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What is proactive problem solving? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Proactive problem solving is about identifying problems early to avoid them or minimize and resolve th...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2019
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
What is a negotiation support system? Negotiation Support Systems (NSS) are designed to assist negotiators in reaching mutually satisfactory decisions by providing a means of communication...	DSS Foundations	Aug 10, 2007
How important is flexibility for a DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In the early years of computerized decision support, Keen (1980) and Sprague and Carlson (1982) argued th...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2008
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
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
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 the semantic web vision relevant to DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Semantic web describes a vision and design guidelines and tools to let software applications read and un...	Building DSS	Feb 20, 2008
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 determines team performance on a project? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some project teams perform better than others? Why? A project team is a group of people assigned to work ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 02, 2020
What are challenges of real-time decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Pushing "real-time" information to decision makers is now realistic and practical. Real-time decision sup...	Building DSS	Oct 29, 2008
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
Can decision support tools help minimize black swan events? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In decision making and planning, managers are sometimes surprised by unanticipated events. A black sw...	DSS Foundations	Aug 11, 2019
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
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 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
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 questions are important for evaluating a BI proposal? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Introducing a major project to provide enterprise-wide business intelligence is much more than just another...	DSS Foundations	Jan 30, 2011
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 the telephone test? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some semi-structured decisions can be supported using Artificial Intelligence technologies delivered as par...	DSS Foundations	Aug 21, 2011
When is a decision framed properly? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM and Ciara Heavin Managing Editor, Journal of Decision Systems Decisions occur in the context of...	DSS Foundations	Oct 02, 2016
What are the foundation decision support articles in MIS Quarterly? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM MIS as a field of study stretches back almost 50 years (cf. Power, 2007), but the initiation of a new...	DSS Foundations	Dec 21, 2013
What is the role of people in machine learning? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Many tools exist for modeling data using machine learning (ML). The tools have been automated and the...	DSS Foundations	Jan 13, 2021
How can managers hire and retain information technology talent? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Our information technologies continue to change and improve. With developments like Cloud computing,...	DSS Foundations	Feb 02, 2017
What is the OODA loop? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM OODA loop refers to the decision cycle of observe, orient, decide, and act, developed by military stra...	DSS Foundations	Jan 19, 2015
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
How can DSS impact steps in a general decision process model? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com There are many types of computerized decision support systems that support a diverse set of tasks. Exper...	DSS Foundations	May 14, 2008
What is the relation between Design Science and building DSS? Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com For many years, there has been an interest in transferring the concepts and techniques from the broad fiel...	Building DSS	Apr 03, 2016
What is required in an evidence-based decision process? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Effective decision making is a well-worn concept, but specifically it refers to making decisions that...	DSS Foundations	Mar 04, 2018
How can data scientists cope with organization politics? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Business analytics, data analytics and decision support often create political concerns for organization...	DSS Foundations	Jul 21, 2019
What are examples of routine decision support queries? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In the mid-1980s, the introduction of powerful relational database management systems (RDBMS) like Oracle ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 22, 2009
Can computerized decision support reduce information asymmetry? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In multiparty decision situations, one party often has better information than another. These situations c...	DSS Foundations	Apr 29, 2012
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 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 the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)? Better known as "AHP", pronouncing each letter ("A" -- "H" -- "P"), this decision structuring tool is well-kno...	Model-driven DSS	Aug 07, 2005
What are the answers to the DSS case study questions at DSSResources.COM? Recently Zam Zawari wrote "I need your guidelines on how to answer the questions in the case 'MeritCare Health System uses Simulation'". At ...	DSS Applications	Aug 16, 2005
What is a decision question? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM What should we do? Who should do it? Where should a new facility be located? How should a new product...	DSS Foundations	Nov 13, 2019
How do decision-making models relate to the design and use of DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Both descriptive and prescriptive quantitative decision making model asre important to understanding compu...	DSS Theory	Mar 07, 2015
What is a robust decision support quantitative model? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Some quantitative models provide very different results when assumptions are violated and when model ...	DSS Foundations	Apr 17, 2015
Can DSS and Decision Support technologies help reduce the threat of terrorism? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Lest we forget. I want to remember those who died, were injured, and were directly impacted by the te...	DSS Applications	Dec 29, 2015
Why are transportation problems popular applications for DSS? In the early 1970s, many researchers were trying to apply mathematical programming to business problems. The transportation problem was often discusse...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005
What is a decision-centric organization? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Good decisions are important to organization success, but awareness of many important decisions i...	DSS Foundations	Sep 15, 2013
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 important are pivot tables in data-driven decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some analysis tools are used more and are used more effectively than others. For example, pivot tables hav...	DSS Foundations	Jun 25, 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
Who should participate in building decision support capabilities? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Building decision support capabilities requires varied expertise. More complex data, parallel process...	DSS Foundations	May 11, 2013
Is decision making authority shifting in organizations? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Management is about delegating and making decisions. As organizations have gotten larger, more comple...	DSS Foundations	Feb 06, 2014
Is an insight-driven organization myth or reality? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com An insight-driven organization seems more like marketing hype, building on a catchy name, than reality. O...	DSS Foundations	Aug 18, 2019
What is the context of decision making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Context matters. The situation in which a decision must be made influences the decision that is made. ...	DSS Foundations	Jan 05, 2014
What is localization of decision support and analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM As companies expand into the global marketplace decision support and analytics must often be localized...	DSS Foundations	Mar 28, 2015

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