Many Hands Make Work Light or Not? A Novel Tool for Group Decision Making with ANP

Abstract

Although every problem has multiple solutions, many restrictions and various ways to be addressed, there are also many techniques, methods and approaches proposed by scholars and practitioners that can be implemented to help increase our decision making effectiveness. The Forum will address this issue by engaging participants to reach a group decision using a new tool in the form of a Microsoft Excel Add-In that supports the Group Analytic Network Process (GANP) and it is integrated with the Super Decisions software. An illustrative case concerning the decision of a city council on how to use a community lot based on given alternatives (among a new parking lot, a hospital and sustainable landfill) and preselected criteria will be used during the Forum. The results of this game will provide significant insights for the group decision making process, explore the proposed techniques and bring out the advantages and disadvantages reported in literature.