus and Prioritisation Issues in Initiative Management……Page 40
References……Page 43
4.2 Mobile Computing Applications……Page 44
4.3 The Three Dimensions……Page 45
4.4 Killer Sure Scores of Mobile Computing Apps Using the AHP……Page 46
References……Page 51
5.1 Mobile Technologies……Page 52
5.2 Enterprise Wireless Strategies……Page 53
5.3 Factors Affecting Enterprise Wireless Strategies……Page 55
5.4 Using the AHP for Enterprise Wireless Strategies Evaluation……Page 56
6.1 Introduction……Page 62
6.2 Identifying Business Requirements (Step 1)……Page 64
6.3 Evaluate Software Vendors and Package Solutions (Step 2)……Page 68
6.4 Negotiation (Step 3)……Page 73
Appendix 6.1……Page 74
7.1 Early Software Effort Estimation and Techniques……Page 82
7.2 Software Size and Effort Estimation Methods……Page 84
7.3 A Systematic Approach to Early Software Estimation……Page 91
7.4 Conclusion……Page 103
Part III. Strategic Decision-Making in Defense and Governance……Page 108
8. Prioritising National Security Requirements……Page 110
9. Managing Crisis and Disaster……Page 136
10. Weapon Systems Acquisition for Defense Forces……Page 152
11. Evaluating the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) Index of Armed Forces……Page 164
12. Transition to Nuclear War……Page 174
L……Page 182
W……Page 183