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Evaluation of Strategic Initiatives with MCDA for Issuing Natural Disaster Alerts

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Operations Management for Social Good (POMS 2018)

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The chapter presents a multi-criteria decision model in order to support the evaluation and the definition of strategic initiatives by a Brazilian organization responsible for issuing natural disaster alerts. The model focused on values will allow the organization to establish priority programs and projects in line with its strategic objective.

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This paper has been partially funded by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—CAPES.

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  1. Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica—ITA, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Glayse Ferreira Perroni da Silva & Mischel Carmen Neyra Belderrain

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  1. Glayse Ferreira Perroni da Silva
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Correspondence to Glayse Ferreira Perroni da Silva .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Adriana Leiras

  2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin (UNAL-Medellin), Medellín, Colombia

    Carlos Alberto González-Calderón

  3. Universidade Estadual Paulista at São José dos Campos (ICT-UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Irineu de Brito Junior

  4. Universidad de Los Andes (UniAndes), Bogotá, Colombia

    Sebastián Villa

  5. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

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da Silva, G.F.P., Belderrain, M.C.N. (2020). Evaluation of Strategic Initiatives with MCDA for Issuing Natural Disaster Alerts. In: Leiras, A., González-Calderón, C., de Brito Junior, I., Villa, S., Yoshizaki, H. (eds) Operations Management for Social Good. POMS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_87

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