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The Facilities Decision Making Process: A Focused, Systematic, and Abductive Reasoning Based Decision-Making Framework for Superior Outcomes in Facilities and Infrastructure Projects.

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Title/Author:	The Facilities Decision Making Process: A Focused, Systematic, and Abductive Reasoning Based Decision-Making Framework for Superior Outcomes in Facilities and Infrastructure Projects./
Author:	Backus, Erik Carl.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	219 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-12B.
Subject:	Engineering. -
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The Facilities Decision Making Process: A Focused, Systematic, and Abductive Reasoning Based Decision-Making Framework for Superior Outcomes in Facilities and Infrastructure Projects.
Backus, Erik Carl.

The Facilities Decision Making Process: A Focused, Systematic, and Abductive Reasoning Based Decision-Making Framework for Superior Outcomes in Facilities and Infrastructure Projects. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 219 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Clarkson University, 2023.

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Facilities and infrastructure are core foundational elements for civilization. Their development, engineering, and ongoing maintenance is critical to thriving communities and organizations. Sadly, too often, decisions about one of the most significant investments made by society, a business, or an organization about facilities and infrastructure is based on intuition, not deliberate studied approaches . Such decisions are indeed complicated and are not well defined problems, but are ill defined and hard to study. They often require abductive approaches and numerous iterations (often within a defined framework) to gain useful conclusions . This body of research seeks to address the following research questions:•Is there an analogous model to decision making that can be modified, adopted, or otherwise borrowed from, to articulate a repetitive and validated abductive iteration pattern/framework for facilities?•Are there systems or frameworks that operate in order to facilitate alignment of goals to outcomes based on qualitative and quantitative measures, that aid in decision making at community scale?•Given that data and information are needed as part of such a model , what are the facilities information systems available from which to source said data and information?•Given increased understanding that those that own facilities incur long term cost liabilities , what is the applicability of the use of total cost of ownership (TCO) for a case study within any proposed repetitive and validated abductive iteration pattern/framework for facilities?These questions all lead to an overarching question of does having a focused decision-making framework, one that is systematic, making use of multiple iterations of abductive reasoning, enable superior outcomes for facilities and infrastructure projects? To this question, we can say yes, absolutely. The Facility Decision Making Process (FDMP), a unique contribution provided through this effort, is just such a framework. The FDMP has had validated results to prove both its utility and its superiority over the predominant intuitive decision approaches for facilities and/or infrastructure capital investments. If adopted widely, this framework promises to deliver superior results than is evidenced in facility management today. By results we mean facilities and infrastructure efforts that, while not optimized, balance the numerous project success criteria (often defined as objectives or goals) in such a way as to arrive at a decision about which of the various design and implementation options available is "best" (in so much as it is least worst), which then can be objectively verified against upon initial project completion (or later in a given infrastructure or facilities life cycle) so as to compare against the other counterfactual options considered (using various methods, including simulation, etc.). Given the nature of the uniqueness of every facility or infrastructure project, verification of any such framework is problematic, if not impossible. Instead, however, in such studies we rely on successive cases of validated successes or failures as a method to ascertain the value and contribution a given decision making framework .This work provides the initial steps in that vein. The proceeding dissertation provides a literature review and background of facilities managements and engineering, the status of facility decision making, the nature of facilities problems as being predominantly ill-defined, and discussing the analogous military decision making process. This is followed by a discussion of the implementation of a sustainable holistic planning system (SHPS) in a particular case study of the New York Olympic Region; helping to demonstrate the challenge and the opportunity of using a community scale sustainability planning framework. The next chapter provides a synopsized explanation of the FDMP and provides a case study that validates its use in a facility decision making application. The fourth chapter of this document then discusses the broad range of facilities information systems from which the data and information required to use the FDMP can be ascertained. Prior to concluding, the last chapter provides a further case study of the use of one emergent criterion for use in the FDMP: total cost of ownership (TCO). In doing so, this allows for a deeper understanding of the way any one particular evaluation criteria within FDMP can be determined for use in the larger facilities or infrastructure context.While this work is robust and provides the initial work needed to describe and validate the use of the FMDP, there is still much more to be done to actualize the widespread use of this focused, systematic, decision-making framework, making use of multiple iterations of abductive reasoning, to enable superior outcomes for facilities and infrastructure projects. That work includes (but is not limited to):•The development of a practitioners guide/manual for the use of the FDMP so as to enable and empower use by others.•The capture and dissemination of additional case studies, application in practice, and adoption of the use of the FDMP with the hopeful development of a database of such uses for further study.•The development of better understandings of what might be more repeatedly used screening and evaluation criteria in the FDMP (along with the repeatable methodology and standardization of those metrics) as compared to what may be unique or contextually driven criteria. This should include additional growth in the use of TCO in case studies and practice so as to regularize its use as a evaluation criteria in facilities decisions.•The continued development of the concept and application of SHPS•The growth of efforts to apply facilities informatics to better inform facility choices by creating better access to data and information from enterprise and other systems already in use in facility management organizations.With these and other ongoing research, the practice of facilities engineering and management will advance so as to deliver superior facilities and infrastructure results for the organizations, communities, and societies they support well into the future.

