Creative Decisions Foundation Events
Event Information
Unlock the Power of Innovability through Problem-Solving
The 2nd International T.L. Saaty Decision Making Hackathon 2024 is a dynamic and immersive part of the 22nd International Conference on ECONOMICS – FINANCE - MANAGEMENT (ICEFM2024) “Balancing Contemporary Challenges with Innovability”. This challenge-driven event empowers participants to explore the concept of Innovability by addressing real-world business dilemmas and societal issues.
What is the process?
Teams of 3-4 students are invited to participate in the Hackathon. All the teams will start by learning how to model decision problems and how to collect and combine data and judgmnents. Solutions will be presented in the span of this 3-day online hackathon event.
Teams will be presented with business cases by our business partners. The teams will need to come up with a creative and well-thought-out analytic decision process to be used for solving one of the case problems. The models will be constructed using the Analytic Hierarchy Process method and the software tools learned during the training.
The teams will present their solutions online to a panel of experts and the winning teams will be invited to elaborate their solutions and present their work online to the ICEFM2024 conference attendees.
Areas of innovability
We have identified certain key areas from the ICEFM2024 conference to help you hone in on some of the key aspects your proposed solution could involve. These topics are closely tied to the Innovability theme of ICEFM2024 and make a good starting point for attacking the problems presented by our business partners.
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1. Sustainable Supply Chain Optimization
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2. Renewable Energy Integration
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3. Circular Economy Solutions
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4. Social Innovation for Inclusive Businesses
Evaluation Criteria
Your solution will be evaluated based on their relevance to the conference theme, the innovativeness of the proposed solution, and their potential real-world impact on business and societal issues. The teams will present their models and the solutions online and be scored by the judging panel.
ICEFM2024 Organizers
The Creative Decisions Foundation (CDF) was established in 1996 by Thomas L. Saaty, creator of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory of decision making, and his wife Rozann Whitaker Saaty. CDF's mission is to promote rational decision making using the Analytic Process based methods.
The Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych PAN, abbreviation: INE PAN) is a public Polish research center for economic and business studies. It was founded December 10, 1980. Its offices are located in the Staszic Palace and the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. Organizationally, it is part of the Polish Academy of Sciences.The Institute of Economics has the rights to bestow doctoral degrees, habilitation degrees and to initiate the professorship procedure. Some of its MBA and DBA prominent programs are the most modern programs in Poland which are internationally recognized.
Centrum PUCP: The Business School with Positive Impact is a dynamic and innovative institution dedicated to fostering a new generation of business leaders committed to making a positive difference in society. Emphasizing values of sustainability, social responsibility, and ethical leadership, this school integrates business education with a mission to create meaningful impact.
The Cognitione Foundation for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Science was created by its founder, Dr. Hab. Anna Ujwary-Gil in 2015. The Foundation is a legal entity certified by the National Court Register number: 587704, issued on 25 November 2015 by the District Court for Kraków-Śródmieście in Kraków, 11th Commercial Division of the National Court Register.