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How can we measure the value and success of agile? Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Agile is a complex, abstract concept and there is no single way that individuals and teams "do" agile. Both of th...	DSS Foundations	Sep 27, 2020
What are critical analysis and reasoning skills? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Measuring critical analysis and reasoning skills is often inferred by asking about the basic componen...	DSS Foundations	Mar 20, 2018
What evaluation criteria are used for decision support projects? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com One can categorize computerized decision support project evaluation concerns into 4 general criteria are...	DSS Foundations	Nov 28, 2007
What is project portfolio management? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Project portfolio management (PPM) is a coordination and control process that selects, prioritizes, and s...	DSS Foundations	Jan 20, 2020
What is value-driven delivery of projects and work? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Project managers, team leads, and other managers are encouraged to make project decisions that result in ...	DSS Foundations	Sep 17, 2019
What IS and what IS NOT essential to be agile? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM We are bombarded by buzzwords, technical jargon, and colorful metaphors in the culture of agile proce...	DSS Foundations	Jul 17, 2019
What are 12 agile principles? The following 12 Principles are based on the Agile Manifesto. 1. Satisfy the Customer. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through earl...	DSS Foundations	Jan 19, 2020
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
Can decision makers improve their intuition? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Possibly. First, one must recognize when intuition is dominating the facts or supporting them in a de...	DSS Foundations	Apr 22, 2018
What are key guidelines for decision support user interface design? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM An effective user interface is an important component of any type of information system, but it is ...	DSS Foundations	Dec 22, 2013
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 a recommender system? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A recommender system is a software tool that provides suggestions to a person for a defined domain or ...	DSS Foundations	Apr 27, 2017
What is digital organizational management? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Organizational management is a process of structuring, planning and directing resources and people to achieve goa...	DSS Foundations	Aug 29, 2020
What are common data mining tools? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com As it became possible and affordable to store large amounts of data, managers wanted to access and analyze ...	DSS Foundations	Dec 06, 2009
Where can I find information about KPIs for building DSS in different industries? The topic of identifying KPIs or Key Performance Indicators is a major issue in developing Executive Information Systems, Balanced Scorecard Systems a...	Data-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What are the agile values and principles? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin The Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published in 2001. Seventeen leaders in the field of software...	DSS Foundations	Apr 08, 2020
What steps create a data-driven organization? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Transforming a traditional organization into one where data is systematically incorporated into decis...	DSS Foundations	Jul 26, 2017
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 criteria should be used to evaluate BI/DW vendor solutions? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Selecting an enterprise business intelligence (BI)/data warehouse (DW) vendor solution is an important deci...	DSS Foundations	Dec 26, 2013
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 is digital transformation changing accounting? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM People no longer perform most traditional accounting tasks. Today accounting is much more than record...	DSS Foundations	Nov 21, 2020
What is a "performance" dashboard? A few days ago, I received a very nice promotional brochure from iViz Group (ivizgroup.com) about their "innovative Dashboard and Scorecard software...	Data-driven DSS	Feb 05, 2006
What rules should guide DSS user interface design? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com People must interact with a computerized decision support system to use it. The design of the software inte...	Building DSS	Feb 14, 2011
What is analytical processing? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Transforming data and summarizing it is a key task in many decision making situations. Once this task is co...	DSS Foundations	Feb 12, 2010
What software can help implement the Basel accords? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Identifying and evaluating software for a very broad purpose like supporting the Basel capital accords (htt...	DSS Foundations	Sep 03, 2011
How does data mining provide knowledge? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com In the 1970s, companies employed business analysts who used statistical packages like SAS and SPSS to...	DSS Foundations	Jan 17, 2021
What is a data modeler? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In the era of rapidly expanding, diverse data, someone needs to identify patterns and regularities in...	DSS Foundations	Sep 21, 2015
What should an Agile practitioner know and do? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Knowing agile principles and developing an agile mindset are the starting point of becoming agile. An agi...	DSS Foundations	Jul 01, 2019
How is BPM related to DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Those of us in the field of IS/IT really seem to like our acronyms. Sometimes however different sets of ve...	DSS Foundations	Mar 21, 2009
What is a DSS cost benefit analysis? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Decision support system cost benefit analysis is one technique used to determine if a proposed DSS should b...	DSS Foundations	Jul 18, 2010
Are soft skills important in a digital business? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Some observers claim the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Automation will creat...	DSS Foundations	Feb 12, 2019
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 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
How is Six Sigma related to DSS? For some readers Six Sigma may seem totally unrelated to Decision Support Systems. Others may not be quite certain what exactly "Six Sigma" ...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005
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
Does an “information culture” encourage adopting and using decision support technologies? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Supposedly, the phenomenon of an “information culture” influences why some organizations adopt in...	DSS Theory	Nov 12, 2017
What are the "hot" DSS research topics? Academic research in the U.S. often seems as susceptible to trends and "hot" topics as other segments of our culture. For the past 10 years ...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Aug 07, 2005
What DSS interface design is 'best' for eliciting values? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A person-machine interface is central to the effective use of a computerized system like a decision s...	Building DSS	Aug 17, 2014
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 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
What is business analytics? by Daniel J. Power, Ciara Heavin, James McDermott, and Mary Daly Business analytics (BA) is an abstraction and generalization of many activities ...	DSS Foundations	Mar 16, 2019
What is the symptoms, problems and treatments framework? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Symptoms, problems, and treatments (SPT) is a diagnostic reasoning and problem-solving framework. The st...	DSS Foundations	Jul 07, 2019
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
What are characteristics of decision processes? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In the past 50 years, a number of authors have identified and described characteristics that vary in organi...	DSS Foundations	Oct 11, 2009
What factors influence corporate acquisition decision-making success? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In 2017 in the United States, there were a record number of merger and acquisition transactions with 15,1...	DSS Foundations	May 01, 2019
When is "real-time" decision support desirable and needed? My Ask Dan! column “What is ‘real-time’ decision support in DSS News (Vol. 3, No. 24) struck a chord with some readers. This column is a follow-...	Building DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What is an example of a decision process? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Describing and explaining a specific decision process is often difficult because of problems in defining t...	DSS Theory	Aug 06, 2005
What staffing is needed for DW/BI/DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some Ask Dan! questions are more difficult for me to answer than others. On July 6, 2006, Aileen MacKay se...	Building DSS	Oct 22, 2006
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 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

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