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How can behavioral models be used for decision support? In the Ask Dan! of July 6, 2003 I discussed the question "How can simulation be used for decision support?" That column provided an overview...	Model-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
How can simulation be used for decision support? Questions about using simulation for building a DSS are reasonably frequent in my Ask Dan! email. So this column has been in the works for some time, ...	Model-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
Can multi-user visual simulations provide real world decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com The computing technology for creating realistic visual simulations has improved tremendously in the past 20...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 19, 2007
What happened at DSSResources 2007-2010? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com The DSS Research Resources home page started during late summer 1995 as a way of organizing the vast amount...	DSS Foundations	Jan 03, 2011
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Second Life for decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Multi-user visual simulations are at the leading and bleeding edge for computerized decision support. The maj...	Model-driven DSS	Aug 19, 2007
How does decision support processing differ from transaction processing? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Information systems can be categorized in many ways, but historically business information systems began a...	Building DSS	Jan 04, 2014
Can computerized decision support reduce information asymmetry? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In multiparty decision situations, one party often has better information than another. These situations c...	DSS Foundations	Apr 29, 2012
What should managers know about predictive analytics and model-driven decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Companies are implementing predictive analytics and quantitative models to assist managers. There remain ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 19, 2012
What can DSS designers learn from video games? Today, decision support systems use mature user interface technologies. Dashboards are not "new"; the smiley faces and sliders for user input are fa...	Building DSS	Feb 05, 2006
What are the best Second Life resources for communications-driven decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Second Life (secondlife.com) from Linden Labs is a powerful multi-user visual simulation. Since May 20, 200...	Communications-driven DSS	Aug 19, 2007
What are the achievements, trends and challenges for Decision Support Systems? In late October 2001, Manuel Mora, an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems, Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (www.uaa.mx...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 07, 2005
What is sustainability-based decision making? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Considering criteria related to sustainability when making routine or complex decisions can be termed sust...	DSS Foundations	May 28, 2014
What is a client/server architecture for DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Most decision support systems (DSS) are built within the context of a corporate-wide client/server architec...	DSS Foundations	Jun 03, 2010
What is the "answer" to my DSS question? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Currently, I have a backlog of more than 75 questions that have been emailed to Ask Dan! since Septe...	DSS Foundations	Oct 22, 2006
What is the evolution of decision support and analytics architectures? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM During the past 70 years as new computing technologies have been developed, the computing architectur...	DSS Foundations	Dec 05, 2018
What is the impact of information management on the organization? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Thirty years ago, at the start of my career, I addressed this question (cf., Power, 1983). My MIS Qua...	DSS Foundations	Nov 24, 2013
Is Amazon Web Services a 'good fit' for decision support and OLTP? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts many popular Web applications including: Instagram, Vine, IFTTT, Netf...	DSS Foundations	Aug 25, 2013
What is an enterprise-class translytical database? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Translytical is a portmanteau word, in that parts of the words transaction and analytical are combined to form...	DSS Foundations	Oct 02, 2017
What is Alter's DSS taxonomy? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com In the mid-1970s, the first wave of computerized decision support systems (DSS) became practical. St...	DSS Foundations	Jun 18, 2018
What is social media? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com How we communicate, obtain and process information for personal and work decisions is changing. The transfo...	DSS Foundations	May 10, 2011
What is conversational, general-purpose decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM The phrase conversational, general-purpose decision support refers to a knowledge-driven software app...	DSS Foundations	Feb 24, 2019
How can analytics and decision support improve cybersecurity? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Protecting digital data and information is crucial to organizational survival. Failing to anticipate ...	DSS Foundations	Jun 26, 2018
What theories are especially relevant to decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision support is an applied field of study like accounting, engineering, and medicine. Design scie...	DSS Foundations	Dec 16, 2018
Can computerized decision support improve national security decision making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM PERHAPS. The current review of options for exiting from Iraq demonstrates the complexity of national...	DSS Theory	May 01, 2007
Why is anticipatory technology decision-making important? by Daniel J. Power Technology change is accelerating and advancing. Technology optimism, a belief that improved technology will always solve more p...	DSS Foundations	Jun 16, 2020
