Decision Support Tools for Selecting Organisational Improvement Initiatives: a Review

  • Authors

    • Musli Mohammad
    • Ligesh Manni Vattiyan
    • Mohd Shahir Yahya
    2018-07-04
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.7.16260
  • Decision support tools are used in many organisations to support organisational decision making activities. However, very limited studies have been found focussing on the decision support tools for selecting organisational improvement initiatives. Improve

  • Abstract

    Decision support tools are used in many organisations to support organisational decision making activities. However, very limited studies have been found focussing on the decision support tools for selecting organisational improvement initiatives. Improvement initiatives are approaches, management systems, tools and/or techniques that can be used for managing and improving organisations, such as Lean, ISO9001 and Improvement Team. Four existing decision support tools were reviewed and compared. All four decision support tools consist of decision matrix, rating and ranking to assist in selecting appropriate improvement initiative. Finally, several potential future studies have been proposed.

     

     

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    Mohammad, M., Manni Vattiyan, L., & Shahir Yahya, M. (2018). Decision Support Tools for Selecting Organisational Improvement Initiatives: a Review. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(3.7), 153-155. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.7.16260

    Received date: 2018-07-25

    Accepted date: 2018-07-25

    Published date: 2018-07-04