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What is augmented decision-making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM People often make bad or "less" than optimal decisions. Do you think it would be great if a compute...	DSS Foundations	Oct 26, 2013
What are current trends in BI and Data Analytics? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power For the foreseeable future, Business Intelligence and data analytics technologies will continue as key enable...	DSS Foundations	Feb 18, 2017
What is the future of decision support and analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision support and business analytics can provide managers the numbers and metrics for both day-to-...	DSS Foundations	Nov 26, 2019
Why are quantitative models useful for decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers need to understand the value that a quantitative model creates for decision making. By identifyin...	DSS Foundations	Jan 28, 2013
Can wearable computing devices provide decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Computing devices continue to become smaller and more portable. A wearable computing device can now a...	DSS Foundations	Jun 11, 2017
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
How complex is managing? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Management roles are increasingly specialized, management tasks are often complex, and projects have expa...	DSS Foundations	Aug 28, 2019
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 is the technology adoption curve? Is it relevant to DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM The technology adoption curve (TAC) is a theory about how individuals and organizations behave in impl...	DSS Theory	Dec 31, 2019
Is decision support research still needed? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Digital transformation is occurring globally and data-driven decision support, machine learning, and Arti...	DSS Foundations	Nov 25, 2019
Is an insight-driven organization myth or reality? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com An insight-driven organization seems more like marketing hype, building on a catchy name, than reality. O...	DSS Foundations	Aug 18, 2019
What policies should govern Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are reaching the point where both organizations and governm...	DSS Foundations	Aug 05, 2020
What are the 10 most cited CDSS articles? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Google Scholar was searched using the search term "clinical decision support systems." Garg et. al (20...	DSS Foundations	Jul 18, 2019
How does the Facebook database operate? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In March 2013, Facebook, the social networking megaplatform, reported it had 1.11 billion active user...	DSS Foundations	Aug 24, 2013
How can ambient intelligence assist people in decision making? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Placing sensors and other computing devices in working and living spaces creates opportunities for real-time c...	DSS Foundations	Aug 06, 2018
What are challenges for predictive analytics? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Prediction is a difficult task and a challenge in many situations. The assumption of current prediction t...	DSS Foundations	Apr 07, 2019
How important is a robust decision support capability? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com A robust decision support capability is perhaps desirable. Robust means a decision support system (DSS) req...	DSS Foundations	Nov 10, 2013
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 is currently possible with Communications-Driven DSS? For more than a week in October 2001, I tried to use Communication and Information Technologies to coordinate my teaching activities and manage DSSRes...	Communications-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
Can decision support help political leaders make decisions? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM For many years, I have been systematically reading books by and about Herbert Clark Hoover and Henry ...	DSS Foundations	Jan 25, 2014
What is the best approach for organizing data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In an information technology context, organizing means to arrange data in a coherent form and to syst...	DSS Foundations	Jul 25, 2013
What is a man-computer symbiosis? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In 1960, J. C. R Licklider coined the phrase "man-computer symbiosis". He speculated that "man-compute...	DSS Foundations	Jul 18, 2018
Do entrepreneurs need decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com According to Joseph Schumpeter (1934, 42), capitalism sparks entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs innovate by...	DSS Theory	Dec 09, 2012
Is ETL software needed to build a model-driven DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM ETL refers to software used in the process of extracting data from a data source, transforming or alt...	Model-driven DSS	Apr 15, 2017
What is sabermetrics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Sabermetrics is a specific use of analytics in decision making. It is "the application of statistical...	DSS Foundations	Feb 06, 2014
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 agile leadership? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some may be skeptical about agile and others may think the term is overused. In reality, becoming more ag...	DSS Foundations	Jun 19, 2019
What is the role of people in machine learning? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Many tools exist for modeling data using machine learning (ML). The tools have been automated and the...	DSS Foundations	Jan 13, 2021
Should managers build decision support applications? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers get paid to manage, but in some situations managers can build computerized decision support capabi...	DSS Foundations	Feb 02, 2013
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
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
Will thinking machines make better decisions than people? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Fifty years of computing technology improvement has led to faster computation, faster transmission of data ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 30, 2012
Can surveillance data mislead decision-makers? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data from electronic surveillance devices may be falsified or inaccurate. The presumption can be that ...	DSS Foundations	Jun 16, 2020
What are "best practice" guidelines for decision process flowcharts? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com As part of decision oriented diagnosis and design (Power, 2007), DSS analysts need to develop decision pr...	Building DSS	Sep 07, 2007
How should digital ethics impact analytics and data mining? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Ethics should guide analytics, data mining, decision support, and decision making. Big data and new analytica...	DSS Foundations	Mar 23, 2019
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 has and will Moore's Law impact computerized decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Predictive “natural” laws provide some comfort in a complex, volatile and uncertain world. The "l...	DSS Theory	Jun 08, 2014
What is a data-driven decision making organization? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A data-driven decision making organization encourages and rewards use of facts and data by employees. Us...	DSS Foundations	Jan 17, 2016
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
Is Information Technology transforming the U.S. Heartland? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM The American heartland is 12 states in the heart of the United States and North America: Illinois, Indi...	DSS Foundations	Dec 12, 2015
What is the Amazon working backwards approach? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, has had great success since the Amazon e-tailing website launched on July 16, 199...	DSS Foundations	Aug 16, 2020
Are Executive Information Systems (EIS) needed? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com At least 30 years ago, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) began going online for information (cf., Rockhart, ...	Data-driven DSS	Sep 17, 2008
What is business intelligence? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Business intelligence (BI) is often viewed as a term similar to military or competitive intelligence. And h...	DSS Foundations	Aug 06, 2005
How can analytics and decision support reduce insurance fraud? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Preventing and detecting insurance fraud is a critical task at insurance companies. There is some evi...	DSS Foundations	Mar 02, 2014
What is PlanningDSS.COM? Recently, DSSResources.COM registered a new domain name, PlanningDSS.COM. The name summarizes the purpose of the web site -- it is a planning decisi...	Planning DSS	Sep 13, 2005
What are some use cases with expanded data sources? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data volume is expanding rapidly, data variety is increasing and is coming from new sources, and data...	DSS Foundations	Dec 21, 2014
How do data storage strategies differ among uses? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Everything that happens is being digitized. Customers are data, processes are data, supply chains are...	DSS Foundations	Aug 13, 2018
What are substitutes for computerized decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some computerized decision support is increasingly a necessity, but there remain many substitutes or alter...	DSS Theory	Aug 06, 2005
How might AI, Blockchain and Decision Support impact Accounting and Auditing? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Historically, bookkeepers, accountants, and auditors have maintained financial records and created de...	DSS Foundations	Oct 14, 2018
What are physical database design tradeoffs for decision support data? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Implementing a decision support database involves tradeoffs. A designer needs to transform an ideal, logi...	DSS Foundations	Oct 01, 2008

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