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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 the scope of database administration? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Databases are central to transaction processing and decision support. Database administration is a com...	DSS Foundations	Nov 12, 2014
What is predictive asset management? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Cognizant, Deloitte, IBM, SAS and other vendors and consulting firms are promoting use of predictive ...	DSS Foundations	Jun 27, 2018
What are examples of database project failures? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Database centered projects for decision support and transaction processing do fail. How often? Acco...	DSS Foundations	Aug 18, 2013
What are the most common database design mistakes? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In a 2008 eWeek slide show, Brian Prince identified "The Most Common Database Design Mistakes." The l...	DSS Foundations	Aug 03, 2013
What is ACID and BASE in database theory? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data-driven and document-driven decision support systems derive functionality from data stores and da...	DSS Foundations	Oct 12, 2013
Why are some organizations slow to adopt new decision support technologies? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Change and innovation continues related to computerized decision support. Some managers seem quick to pur...	DSS Foundations	Jul 22, 2012
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 factors impact decision support project implementation risk? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers should contemplate a wide range of decision support projects. Perhaps an enterprise-wide, data wa...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 15, 2008
What is solution-focused agile? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers, project teams, and consultants should focus primarily on the present and future. We examine the...	DSS Foundations	Aug 02, 2019
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
How can managers identify opportunities to create innovative DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Once a manager believes it is possible to gain significant benefits or even a competitive advantage from ...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Dec 12, 2007
What steps can lead to digital transformation? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Digital transformation is an ongoing and evolving process of change that is focused on generating, an...	DSS Foundations	Jan 07, 2018
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
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
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
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 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 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 decision support planning? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Decision support planning is an anticipatory decision-making process that involves critical thinking about ...	DSS Theory	Jun 23, 2009
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 next generation BI? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Most of us recognize that we need better software and systems to get better business intelligence. We also...	DSS Foundations	Jan 14, 2011
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
What if decision support is incorrect? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Analytics and decision support are intended to improve decision making. Both types of systems commonly prov...	DSS Foundations	Apr 14, 2015
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 can one conclude about becoming agile? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Agile behaviors and processes are often better than rigid, bureaucratic ones. Becoming agile is worthwhile. Agile...	DSS Foundations	Aug 06, 2020
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
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
What is Hadoop? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data-driven DSS may need to access and process very large data sets to support decision-making. One way to...	DSS Foundations	May 26, 2013
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
When are checklists useful decision aids? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Checklists are especially helpful in complex environments, but a poorly designed checklist can hinder dec...	DSS Foundations	Aug 03, 2019
What is high-velocity decision making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Strategic, consequential decisions can and often should be made using a high-velocity, high-quality d...	DSS Foundations	Sep 06, 2017
What is the actual usage of DSS? This Ask Dan! column tackles a difficult question, but one that many of us have asked in one way or another over the years. I'm focusing on usage of D...	Building DSS	Aug 06, 2005
How can computerized decision support help in crisis situations? It seems that more crises are occurring in both business and public domains and the magnitude of them is also sometimes much larger than any previousl...	Crisis Management	Aug 16, 2005
What are examples of bad strategic business decisions? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Bad strategic business decisions lead to bad results. The consequences of implementing the decision ma...	DSS Foundations	Jun 22, 2015
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 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 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 is the status of Knowledge Management (KM)? by Dan Power In 1997, Rebecca Barclay and Philip Murray at Knowledge Praxis posted an article titled "What is knowledge management?". The articl...	Document-driven DSS	Aug 01, 2006
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
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
How can decision support aid smart manufacturing initiatives? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM, University of Northern Iowa, USA; Marzieh Khakifirooz, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Mahdi F...	DSS Foundations	Jun 13, 2018
Why are decision support case studies important? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Case studies help us understand decision support. Both teaching and research case studies serve a usef...	DSS Foundations	Aug 02, 2015
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 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 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
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
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 is the factory of the future? Daniel J. Power Ciara Heavin and Shashidhar Kaparthi The "Factory of the Future" (FoF) is a vision of automated production. In some descriptions,...	DSS Foundations	Apr 17, 2020

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