It is a complicated multi-stage decision-making process, which involves groups of decision makers.
But our findings suggest that groups of decision-makers should also pre commit to a strategy for combining their opinions.
A multi-criteria game is developed to model a decision problem in which three groups of decision-makers (i.e., operators, regulators and service engineers) are involved.
Furthermore, as the case with most energy-related decisions, various groups of decision makers are involved.
In many Global 2000 companies, there are multiple groups of decision-makers or influencers involved, including product users, IT gatekeepers, administrative or executive groups and compliance teams, any of which can slow down your sales process.
They investigated a simplified methodology for ranking transportation projects by using an integrated multiple criteria decision making process for prioritizing transportation projects when there are groups of decision makers with multiple opinions and biases [13].
Then paired comparison was done by three groups of decision maker consist of transportation experts, airport specialists and authorities besides employees and Sari inhabitants that used this airport more than five times.
Every questionnaire underwent this process and then the arithmetic average of resulted weights in each of the three groups of decision maker was calculated and then the arithmetic average of all three groups in the form of weight vector W T was calculated.
Members of our research team have previously conducted focus groups of decision support tools [ 69, 70] and development of QIs [ 71, 72].
A first step was identified, by the interviewees, with regard to the policy field, namely the need to make a distinction between different groups of decision makers, and the view that the network should address the science-policy interface by providing clear and concrete policy recommendations, relevant to the different groups of decision-makers.
