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Method

DEMATEL

Don't just weight factors. Find out which ones drive the others, and which are merely effects.

The founders

Gabus & Fontela

1972 · Battelle Geneva Research Centre

Developed at Battelle's Geneva centre in the early 1970s to study tangled world problems, DEMATEL turns expert judgments into a map of who causes what, separating root drivers from downstream effects.

DEMATEL (1972)Cause & effectStructural map

The idea

Causes vs effects

Training
cause
Process
cause
Quality
effect
Cost
effect
← effect (D−R < 0)cause (D−R > 0) →

In five steps

1

Direct relations

Score how each factor affects others.

2

Normalize

Scale the direct-relation matrix.

3

Total relations

Capture indirect effects too.

4

Prominence & cause

Compute D+R and D−R.

5

Cause-effect map

Split drivers from outcomes.

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Gabus, A. & Fontela, E. (1972). World Problems, an Invitation to Further Thought within the Framework of DEMATEL. Battelle, Geneva.