integrated multi - criteria decision frameworks disclosed herein can facilitate making good decisions when faced with a complex choice among several alternatives with different combinations of strengths and weaknesses . some decision support systems using multi - criteria methods can combine multiple multi - criteria methods in a single adaptable decision support intervention . in some embodiments , the framework can include some or all of the following modules : a decision strategy module ; a balance sheet module ; an interactive decision dashboard module ; an ordinal ranking module ; a direct weighting module ; and an analytic hierarchy process module .