here are a fair number of participatory methodologies that are used in a variety of decision making situations in Turkey ranging from Search Conferences to Commitment Conferences. The introduction of AHP in what we have started to call Decision Conferences was a good opportunity to bundle different participatory methodologies together to support a transformation process for different types of institutions and organizations.

The first application of AHP in Turkey was on nationwide industrial strategy formation where we had the pleasure of hosting the son of Tom SAATY. Followed by a long term collaboration with Prof.Ilker TOPCU and subsequently with Ozay OZAYDIN.

We have to date well over 100 decision conferences applied to different social systems. For instance, we aimed to create a road map for Galatasaray as a soccer club to reach a state of continuity with success at the European level, to understand the root causes why Istanbul could not produce sufficient number of organ transplantation donors and to redesign the incentives and processes to overcome the shortcomings, to explore unique cases like Topkapi Palace - the Ottoman Empire's major palace.

In this plenary, we are going to present the Topkapi Palace engagement in more detail. The project started when we were called by the Topkapi Palace Museum Administration to support the transformation of the museum to one of the prime destinations to be visited and enjoyed in the global arena. The result pointed to maintenance and preservation as a top criterion that was prioritized by 40 stakeholders, because to date there was no system of time slot reservation in use at the museum. Our plenary will showcase how the decision conference of the application and the technique was implemented.