Fundamentals of Decision Making and Priority Theory With the Analytic Hierarchy Process (Analytic Hierarchy Process Series, Vol. 6)
This work is the outcome of many years research into a very practical, yet simple way to facilitate group decision making.  This book is about making decisions the natural way which we call the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).  There are two kinds of decisions: intuitive and analytical.  Intuitive decisions are not supported by data and documentation and may appear arbitrary.  A surprising amount of corporate decision making is of the intuitive type.  The person charged with making the decision accumulates a lot of information, probably biased by his own values, goes in a room and comes out with a decision.  This model is a poor basis from which to operate a large corporation. Analytical decision making, when used collectively in a corporation, leads to shared values.  Decisions that are required by corporations metamorphose from individual to strategic to portfolio decisions.  The Analytic Hierarchy Process is the way to introduce analytical decision making in!  your organization.