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The main stages of the analysis 337<br />

Weight<br />

Weight<br />

Weight<br />

100<br />

0<br />

100<br />

0<br />

100<br />

0<br />

27.27<br />

N<br />

70<br />

N<br />

10<br />

N<br />

Profit<br />

39.39<br />

W<br />

Market share<br />

50<br />

W<br />

Risk<br />

100<br />

E<br />

100<br />

E<br />

90.91<br />

Figure 13.3 – The within-criterion weights for the furniture company problem<br />

20<br />

made in the East region from maintaining the status quo (strategy 1) to<br />

expanding to 10 outlets (strategy 3). This meant that ‘Market share’ in<br />

the East region was assigned a weight of 100.<br />

The facilitator then asked the group to identify, from the strategies<br />

available in the other regions, the change which would lead to the<br />

second largest improvement in market share. The group said that they<br />

would switch from reducing the operation in the North (strategy 1)<br />

to maintaining the status quo in that region (strategy 2). After further<br />

discussion, they said that they felt that the improvement in market share<br />

resulting from this switch would only be 70% of that which would be<br />

W<br />

100<br />

E<br />

S<br />

60<br />

S<br />

30<br />

S

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