Friday, July 22, 2011

Minimalist Criteria

At the simplest level, the customer may use what the experts call "MINIMALIST" criteria, but which we might call arbitrary. The programmers who work at my company provided a rather amusing instance of this kind of decision making when it comes to choosing a lunch destination. They used to waste a sizable portion of their lunch period arguing and debating about where to go. Finally, they resolved it as only programmers would-they wrote a piece of software that makes the decision for them. At first, it was a random lunch generator, but then they got a bit more sophisticated. Now they enter a single factor, such as proximity or price, and click the mouse. The system generates a lunch destination based on that factor. And off they go, content with the choice.

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