The following questions address difficulties
that arise when treating intangible organizational entities:
??? How are concepts discovered and classified?
??? Are concepts quantifiable?
??? How are concepts distinct from each other?
??? How can the attribute collection that was discovered in the attribution process help us
now identify new conceptual services?
??? What is the method used to categorize these abstract entities?
The general notion is that abstractions are indefinable entities that cannot be scientifically
measured, compared, assessed, or classified. Concept discovery is another challenging topic that
is widely misunderstood. Conceptualization tasks that require categorization of abstract entities
are even harder to comprehend. Therefore, a formalized and methodological approach is recommended
to discover these intangible entities and establish them as organizational abstractions,
namely conceptual services.
DECISION TREES. Indeed, discovering abstractions, classifying ideas, and deriving concepts are
not easy tasks to perform. However, as subjective as they are and as much as they depend on
personal judgments and indefinite science, such missions can be achieved by employing decision
theory3 practices. These are logical comparisons4 and decision analysis (DA) disciplines that
enable practitioners of all branches of science, from engineering to social studies, to derive
optimal and ideal decisions that are affiliated with abstractions, uncertainties, or treatments of
incommensurable entities (commodities that cannot be measured in the same units).
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