Decision Making for Leaders: The Analytic Hierarchy Process for Decisions in a Complex World, New Edition 2001 (Analytic Hierarchy Process Series, Vol. 2)

This book is about how to make decisions using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The basics of the theory are described in a clear, non-technical manner with many examples. It is suitable for business leaders and also is probably the best book for introducing the AHP to students at the college and graduate level. In this fifth printing of the book the reader will find a new appendix containing real-life applications that validate the use of the fundamental scale of the AHP.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent book

By Jae Cha - March 28, 2000

The content is definitely designed for managers and decision makers. The beginning chapters deal heavily with overall situation in which the reader must make a decision together with its consequences. The way the subjet is presented is excellent. Everyone knows that complex unstructured problems are hard to handle, but the approach this book takes makes it much easier to swallow. The fact that it uses simple arithmetic is also a beautiful plus. I have burrowed several of its case studies to use in real life financial decisions

Successful Book

By Ersin Eker - November 24, 2006

I believe this is a very good book to teach this subject from ground up. However, readers not so much experienced with computers get the wrong impression that one can't solve an AHP model without Expert Choice software, which is wrong! If you have adequate hands-on experience with Microsoft Excel, you will see that it is more than enough to tackle even rather tough models like my colleagues and I did in the case of a model consisting of 8 criteria and 39 subcriteria. The good thing is that the book uses simple arithmetic throughout!

Good book for teaching

By bfletch - February 14, 2009

This is a good book for teaching at the college level. It gives a light brush with the theory and shows how it can really be used to make actual decisions. Students like it.