8 steps of multi-criteria decision analysis

1. Define the decision problem

Identify the objectives, type of decision, alternatives, stakeholders, and output required.

5. weighting the criteria

eliciting stakeholder preferences between the criteria

4. Scoring the alterantives

eliciting stakeholder preferences for changes within the criteria

3. Measure the performance

gathering data about the alternatives performance on the criteria and summarizing this in a performance matrix

7. Dealing with uncertainty

perform uncertainty analysis to understand the level of robustness of MCDA results

6. calculating aggregate score

use alternative scores on the criteria and the weights for the criteria to get the total value by which the alternatives are ranked

2. Select and structure the criteria

identifying the criteria relevant for evaluating the alternatives

Report and examine findings

interpreting the MCDA outputs, including your uncertainty/sensitivity analysis to support the decision making