Opportunities for Decision Analysis in Engineering Management

Ali Yassine, Kenneth Chelst

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    Abstract

    The engineering management (EM) decision-making (DM) environment in modern organizations is becoming increasingly complex. This is partly due to the technical complexity of systems being developed and the managerial complexity of orchestrating the decisions made by multidisciplinary teams, usually with conflicting goals and objectives. Systematic approaches, such as decision and risk analysis (DRA), can play a significant role in improving EM DM methods by providing efficient, effective, repeatable, and communicative DM processes, procedures, and guidelines. In this paper, we propose the use of the DRA paradigm to provide a standard and repeatable methodology for EM DM environments. We introduce and explore the four phases of the proposed DM process and discuss barriers to its use.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)151-161
    Number of pages11
    JournalIEEE Engineering Management Review
    Volume46
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Apr 2018

    Keywords

    • Engineering management
    • decision & risk analysis
    • decision making
    • decision management & maintenance
    • multiple objectives
    • uncertainty

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