IDI specializes in applied decision
analysis, operations research, systems
engineering, performance measurement, and
group decision conferencing. Our business is
a mix of government and commercial clients,
including numerous organizations in the
national security and law enforcement
communities.
IDI can provide your organization with a
competitive decision advantage that no one
else can match. We currently have the
largest decision analysis capability in the
country, consisting of 17 senior decision
analysts with advanced degrees. IDI
decision analysts average more than 20 years
of applied decision analysis experience
each.
IDI has some of the most experienced
decision support facilitators in the
country, including pioneers the Decision
Conferencing concept. IDI staff
members have
facilitated more than two thousand decision
conferences and are experienced in many
decision support tools and groupware. IDI
has established, staffed, and provided
technology transfer for decision support
centers for numerous agencies.
IDI staff members have been recognized for
their work by the professional decision
analysis societies:
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3 Rist Prizes from the Military
Operations Research Society (MORS)
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6 Best Decision Analysis Working Group
Paper Awards from MORS
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Runner-up for the Franz Edelman Prize
from the Institute for Operations
Research and Management Science
(INFORMS)
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Runner-up for the Annual Best Decision
Analysis Application Prize (from
INFORMS)
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Technical fellowships from NSA and the
International Council on Systems
Engineering (INCOSE)
And we preach what we practice. IDI
staff members have published several books on
decision analysis and systems engineering
and scores of decision analysis articles in
refereed journals.