Intelligent decision system and its application in business innovation self assessment
Decision Support SystemsPublished 27 May 2005
Dong‐Ling Xu, Grace McCarthy, Jianbo Yang
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It is demonstrated that IDS is a flexible tool capable of handling different types of data in self-assessment, including uncertain and incomplete data, and providing a wide range of information including scores, performance diversity, strength and weakness profile and graphics.
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In this paper, it is described how a multiple criteria decision analysis software tool, the Intelligent Decision System (IDS), can be used to help business self-assessment. Following a brief outline of a model for assessing business innovation capability and the IDS software, the process of using IDS to implement different types of assessment questions is discussed. It is demonstrated that IDS is a flexible tool capable of handling different types of data in self-assessment, including uncertain and incomplete data, and providing a wide range of information including scores, performance diversity, strength and weakness profile and graphics. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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