%0 Journal Article
%T Entscheidungsunterstützung unter Berücksichtigung der Anforderungen von Entscheidungsträgern am Beispiel der Gestaltung von optionalen Girokonto-Tarifen
%A Albers, Sönke
%A Gensler, Sonja
%A van de Bergh, Jörg
%D 2010
%J Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft
%@ 0044-2372
%N 6
%V 80
%P 617–638
%! Albers, Gensler et al. 2010 – Entscheidungsunterstützung unter Berücksichtigung der Anforderungen
%R 10.1007/s11573-010-0367-1
%X Quantitative decision models are used only if managers’ implementation conditions are met. Decision makers want tools that offer a set of good solutions so that they can evaluate different solutions according to various objectives without being forced to make their trade-offs explicit in a functional form. This also allows taking into account strategic aspects that cannot be modeled otherwise. In such situations, heuristics are needed which derive solutions from the structure and not so much from the mathematical properties. We present such a decision support tool for the problem of determining a menu of optional tariffs for checking accounts. The heuristic is based on the idea that for reasonably separable preferences across segments it is the best to offer for each segment the most preferred product. We use latent class choice-based conjoint analysis to estimate customer preferences and develop a customized choice-based conjoint design to take differences in individual demand into account. The proposed heuristic was used to support an actual decision problem for which the profit contribution has been increased substantially without having faced a considerable loss of customers.