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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 big data analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Big data analytics combines buzz words and is a buzz phrase. The basic idea of this new business jarg...	DSS Foundations	Jul 15, 2018
What is the impact of social media on decision making? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Information technology is changing how we communicate, obtain and process information for personal and work...	DSS Foundations	May 10, 2011
How do social media impact decision making? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Social media is increasing its penetration into our lives. These online technology tools help us use the I...	DSS Foundations	May 29, 2011
What is currently possible with communications-driven decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Technology has improved for supporting groups and teams since 2001. In a status report (Power,2001), the co...	DSS Foundations	Sep 28, 2013
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
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
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 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
What is digital data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Blog posts, tweets and high definition movies are all digitized. We live in a digital universe of bit...	DSS Foundations	Jan 04, 2020
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
How can managers cope with digital disruption? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Nineteen fifty one (1951) marks the beginning of the first wave of economic and social digital disruption and tr...	DSS Foundations	Jun 25, 2018
What are sources of data for building a data-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers and IT staff who are thinking about opportunities for building innovative, data-driven decision su...	DSS Foundations	Jun 20, 2014
What vendors have communications-driven DSS for collaboration? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com With the growth of cloud computing more sophisticated communications-driven DSS have been developed to ass...	DSS Foundations	Dec 17, 2011
How important is trust to the use of decision support technologies? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision support acceptance means that potential users trust the system and its analysis. Trust is e...	DSS Foundations	May 26, 2015
How can DSS builders reduce resistance to a new system? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com A new decision support system (DSS) may be an incremental change in an existing process, or provide a radi...	Building DSS	Nov 12, 2008
Can 'Big Brother' watch us? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com "Big Brother" is a familiar metaphor that conjures up visions of political surveillance, political control...	DSS Foundations	May 30, 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 are sensors, actuators and effectors? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Sensors provide data on the immediate, surrounding or ambient environment of interest for control or ...	DSS Foundations	Mar 16, 2019
When is a group DSS most appropriate? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Communications-driven and model-driven group decision support systems (GDSS) help people overcome group com...	DSS Foundations	Aug 11, 2010
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
How will decision support technologies shape our global society? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Change is definitely occurring in our global society. Some changes are minor and seemingly insignific...	DSS Foundations	Aug 04, 2013
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
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 agile project management? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Applying agile values and principles to managing a project is commonly identified as Agile Project Management (AP...	DSS Foundations	Mar 15, 2020
What is a data lake? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data lake is a metaphor for a data storage structure. In the physical world, a lake is a basin filled...	DSS Foundations	Aug 10, 2018
What is an information system? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Modern information systems combine computing hardware, software, networking and storage infrastructu...	DSS Foundations	Jan 11, 2020
What is DevOps and is it important to decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM DevOps is a made-up term for a software/systems development method, practice or technique that combi...	DSS Foundations	Nov 14, 2015
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 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
When should managers use communications-driven decision support tools? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Communications-driven decision support systems can remedy a number of problems associated with group commun...	Communications-driven DSS	Sep 15, 2009
Does the term big data have utility for managers? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Big data is a colorful phrase for a significant change in data capture, retrieval and storage. Each...	Data-driven DSS	Apr 10, 2014
Can decision support reduce the bike shed problem? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Important decision situations often have many issues that need to be addressed. Some issues are more ...	DSS Foundations	May 04, 2015
What is an algorithmic system? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com An algorithm (pronounced AL-go-rith-um) is a well-defined procedure for solving a problem, based on ...	DSS Foundations	Jun 25, 2018
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
How does a data architecture impact decision support capabilities? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A data architecture is important, but sometimes the task of creating a formal architecture document se...	DSS Foundations	Mar 31, 2015
How has mobile computing technology evolved for decision support? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Information technology innovation occurs in a complex environment of evolving complementary capabilities....	Communications-driven DSS	Oct 24, 2012
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 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 are examples of clinical decision aids? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A decision aid is a tool that assists a person in making a specific decision. For example, a highway ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 11, 2019
What is a Spatial DSS? &subarticlby Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Web-based systems like Google Maps and MapQuest have demonstrated the importance and value of hav...	Data-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What are characteristics of a decision support system? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com How do you know a computerized system is a decision support system (DSS)? This question is important becaus...	DSS Theory	Oct 05, 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
What is digital disruption? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Digital disruption can be viewed as either a problem or as an opportunity or even perhaps as both sim...	DSS Foundations	May 14, 2019
What is the information technology productivity paradox? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Starry-eyed salespeople proclaimed that information technology would revolutionize organizations, cre...	DSS Foundations	Dec 24, 2018
Can DSS enhance sustainability efforts? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Sustainability is the capacity to endure. Computerized decision support can potentially help managers and i...	DSS Foundations	Jul 30, 2012
What are issues in design and development of BI and DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Building data-driven business intelligence decision support, model-driven decision support for foreca...	DSS Foundations	Nov 11, 2018
What are example uses of business analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM There are many applications and uses of business analytics. Quantitative and analytical models and to...	DSS Foundations	Nov 24, 2018
Can DSS help avoid hacking? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Maybe. One way to explore this question is to examine specific hacking examples and consider if DSS w...	DSS Foundations	Oct 15, 2018
Can decision support developers reduce the probability of solving the ‘wrong’ problem? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data analytics and decision support systems are intended to help people, especially managers, make be...	DSS Foundations	Jun 25, 2017

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