Expert choice

Experts possess detailed current knowledge and ability to process complex information. Their expertise may derive from proficiency in specialized skills, depth or range of knowledge, or decisive wisdom in judgment. Critics maintain that expertise from a single professional field poorly equips the specialist for problems in a broad, interconnected and complex world. Narrower specialized knowledge should be supplemented by higher order knowledge of the context, for example privileged position of community trust as sources of knowledge, and this implies professional ethical responsibility in the gathering, distribution and use of this knowledge for decision-making. Expert Choice organizes the various components in a structure similar to a relevance tree. The structure consists of a goal, criteria, and identification of alternative levels. In Expert choice, users make pairwise comparison and the software program allows for weighing the decision factors. This software allows the user to address nonfinancial factors that impact a business strategy.