What are the "hot" DSS research topics? Academic research in the U.S. often seems as susceptible to trends and "hot" topics as other segments of our culture. For the past 10 years ...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 07, 2005
What role does a data steward have in providing decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM All varieties of data-driven decision support, whether an integrated application, a business intellig...	DSS Foundations	Apr 27, 2013
Can chatbot technology improve decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Chatting using text or computer-generated voice and natural language understanding with an intelligen...	DSS Foundations	Jun 30, 2019
What are the answers to the DSS case study questions at DSSResources.COM? Recently Zam Zawari wrote "I need your guidelines on how to answer the questions in the case 'MeritCare Health System uses Simulation'". At ...	DSS Applications	Aug 16, 2005
What is analytical processing? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Transforming data and summarizing it is a key task in many decision making situations. Once this task is co...	DSS Foundations	Feb 12, 2010
What is the theory of relational databases? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Relational databases organize data elements in clusters that are meaningful to users and useful for perform...	DSS Foundations	Apr 11, 2010
What skills do team leaders need for conducting effective virtual decision-making meetings? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In general, team leaders need planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling skills (cf., Huber,...	Communications-driven DSS	Aug 02, 2006
What should an Agile practitioner know and do? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Knowing agile principles and developing an agile mindset are the starting point of becoming agile. An agi...	DSS Foundations	Jul 01, 2019
Are computerized decision aids decision support systems? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Some are, some aren't. The phrase computerized decision aid refers to a diverse set of computer-based...	DSS Theory	May 14, 2016
What is the job of a datawarehouse administrator? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM The Data Warehouse Administrator supports the ongoing development and maintenance of data warehousing ...	DSS Foundations	Oct 25, 2018
What are examples of technology innovation failures? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Technology success has led to innovations in organization decision making, operations, and products. ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 08, 2017
What is advanced or next generation Decision Support? The "bleeding edge" of technology development and DSS is often a costly swamp. Yet it can be very profitable to gain a "first mover&quo...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 07, 2005
What type of DSS is a Revenue Management application? On March 05, 2004, Tommy Wiratama posted the following at DSSResources.COM:Dear Dr. Power,I'm looking into existing revenue management technologies, e...	DSS Applications	Aug 25, 2005
What is a data scientist? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A practitioner of the emerging discipline of data science is called a data scientist. Data science is...	DSS Foundations	Sep 26, 2014
What is digital transformation of an organization? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Digital transformation changes processes, systems and operations by implementing improved computing technologi...	DSS Foundations	May 13, 2018
How smart is IBM Watson? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM IBM is heavily promoting a cognitive system named Watson in television ads. A major selling point is t...	Knowledge-driven DSS	Dec 16, 2015
What is a decision system? Daniel J. Power, Ciara Heavin, and Peter Keenan A decision system is a collection of information-processing components that interact to make deci...	DSS Foundations	Sep 02, 2018
Why study computerized decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Using information technologies to improve decision making is interesting and important. Sadly, we seem to ...	DSS Foundations	Feb 05, 2012
How important is flexibility for a DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In the early years of computerized decision support, Keen (1980) and Sprague and Carlson (1982) argued th...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2008
How does the use of a Communications-Driven DSS impact a decision-making meeting? by Dan Power Communications and computing technologies have made it possible to have distributed decision-making meetings. Initially such meeting...	Communications-driven DSS	Aug 02, 2006
Can smartphone apps increase collaboration? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Smartphones have enabled a mobile world and these devices have initiated a series of significant chang...	DSS Foundations	Oct 18, 2015
What are best practices for BI reports? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Structured, periodic reports remain at the center of data-driven decision support for managerial decision...	Building DSS	Nov 15, 2007
Can DSS improve state government tax revenue projections? In the United States, state governments forecast tax revenues, prepare spending budgets based on the forecast, and then track and monitor tax receipts...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005
What should managers know about business intelligence and data-driven decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Most managers want to make fact-based decisions. Many large organizations have implemented database syste...	DSS Foundations	Aug 13, 2012
Where can I find or download a DSS demo? Requests for information about DSS demonstration software is a frequent email question. The answer changes however depending upon what vendors are cur...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005

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