This paper outlines an approach to strategic planning, based on decision‐making support methods. It provides a description of a step‐by‐step procedure, allowing the decision maker to build a strategy, targeted at solution of some weakly structured problem or at achievement of some complex goal, influenced by multiple tangible and intangible criteria. Criteria are formulated by experts and arranged into a hierarchy, as prescribed by the analytic hierarchy process. Relative weights of criteria are calculated on the basis of expert estimates, using the combinatorial approach, which is, in a way, an extension of analytic hierarchy process toolkit. In the context of this paper, a strategy is defined as the optimal way of currently available resource distribution among specific factors or projects, which influence the main goal of a strategic plan. Each project is characterized by certain funding volume constraints (minimum and maximum resource amounts) as well as time frames (launching and completion or termination dates). As an example of implementation of our approach, we consider a case of resource distribution among environmental projects.
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