Goal Setting, Planning and Decision Making

3. Measured Criteria. With this technique, you list the criteria you want your
decision to meet and assign points to each criterion based on its relative
importance in the decision. Then, each alternative is given a certain number
of points according to how fully it meets the criterion. For points you can use
a scale of 1 to 10, 1 to 100, or any other range that makes sense to you.
In the example below, traveling by train is rated 25 out of 30 for the “comfort”
criterion. The plane is ranked a little less comfortable, at 21 out of 30. Once
all of the alternatives have been assigned their due, all the points for each
alternative are added up and the alternative with the highest total points is the
one chosen. In the example below, that would be the plane.
Example:
Possible Train Plane Car
Points
Comfort 30 25 21 18
Speed 15 7 15 3
Safety 20 13 17 9
Food 10 6 2 10
Total 75 51 55 40
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