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What is the danger of cognitive computing? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com A number of science fiction stories have dealt with rogue computer intelligences. My favorite is Sta...	DSS Foundations	Oct 02, 2016
What is the impact of decision support on cognitive biases, decision style and risk attitudes? by Daniel J. Power, Editor of DSSResources.com Cognitive bias, decision styles and risk attitudes impact the use and effectiveness of decision su...	DSS Foundations	Mar 13, 2019
How does edge computing impact decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Edge computing means more data for predictive analytics and model-driven decision support can be proc...	DSS Foundations	Feb 10, 2019
What is the confirmation bias? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com We rationalize, we seek evidence that confirms our beliefs and conclusions, we deny or disregard facts th...	DSS Foundations	Jul 02, 2019
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
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 the need for decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com There is a growing need for decision support: 1) decision-making is challenging and the challenge to ...	DSS Foundations	Apr 29, 2017
Can mHealth help physicians manage patients and reduce their own cognitive workloads? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin mHealth is an umbrella term for any use of mobile devices and telecommunications to support the practice of medic...	DSS Foundations	Jul 21, 2020
What user characteristics are important when designing decision support applications? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Answering the question "Who will use a decision support application?" is critical in interface and ap...	DSS Foundations	Jun 08, 2013
What is the relationship between DSS and Expert Systems? This response was written in reply to Pat Nathan. Pat writes “Hi Dan, What do you think of DSS and Expert Systems?” Pat’s other questions are qu...	Knowledge-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
How do individual differences impact use of decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM People differ in abilities, capabilities, attitudes, beliefs, biases and knowledge, among many possib...	DSS Foundations	Nov 30, 2018
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
What is the relationship of expert systems and business decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Both expert systems and decision support systems attempt to use software to improve decision making. Exper...	Knowledge-driven DSS	Dec 10, 2008
Can computerized decision support reduce cognitive biases in decision making? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Individuals have predictable thinking patterns. Some patterns are positive and others lead to poor choic...	Building DSS	Jan 10, 2019
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
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 are benefits of decision support applications in the cloud? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Cloud computing is a distributed computing model that uses a network to share resources. The resources a...	DSS Foundations	Jul 08, 2012
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 various categories and classifications for decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Computerized decision support systems emerged in the 1960s with model-driven DSS. Decision Support Sys...	DSS Foundations	Mar 17, 2020
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
Can decision support aid in critical thinking? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Critical thinking is discussed broadly in education circles. Teaching students to be "critical thinke...	DSS Foundations	Nov 25, 2015
What are current developments and issues related to group decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Specialized decision rooms with fixed desktop computers have become largely obsolete. Team rooms and corpo...	DSS Foundations	Dec 31, 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
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
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
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
Can we engineer effective decision support systems? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Building effective computerized decision support systems is possible and increasingly common. Understandi...	Building DSS	Dec 30, 2012
Can DSS impact decision outcomes? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Building a computerized decision support system does not necessarily improve decision outcomes. Sadly, a p...	DSS Theory	Apr 02, 2008
What is mobile decision support? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Mobile devices can empower decision makers. Mobile decision support uses wireless technology and portable...	DSS Theory	Nov 11, 2012
What is mobile business intelligence? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Mobile business intelligence refers to data-driven decision support applications on mobile devices like sma...	DSS Foundations	Nov 20, 2012
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 are Decision Support technology trends? At the turn of the year, it is common to think about trends and future developments related to many topics. The pace of technology change is speeding ...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 07, 2005
What are examples of decision support paradoxes? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Computerized decision support remains controversial. One goal of decision support is to improve decision m...	DSS Foundations	Sep 18, 2016
How can DSS help in crisis planning, response and management? This Ask Dan! is a follow-up to a column written in August 2003. My goal is to discuss "some of the more creative and practical things we can u...	Crisis Management	Aug 16, 2005
What skills do data-driven decision makers need? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision making habits are often learned by trial and error. Decision making skills are learned throu...	DSS Foundations	Dec 22, 2014
Why do some managers resist using DSS? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com Opposing change, especially technology change, is common and often times misguided. Rational opposition ...	DSS Foundations	Nov 22, 2020
What are critical success factors for using advanced analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Presence of critical success factors (CSF) influence the performance of a task, project or organizati...	DSS Foundations	Dec 21, 2013
What are the advantages and disadvantages of computerized decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM This question in various forms has been popular in the Ask Dan! email. For example, J. Maclearn aske...	DSS Theory	Mar 02, 2007
What is User Experience (UX) design for building DSS? by Ciara Heavin Managing Editor, Journal of Decision Systems and Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM People must interact with a compu...	DSS Foundations	Nov 15, 2018
What are major managerial dilemmas of digital transformation? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers face some difficult choices among potentially disruptive or in other ways undesirable soluti...	DSS Foundations	May 29, 2017
What is your analysis of the history and current status of DSS? The introduction of the personal computer in the early 1980s led some people to conclude that technology had reached the level where we could do just ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 07, 2005
Do DSS builders assume their targeted users are rational thinkers? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Attitudes that we, as DSS builders, have toward potential users of a proposed DSS influences our design cho...	Building DSS	Feb 26, 2011
How should managers implement an Intelligent Automation strategy? Daniel J. Power Intelligent automation (IA) is changing business operations and it is necessary to implement such systems to stay competitive in ma...	DSS Foundations	Jul 31, 2020
What increases success for data-based decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data-based decision support development is a company-wide effort and requires many resources, includi...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2017
What are the steps to develop data-based decision support? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Encouraging and developing data-based decision support is an organization-wide effort and requires many resou...	DSS Foundations	Mar 18, 2018
What is DSS 2.0? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Discontinuities and major technology change can result in improving and significantly altering the sc...	DSS Foundations	Jul 19, 2014
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 is a RESTful decision support application? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A specific decision support vision and a well-defined architecture for a new application provides a d...	DSS Foundations	Jan 19, 2014
What is data? by Daniel J. Power Data is important. Data is growing rapidly. Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day or 2.5 billion giga...	DSS Foundations	Jan 06, 2020
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

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