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Example: Cell phone selecting

Selecting the cell phone with Analitical Hierarchy Process




 

 

I want to buy a cell phone.
I do not know how to choose one among three models which I like.



   
 
 
   

Maybe AHP can help you.

 

Hi!
What's
up?


 
I want to buy a cell phone,
 but
I do not know
how to decide which
one to
buy.
 
 A, H, what?

 
AHP
(Analytical
Hierarchy
Process)
is
a process
 for developing
a numerical score
to rank
each
decision alternative based on how well each alternative meets the decision maker’s criteria.
  It sounds
to 
complicated
to me.
But, let's
try. 


 What characteristics of cell  phone are important to you?
 
Well, I want it to be good quality, to work properly and  as expected all the time, then battery life that it is not short. Of course, it is important to look nice and to have other useful features like mp3 player, camera with high resolution, radio and some other stuff.

Great! So, your criteria by which
 you will choose ideal cell phone
 for you are the quality, life
 battery, design, and
 other features.
 

Yes!          
 
  Let's show it like this :  Which criteria is the most important to you?
 
                  And now what?
 


Well, the quality is for me more important then life battery ...and design a little more important
then quality. I would not like to
 have an ugly cell phone with
good quality, and then I do not
 want it to have low battery even
 if it is well designed cell phone.
 Uh, it is hard for me to define
the rank of criteria. 


 No problem.
AHP is
ideal
 method
 for such
situations.

On
123ahp.com
on the
scale 1-9
select the
importance
 of
each
criteria
to another
 one to get
their
ranking.
 

 In the same principle compare the cell
 phones by each criteria.
 
 Hm, it looks simple.
 I entered all my preferences.

 O.K.
By
the last
 click you
 get
the result.
Rank of
alternatives
 and criteria
will
show up.


 
 
So, this is the cell phone that best fits my
preferences and criteria.

         For more details you can
click on the "details".
   Aditionaly you can make a detailed
   analysis and compare the ranked
   alternatives with costs or check the
   similar case in decision library.
  

   What if I change my mind in some preference
 or criteria?


 
Simply
change
selected value
on the scale
 and you
 can go
 back on
any step.
By free
registration
you can save
your
calculation
of decision
 process
and later
change it.
You can also
 propose
 for others
 your calculation
 or template
 and go through
 decision library.


    

Great!

No more problems

with decision making for me!

 

     






Is that

AHA

effect

in your

case?

 

 

Wait a minute! I can select in the
 same method
cars, house, suppliers,
projects and etc. Right?

Just to a minute!
You are decision maker!
123ahp.com is excellent tool
 that can help you to make it
 and analyze it.
Based on your preferences
and your criteria it is your
responsibility. You are making
your choice and your decision. 
 







I got it!                                        

 
My choice, My decision



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