An interactive project prioritization model implementation

Arcelik A.S. is a leading home appliance manufacturer in Turkey. The changing position of Turkey and the market led the organization to establish an R&D department in 1991. For effective utilization of R&D resources, a project prioritization and selection methodology has been developed. A weighted scoring model is selected as a base for the methodology. The method is extended to provide the involvement of upper management by defining new criteria and an interactive decision process. During the development of this model, department managers contributed to the identification of criteria. Implementation of the methodology as well as difficulties, solutions to them and organizational constraints are also summarized.