Group Decision Making Techniques

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 CPD

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.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the nominal group technique (NGT).
• Explain the fundamentals of preparing surveys.
• Summarize the Delphi method.
• Describe 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. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.