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In Group Decision Making Techniques, you'll learn ...
- Condorcet’s Principle
- How to apply Borda’s Function
- Expert Opinion/Group Participation
- Brainstorming and Brainwriting
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 27 pages
Sometimes it is necessary to get the consensus of a group of individuals and extract their ideas and expert opinion for making decisions. Group decision-making techniques are methods that we can use to accomplish this. In this course, you will learn several robust group decision-making techniques that fall into the broad classification of a social choice function and expert opinion/group consensus. Depending on the group expertise, dominance, and political nature of the various decision-makers involved in the process, you may choose to apply different group decision-making techniques based on the group’s composition.
It is also helpful to use group decision making when only subjective data is available. Because it is hard to look into the future, sometimes the only resource you may have to get a forecast of future events is to poll experts in the field and use their expert opinion in the process. Methodologies discussed facilitate obtaining a weighted group consensus on future events.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding of the Nominal Group Technique (NGT)
- The fundamentals of preparing surveys
- Understanding of the Delphi Method
- Understand of the Successive Proportional Additive Numeration (SPAN) method
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 27 pages
