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What decisions are appropriate for model-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some decision problems occur across diverse businesses. Various approaches can be used to solve them depen...	Model-driven DSS	Dec 29, 2008
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
How do decision questions differ? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com A choice or decision often results from answering a question like "What should be done?" Understandi...	DSS Theory	Aug 21, 2020
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 are specific benefits of document-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Document-driven DSS is a relatively new category of computerized decision support. These systems assist in ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 02, 2010
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 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 is the role of decision support in precision farming? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In approximately 8000 B.C. when farming and agrarian communities were established, the population of ...	DSS Foundations	May 24, 2015
What is big data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Big data is an overused and somewhat confusing phrase. Big data is characterized by high volume, low...	DSS Foundations	Jul 02, 2018
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 is the status of Pal Mickey? For a few days in late July 2004, I was conducting field research with my family at Walt Disney World (WDW). Why Walt Disney World? Mickey Mouse is mo...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005
What was the DSS News in October 2000? by Daniel Power Volume 1, issue number 12 of DSS News was published October 9, 2000. Then as now DSS News was a bi-weekly publication of DSSResourc...	DSS Foundations	Oct 11, 2020
How does MDM impact data-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Master data management (MDM) is a complex process made up of a number of interrelated tasks. In general, MD...	DSS Foundations	Aug 05, 2010
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
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 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
What are common barriers and challenges to becoming agile? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Any major change is always somewhat challenging and becoming agile and doing agile is a major change. Transitioni...	DSS Foundations	Mar 01, 2020
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 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
Can decision support provide a competitive advantage? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Some software vendors claim their decision support, analytics or business intelligence applications will ...	DSS Theory	Oct 02, 2012
How is analytics, BI and decision support shaping global society? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Computer-based analysis and decision support began impacting global society in the early 1950s. By 19...	DSS Foundations	Sep 01, 2013
How does the Internet of Things (IoT) support decision making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Supporting decision making is broadening in its scope and in available capabilities. According to Pow...	DSS Foundations	Aug 19, 2018
What are important DSS articles from MIS Quarterly? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com A number of terms have been used for information systems supporting management decision making including m...	DSS Foundations	Jul 27, 2016
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 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
What is a Planning Support System? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Reading the trade press, academic articles and web sites forces those of us interested in computerized supp...	DSS Foundations	Aug 06, 2005
What do I need to know about Data Warehousing/OLAP? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A data warehouse is a central, integrated repository for historical, enterprise data from multiple bus...	Data-driven DSS	Oct 12, 2014
Can decision support improve surveillance and increase privacy? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Some people assume that computerized decision support can help law enforcement use surveillance to de...	DSS Foundations	Sep 22, 2018
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
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
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 technologies are central to digital transformation of healthcare? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power A diverse array of technologies enable and support digital transformation of healthcare. Fitting technologi...	DSS Foundations	Mar 18, 2019
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 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
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
How can data-based decision support facilitate digital transformation of Healthcare? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Disentangling the Gordian Knot associated with Digital Transformation of Healthcare remains challenging and s...	DSS Foundations	Mar 18, 2019
What is operations analysis? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Organizations develop systems and processes to perform tasks. The performance of these operations de...	DSS Foundations	Feb 19, 2015
How can managers improve security for decision support applications? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision support security is important. Managers and Information Systems staff must understand and ex...	DSS Theory	Apr 14, 2013
What was the first computerized decision support system (DSS)? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM There is not a simple, indisputable answer to this question. Some would argue Scott-Morton's Managem...	DSS Foundations	Mar 02, 2007
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

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