Decision Making for Leaders: The Analytic Hierarchy Process for Decisions in a Complex World, New Edition 2001 (Analytic Hierarchy Process Series, Vol. 2) [Paperback]

Thomas L. Saaty (Author)

Book Description

Series: Analytic hierarcy process series | Publication Date: February 5, 2008

This book is about how to make decisions using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples. It is suitable for business leaders and also is probably the best book for introducing the AHP to students at the college and graduate level. In this fifth printing of the book the reader will find a new appendix containing real-life applications that validate the use of the fundamental scale of the AHP.

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This book addresses the issue of how to structure a complex situatioin, identify its criteria and other factors whether intangible or concrete, measure the interactions among them in a simple way, and synthesize all the information to obtain priorities. The priorities can then be used in a fenefit/cost setting to develop portfolios of activities, one of the major concerns of organizations today.

About the Author

Thomas Saaty holds the Chair of University Professor, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, and he has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale University. Previous to this position he was a professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and prior to that he was had the position of Scientist at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the US State Department, and was involved in conducting research to help with the arms reduction negotiations with the Soviets in Geneva. His current research is in decision-making, planning, conflict resolution and neural synthesis. He developed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and its generalization to feedback, the Analytic Network Process (ANP) and its software SuperDecisions. He is currently on the Board of the DecisionLens Corporation which has developed new AHP software. The AHP/ANP are concerned with decision-making, weapons tradeoffs, and resource allocation. He has written more than 300 articles and 33 books on mathematics, operations research and decision-making. His latest books are Theory and Applications of the Analytic Network Process: Decision Making with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks, and The Encyclicon: A Dictionary of Decisions with Dependence and Feedback based on the Analytic Network Process (with Müjgan Özdemir). He has consulted for many corporations and governments, and in 2005 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Product Details

• Paperback: 323 pages
• Publisher: RWS Publications; 3 Revised edition (February 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096203178X
• ISBN-13: 978-0962031786
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #925,591 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, March 28, 2000

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Jae Cha (Olathe, KS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Decision Making for Leaders: The Analytic Hierarchy Process for Decisions in a Complex World, New Edition 2001 (Analytic Hierarchy Process Series, Vol. 2) (Paperback)

The content is definitely designed for managers and decision makers. The beginning chapters deal heavily with overall situation in which the reader must make a decision together with its consequences. The way the subjet is presented is excellent. Everyone knows that complex unstructured problems are hard to handle, but the approach this book takes makes it much easier to swallow. The fact that it uses simple arithmetic is also a beautiful plus. I have burrowed several of its case studies to use in real life financial decisions

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Successful Book, November 24, 2006

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This review is from: Decision Making for Leaders: The Analytic Hierarchy Process for Decisions in a Complex World, New Edition 2001 (Analytic Hierarchy Process Series, Vol. 2) (Paperback)

I believe this is a very good book to teach this subject from ground up. However, readers not so much experienced with computers get the wrong impression that one can't solve an AHP model without Expert Choice software, which is wrong! If you have adequate hands-on experience with Microsoft Excel, you will see that it is more than enough to tackle even rather tough models like my colleagues and I did in the case of a model consisting of 8 criteria and 39 subcriteria. The good thing is that the book uses simple arithmetic throughout!

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for teaching, February 14, 2009

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This review is from: Decision Making for Leaders: The Analytic Hierarchy Process for Decisions in a Complex World, New Edition 2001 (Analytic Hierarchy Process Series, Vol. 2) (Paperback)

This is a good book for teaching at the college level. It gives a light brush with the theory and shows how it can really be used to make actual decisions. Students like it.