Student Decision World Contest
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Hello everyone! Thank you for your interest in Student Decision World Contest: “Choosing the Best Computer to buy or recommend”. Participate, learn and possibly win a 8GB IPod Nano with video, a 2GB IPod Shuffle, or $25 iTunes gift card. Every participant will receive a free Comparion Core license a limited time The competition is open to any Undergraduate or Masters students in possession of an academic e-mail address (student@university.edu). (If you are a PhD, and want to learn more about Expert Choice, feel free to contact us as well.)
Start date: Today! Final submission date: December 29th 2009
You can get started now! Send me an E-mail at SDWcontest@expertchoice.com
Participating in this contest does not only mean spending your precious time to win an IPod; you will also learn and gain experience in using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) a powerful decision making methodology used by leaders in government, industry, and academia. Since Expert Choice will give participants access to Comparion Core for two months, at a minimum you will gain experience using a simple but powerful decision making tool.
Your challenge is to create the most accurate decision model for the topic: Choosing the best computer to buy or recommend. To do so, you will use Expert Choice’s software, Comparion Core. Comparion Suite is an easy-to-use solution for collaboration and prioritization, delivering transparent team decision-making, tight strategic alignment, and easy-to-communicate results.
Using Comparion to build your model, you will:
- Further define the decision goal.
- Structure the decision into objectives (and sub-objectives) that relate to the goal and select alternatives (in the case colleges and universities) to be evaluated.
- Select individuals to evaluate the model (friends, subject matter experts, etc.).
- Evaluate your mode collaborating with your team in real-time or any-time to prioritize objectives, evaluate alternatives, and incorporate quantitative data.
- Synthesize your team’s intuition and data and generate trade-offs and what-if scenarios. Use these outcomes to make better decisions with more alignment, buy-in, and confidence.
If you don’t have any ideas of what a decision model is; don’t panic! You can still participate. What we call a “decision model” is in fact a representation of the decision process. It’s a simple to create and includes: the criteria that mainly influence the decision (also called objectives), but also the alternative choices that we are facing along with many other data that could help us make a more accurate choices. Every participant will have access to plenty of resources and tutorial videos providing more detailed information.
You will be evaluated on the following criteria: the quality of your objectives, the pertinence of your alternatives, the respect of the guidelines, the use of appropriate stakeholders and the completion of a short PowerPoint presentation. Expert Choice’s employees will be the judges.
Registration is simple. Please send me an e-mail at SDWcontest@expertchoice.com from your college or university e-mail address. You will then be able to access Comparion Core to create your model as well as further description of the requirements. A confirmation e-mail with links to video tutorials and helpful hits will be then sent to you.
We already accept your submissions so I hope to see a lot of your models!
Al,
If you did not have the opportunity to join our “Introduction to Comparion” webinar, you can always watch the recording at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/111901656.
It will provide you with more information about Comparion Core and how to start a new decision model
Happy decision making!
