March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
172 pages
4h 22m
English
Value Functions and Preference Weights
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
–Roy Disney
Objectives define the issues that matter in a given decision context. The result of the objectives structuring process discussed in the previous chapter is a hierarchy of fundamental objectives and a list of associated evaluation measures that define the quantitative measurement scales for each of the objectives.1 Figure 3.1 shows an example of an objectives hierarchy and a list of associated evaluation measures.
Figure 3.1. Example values, objectives, and evaluation measures for business decisions.
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