LEARNING EVIDENCE 4 – I made a decision

Decision-making analysis form

Dilemma: Three classmates from the business administration degree course decide to do their degree thesis together.
They must decide on the subject they will address. Alonso proposes that they work on blockchain because he works with
that service. Javier proposes that they work on artificial intelligence because that is trendy. And Dora proposes that they
work on data science, as it is very much related to the course.

Importance level
unimportant trivial important very important urgent

Uncertainty level completely completely

very uncertain uncertain sure
uncertain sure
The best that could happen:
the best thing that can happen would be that the chosen topic gives them a good process and a good academic grade.

The worst that could happen:

the worst that could happen would be that the chosen topic does not provide them with the facility to carry out the thesis,
and that this affects their academic grade.

What my intuition says: Pros and cons

My intuition says that the best option is to compare the +They have three options to choose from.
topics and see which is the most appropriate to achieve a
successful thesis.
-everyone has their favorite option.

+all three options are very good

-they might not agree

+they have experience in two of the three subjects.

-If they use Javier's theme, they risk not having the same
results that they would have with the themes in which they
do have experience.
+There are three people and that facilitates the thesis
process.
-have differences of ideas.

Conclusion based on my intuition: Rational conclusion:

I think they should choose the topic on blockchain The most rational thing would be to choose the subject on
because Javier has a lot of knowledge of the subject and it data science because all three people have knowledge of
would facilitate and also shorten the time to do the thesis. the subject and would have a much higher probability of
success.

Decision: the most suitable topic for Alonso, Javier and Dora's thesis is data science because this topic is the
best for a business administration thesis.
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