Creative Decisions Foundation Events
Training
Dr. Rokou will introduce multi criteria decision making focusing on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. You will learn how to combine tangibles and intangibles in a decision making model and be shown how to decide when to pairwise compare and when to rate the alternatives. You will practice modeling complex systems by evaluating Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks.
We will then introduce Python programming language so you can learn how to use this tool to develop AHP models. The resulting models can be used by a single decision maker or a group of decision makers. With Python you can deploy questionnaires to collect data and use them to calculate results to support the decision.
Dr. Elena Rokou is the Chief Research Officer at Creative Decisions Foundation, the AHP/ANP research institute funded by Dr Thomas Saaty. She holds a PhD degree in the field of operational research, focusing on project scheduling and evolutionary algorithms from the National Technical University of Athens, Mechanical Engineering School, Sector of Industrial Management and Operational Research, a MSc in Management Engineering and a Software Engineering Diploma. Her main research interests cover project scheduling, optimization, evolutionary algorithms, MCDA and decision support tools.
Dr. Minutolo will focus on applications of AHP and how you take the AHP method and bring it into the strategic management and operations of a company. He will show you how to move from theory to practice.
Dr. Marcel Minutolo has been an entrepreneur and a business development consultant for over 25 years. He is currently a Professor of Strategic Management with a focus on artificial intelligence in the School of Business at Robert Morris University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in strategic management, data analytics, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility. He is an Amazon Web Services Accredited Instructor, an AWS certified Cloud Practitioner, and a Six Sigma Certified Black Belt. Dr. Minutolo has an earned Doctorate of Philosophy in Business Strategy from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Minutolo is a Distinguished Fellow with the International Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Pittsburgh and leads conflict resolution discussions. Dr. Minutolo has conducted research studies for Shell Appalachia, the United Way of Allegheny County, the National Collaborative for Gun Violence Research, and led the strategic planning process for many organizations. He is a former U.S. Army military intelligence company commander with multiple deployments.
The CDF Organizations
The International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP) is a biennial conference on multi-criteria decision analysis. It brings together researchers, teachers, students and users of AHP/ANP to share their research and experiences in decision making.
IJAHP is a scholarly journal that publishes papers about research and applications of the AHP and ANP
See our complete collection of books on decision making with the AHP and the ANP, the multiple criteria decision making theories created by Thomas L. Saaty. If you have to make complex decisions, by yourself or with others, read his original works.
The SuperDecisions is the only free educational software that implements the ANP and was developed by the team of the creator of the method, Thomas Saaty.