The Use of AHP for IT Project Priorization – A Case Study for Oil & Gas Company

Abstract

As market dynamics and complexity increase, the selection of IT projects, which are important to align enterprise operations and strategy, face challenges from cost-benefit related conception, to criteria for project definition. This research has the objective to present a case study for the process of adoption of a multi-criteria method through AHP -Analytic Hierarchy Process by a large Brazilian multinational company in the oil & gas segment. The authors prepared a descriptive qualitative research based on survey data from semi-structured interviews with key company professionals involved throughout the implementation process. The results obtained indicated that the company, based on a medium to long term strategic plan passed by the realignment in the criteria of the decision-making model, through the enhancement of demand and project portfolio prioritization under IT. The study also aims to explore from company´s senior management expectations up to the details on the challenges encountered during implementation and use of the method chosen by the corporation.

Analysis of methods for project prioritization in field of program management

“…Álvarez et al [12] prikazuju sprovođenje metode pri razmatranju infrastrukturnih projekata koji su od društvene važnosti. Da Silva & Camanho [13] u radu govore o mogućnostima primene metode u slučaju prioritizacije IT projekata. Dodatno, razrađuju studiju o primeni metode na primeru multinacionalne kompanije iz Brazila čija je delatnost orijentisana na naftu i gas.…”

“…Da Silva & Camanho [13] u svom radu o primeni pristupa prioritizacije IT projekata baziranog na AHPu, prikazuju uticaj ovakvog alata na rukovodioce kompanije i ostale učesnike po pitanju konflikata. Razlog zašto ovaj pristup ima dodatni značaj je izbegavanje bilo kakvih internih sukoba.…”

Development of a managerial tool for prioritization and selection of portfolio projects using the Analytic Hierarchy Process methodology in software companies

“…This technique considers quantitative and qualitative criteria. When a project is added or deleted from the list, the process must be repeated (Gupta et al, 2015;Kaiser et al, 2015;Neves & Camanho, 2015).…”

Pengembangan Framework Pengukuran Kinerja Rantai Pasok Perikanan Budidaya Tambak

“…Setelah didapatkan struktur hirarkinya, maka dilakukan pembobotan kriteria dan indikator menggunakan AHP. Saat ini, penggunaan AHP sangat luas pada berbagai bidang, diantaranya pemilihan proyek IT pada bidang manufaktur (Nevesa & Camanhob, 2015), untuk pemilihan human resources yang dikombinasikan dengan fuzzy dan TOPSIS (Kusumawardani & Agintiara, 2015), perencanaan armada baik udara (Dožić & Kalić, 2014), darat (Widyaningrum, 2018), dan juga laut (Lee & Han, 2018), proyek konstruksi (Rochikashvili & Bongaerts, 2016), rantai pasok (Tramarico dkk., 2015), menentukan suatu kebijakan (Pusporini & Vanany, 2017), dan lainlainnya. Struktur hirarki AHP mampu mengukur dan mengintegrasikan berbagai faktor dari proses pengambilan keputusan yang kompleks dengan cara hirarki, sehingga mudah untuk menggabungkan bagian secara keseluruhan (Russoa & Camanhob, 2015).…”