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The purpose of this paper is to introduce a decision support system to prioritize needs that are anchored in an organization. We build on a systems-thinking approach and develop a weighted additive index which considers different viewpoints of organizational stakeholders. First, we briefly review the literature about identifying and prioritizing ne...
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... identify needs for prioritization, we use Bewextra, a method which premises rely on systems thinking. Bewextra has been presented for the first time at the HICSS-47 conference and consists of three consecutive steps [7], [10] (see figure 1). The first step, 'Bewextra-Collect' uses a "learning from the future" approach to acquire satisfiers (reported ideas, dreams and wishes of participants) [59], [60]. ...
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