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The Facilities Decision Making Process: A Focused, Systematic, and Abductive Reasoning Based Decision-Making Framework for Superior Outcomes in Facilities and Infrastructure Projects.
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This body of research seeks to address the following research questions:•Is there an analogous model to decision making that can be modified, adopted, or otherwise borrowed from, to articulate a repetitive and validated abductive iteration pattern/framework for facilities?•Are there systems or frameworks that operate in order to facilitate alignment of goals to outcomes based on qualitative and quantitative measures, that aid in decision making at community scale?•Given that data and information are needed as part of such a model , what are the facilities information systems available from which to source said data and information?•Given increased understanding that those that own facilities incur long term cost liabilities , what is the applicability of the use of total cost of ownership (TCO) for a case study within any proposed repetitive and validated abductive iteration pattern/framework for facilities?These questions all lead to an overarching question of does having a focused decision-making framework, one that is systematic, making use of multiple iterations of abductive reasoning, enable superior outcomes for facilities and infrastructure projects? To this question, we can say yes, absolutely. The Facility Decision Making Process (FDMP), a unique contribution provided through this effort, is just such a framework. The FDMP has had validated results to prove both its utility and its superiority over the predominant intuitive decision approaches for facilities and/or infrastructure capital investments. If adopted widely, this framework promises to deliver superior results than is evidenced in facility management today. By results we mean facilities and infrastructure efforts that, while not optimized, balance the numerous project success criteria (often defined as objectives or goals) in such a way as to arrive at a decision about which of the various design and implementation options available is "best" (in so much as it is least worst), which then can be objectively verified against upon initial project completion (or later in a given infrastructure or facilities life cycle) so as to compare against the other counterfactual options considered (using various methods, including simulation, etc.). Given the nature of the uniqueness of every facility or infrastructure project, verification of any such framework is problematic, if not impossible. Instead, however, in such studies we rely on successive cases of validated successes or failures as a method to ascertain the value and contribution a given decision making framework .This work provides the initial steps in that vein. The proceeding dissertation provides a literature review and background of facilities managements and engineering, the status of facility decision making, the nature of facilities problems as being predominantly ill-defined, and discussing the analogous military decision making process. This is followed by a discussion of the implementation of a sustainable holistic planning system (SHPS) in a particular case study of the New York Olympic Region; helping to demonstrate the challenge and the opportunity of using a community scale sustainability planning framework. The next chapter provides a synopsized explanation of the FDMP and provides a case study that validates its use in a facility decision making application. The fourth chapter of this document then discusses the broad range of facilities information systems from which the data and information required to use the FDMP can be ascertained. Prior to concluding, the last chapter provides a further case study of the use of one emergent criterion for use in the FDMP: total cost of ownership (TCO). In doing so, this allows for a deeper understanding of the way any one particular evaluation criteria within FDMP can be determined for use in the larger facilities or infrastructure context.While this work is robust and provides the initial work needed to describe and validate the use of the FMDP, there is still much more to be done to actualize the widespread use of this focused, systematic, decision-making framework, making use of multiple iterations of abductive reasoning, to enable superior outcomes for facilities and infrastructure projects. 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This should include additional growth in the use of TCO in case studies and practice so as to regularize its use as a evaluation criteria in facilities decisions.•The continued development of the concept and application of SHPS•The growth of efforts to apply facilities informatics to better inform facility choices by creating better access to data and information from enterprise and other systems already in use in facility management organizations.With these and other ongoing research, the practice of facilities engineering and management will advance so as to deliver superior facilities and infrastructure results for the organizations, communities, and societies they support well into the future.
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