Good news for dematel users: the original potential of the method is still awaiting full exploitation

Abstract

DEMATEL technique is almost 50 years old. A long history of its application to solve diverse problems from different fields has provided diverse improvements to the technique to make it even more powerful. It nevertheless seems that some original merits of the technique were accidentally lost, as well. The merits proved to be very useful for a complex and comprehensive research made by DEMATEL in-ventors. So, it seems that they could also prove useful for contemporary researchers. This why an effort is made in the paper to recall and describe these merits and assess their usefulness for supporting a compre-hensive decision analysis today.