Eve swaps

Even swaps provides a practical way of making trade offs among a set of objectives across a range of alternatives.

It is a good way to create the picture of all our objectives and alternatives..Without a consequences table important information can be overlooked and trade offs can be made with any order, leading to wrongheaded decisions.

CONSEQUENCES TABLE
Objectives Monthly salaryJob A
2000

Job B
2400

Alternatives Job C
1800

Job D
1900

Job E
2200

Flexibility Business skills development Annual vacation days Benefits

Moderate

Low People management,computer 12

High Operations, computer 10

Moderate

None Time management, multitasking 12

Computer

Organization

14 Health, dental, retirement Great

15 Health, retirement Great

Health,dental

Health

Health, dental

Enjoyment

Good

Good

Boring

Fewer alternatives. Decisions become much simpler.

Through a consequences table.

Draw a second table up toconsequences with simple rankings.

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RANKING TABLE
Objectives Monthly salary Flexibility Business skills development Annual vacation days Benefits Job A Job B Alternatives Job C Job D Job E

32 (tie) 4 2 1 1 (tie)

1 4 1 3 (tie) 2 (tie) 3 (tie)

5 1 3 5 5 3 (tie)

4 2 (tie) 5 1 4 1 (tie)

2 5 2 3 (tie) 2 (tie) 5

Enjoyment

Discover what objectives can be ignored for all thealternatives. Increases the value of an alternative in terms of one objective. Decreases the value of that alternative in terms of another objective.

Dominance helps to eliminate alternatives.Even Swap Method allows to eliminate objectives.

1. Determine the change necessary to cancel out an objective. 2. Asses what change in another objective would compensate for the needed change. 3.Make the even swap. 4. Cancel out the now irrelevant objective. 5. Select the dominant alternative.

2.- Asses what change in another 4.- Cancel out the objective would compensate for the now...