The Company and People Balance Technologies Balance Technologies was created to develop real world applications of the research work of Dr. John S. Anderson. Our primary goal is to provide automated tools and support which facilitate and improve the decision making process.
Research suggests humans can only process about seven pieces of information at a time.
Yet we often make decisions which involve many more than seven criteria and alternatives. To help decision makers get a balanced view of a decision, the criteria and the alternatives, John developed an automated decision matrix. Automation of the decision process and the matrix have proven useful in many settings. Different versions of the software have been and are being developed in the fields of resource management, environmental planning, land-use planning and fire management. Dr. John S. Anderson John received a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University.