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What is Choosing By Advantages?
“Choosing By Advantages (CBA) is not an individual tool or technique. CBA is a decision-making system. It is also a decision making process, not just a step in the process.
Challenges with Learning and Applying CBA
There is significant variation in what people understand and portray versus what “CBA” actually is. More importantly, utilizing any CBA method incorrectly can lead to an unsound decision, which is exactly what we are trying to avoid with CBA to begin with.
The Five Phases of Choosing By Advantages
Most Choosing By Advantages blog posts, presentations and classes I’ve experienced largely cover the part of CBA of making the decision itself. If I were to speculate, that’s probably because that is the part of CBA that is most unfamiliar to people.
Applying Choosing by Advantages Across the Design Process Spectrum
Decision-making in the design process is multi-dimensional, involving various stakeholders with diverse perspectives and interests. This results in the need to undertake multicriteria decision-analysis (MCDA).
Applying Lean Thinking to Improve Safety Performance in Construction
The construction industry remains one of the most hazardous industries in the United States in terms of the number of occupational fatal and non-fatal injuries. In 2014, 874 fatal work-related injuries were reported in the U.S. construction industry1.
Step By Step Guide to Applying Choosing By Advantages
Choosing by Advantages (CBA) is a collaborative and transparent decision making system developed by Jim Suhr, which comprises of multiple methods. CBA includes methods for virtually all types of decisions, from very simple to very complex (Suhr 1999).
Why CBA is superior to other decision-making methods?
When it comes to the choosing problem, defined as selecting one and only one alternative (or a combination), the best of all, Choosing By Advantages (CBA) is a method that stands out from others.
Why Decision-making Methods Matter
“Among the most important of all the decisions the world's people will ever make are their decisions about how to make decisions, because their decisions about how to make decisions will strongly influence all the other decisions they will ever make.
Different Types Of Decision-Making Methods
Organizations make multiple types of decisions on a daily basis, such as: hiring people, selecting technologies, designing operations, etc. It is logical to think that different types of decisions will require different types of decision-making methods.
Capital Project Owner Decisionmaking is a Shared Responsibility
A common complaint on capital projects is that owners cannot quickly make decisions, and this delays progress on work. This is particularly true on projects where the ownership group includes multiple stakeholders that must align on key parts of the project design.