Final Selection Criteria and Applying the Criteria

Exercise 3:Now that you have arrived at a short list of possibilities to meet your needs, it’s time to define the make-or-break criteria which will decide between your options.In a statement of 50-100 wordsDescribe 3 more criteria—3 features, functions, qualities, capabilities, etc—in addition to those which you developed in Exercise 2 (file) which any of the options you are considering must have. For each criterion, explain why it is necessary, and why not having it would be a liability.For illustrations of how to do this, see these sample recommendation reports (curated by David McMurrey):♦ The section “Points of Comparison“ inLaptop Computers♦ The first ¶ under “Comparison of the Uninterruptible Power Supplies” inUninterruptible Power Supply Systems♦ The first ¶ under “Comparisons” inBlood Glucose Monitoring SystemsNow it’s time to practice evaluating one of your possible solutions by all of your criteria, both the screening and selection criteria.Exercise 4:In a document of about 100-150 words, apply all of your criteria to one of the two options you identified in Exercise 3. Use the point-by-point approach discussed in§ 7.5 of Last, et al., and also shown inTable 1 in this resource by Reardon, et al.For additional illustrations of how to do this, see these sample recommendation reports (curated by David McMurrey):♦ The section “Points of Comparison“ inLaptop Computers♦ The first ¶ under “Comparison of the Uninterruptible Power Supplies” inUninterruptible Power Supply Systems♦ The first ¶ under “Comparisons” inBlood Glucose Monitoring Systems