Do Differing Analyses Change the Decision?: Using a Game to Assess Whether Analytic Approaches Improve Decisionmaking
Abstract
Although the decision analysis community creates promising novel methods, tools, and paradigms, it frequently faces obstacles when trying to move those innovations from the academy to the boardroom or the White House Situation Room. Without clear evidence of a new methods strengths compared with traditional approaches, it is difficult to justify the costs associated with change. These costs can include investing time and resources into new processes, organizations, technologies, personnel, and even mindsets about what constitutes best practice. Such investments are hard to justify if one cannot show the value proposition of an innovative approachthat is, that it actually improves decisionmaking processes and resulting decisions. However, without an application to evaluate, such evidence may be in short supply.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1086469
Entities
People
- Elizabeth M. Bartels
- Igor Mikolic-torreira
- Joel B. Predd
- Steven W. Popper
Organizations
- RAND Corporation