The situation, company, and team you’re working with might be wildly different, but the elements of coming to the best decision will stay the same. “Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible-one-way doors and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. The decision-making frameworks above should cover just about every scenario you can imagine. But what’s just as important as knowing what framework to use is knowing when you should or shouldn’t use one. All that’s left is capturing the choice and communicating it to the rest of the team.

• (2) The second stage involved pre-processing operations (to unify the coordinate system of the layers) and spatial analysis in GIS (to prepare criteria maps).
• The authors summarized and synthesized the findings into themes, subthemes, tables, and models.
• However, it’s impossible to compare them and select the best one as they all serve different purposes and suit different situations.
• Again, the numbers reflect my confidence that the following unknowns will turn out positively.
• This optimistic approach has maximum risk tolerance and no trade-off (Mahmood et al., 2023).

Under the most optimistic scenario, all urban districts had high-potential vacant lands. Under this scenario, 100% of vacant lands located in districts 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, and 20 had a very high potential, while this value for districts 1 and 22 was about 1%. The lowest percentage of vacant lands with very high potential was in District 5 at about 12%. With the increase in the degree of optimism in the decision-making process, the percentage of high-potential vacant lands increased in all urban areas. Criterion weights are given by considering the decision maker’s preference for a certain criterion or feature in the study area (Malcezewski, 2006). This is because the relative importance of that criterion is determined compared to other existing criteria, but order weights are assigned based on the location of cells of layers and maps (Xu, 2005).

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The proper distribution of these centers in terms of political and social dimensions can drive economic growth and reduce regional inequality. Therefore, this study assessed the potential of urban vacant lands based on SMCDM for the construction of a shopping center in the 22 decision making framework districts of Tehran. The results showed that accessibility criteria (such as distance from highways) have more weight and importance than other criteria for the construction of shopping centers. The southern and southeastern regions of the study area had a higher potential.

BRIDGeS has combined all the best from those solutions to help you handle complexity, set priorities, and solve your business or personal problem in just one session. Weights calculated based on BWM for effective criteria in determining suitable locations. Based on our research questions, we found several terms and their various definitions in the literature pertaining to SE in policy and decision-making, shown in Table 2. We encountered an overlapping set of vocabularies pointing to student engagement.

The 4 DACI roles

Participatory Decision Making emphasizes involving relevant stakeholders in the decision-making process. By promoting collaboration, inclusivity, and collective ownership of decisions, it enhances both the quality of decisions and the commitment to their implementation. This framework focuses on decision-making when there is limited or incomplete information. It involves assessing risks, considering probabilities, and employing techniques such as sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo simulations to make decisions in uncertain environments.