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Rethinking Project Selection at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

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  • James C. Felli

    (Defense Resources Management Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93943)

  • Randall E. Kochevar

    (Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California 93940)

  • Bruce R. Gritton

    (Monterey Bay Aquarium)

Abstract

In 1995, the Monterey Bay Aquarium started an experimental business unit called Electronic Outreach. Electronic Outreach's mission was to employ emerging technologies to deliver the aquarium's messages of ocean stewardship to diverse and scattered audiences. Faced with many projects from which to choose, the Electronic Outreach team wanted to determine which projects were most likely to succeed before they actually had to dedicate resources to development. We constructed two models to help them accomplish this: a multiattribute-value model to quantify a project's alignment with the aquarium's mission and a discounted-cash-flow model to quantify a project's viability as a business venture. We then combined the outputs of these two models into a two-dimensional framework to allow the Electronic Outreach team members to focus on monetary-nonmonetary trade-offs when evaluating potential projects.

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  • James C. Felli & Randall E. Kochevar & Bruce R. Gritton, 2000. "Rethinking Project Selection at the Monterey Bay Aquarium," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 30(6), pages 49-63, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:30:y:2000:i:6:p:49-63
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.30.6.49.11628
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    1. Ozer, Muammer, 2005. "Factors which influence decision making in new product evaluation," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 163(3), pages 784-801, June.

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