Article ID: | iaor2008435 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 664 |
End Page Number: | 673 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2006 |
Journal: | Decision Support Systems |
Authors: | Yang Jian-Bo, Xu Dong-Ling, McCarthy G. |
Keywords: | artificial intelligence: decision support |
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.