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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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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
What are post-relational databases? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com Post-relational or non-relational databases implement a conceptual schema using a non-relational data mo...	DSS Foundations	Aug 20, 2016
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 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 technologies are used for managing big data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Data-driven DSS and predictive analytics frequently need to access and process very large data sets ...	DSS Foundations	Nov 10, 2016
How do predictive analytics support decision making? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Predictive analytics is a general term for using simple and complex models to support anticipatory decisio...	Building DSS	Jul 30, 2012
Who uses computerized decision support and analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM and Ciara Heavin Managing Editor, Journal of Decision Systems Traditionally, many researchers a...	DSS Foundations	Jan 08, 2017
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 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
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
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
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
Why is ethical behavior especially important for IT professionals? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Information technology (IT) professionals are the enablers and "gatekeepers" of our digital society. As the gatek...	DSS Foundations	Jul 14, 2020
What is the difference between formative and summative DSS evaluation? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com More evaluation is needed for decision support, analytics and business intelligence projects. Developers ...	Evaluating DSS Projects	Jan 27, 2016
What is surveillance analytics? Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Monitoring and tracking of what is occurring is not a new phenomenon. People and various activities have been obs...	DSS Foundations	Dec 05, 2020
How can managers and technology staff secure decision support data and decision support systems? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Using computers to support business decision making is mission critical in many companies, but security f...	Building DSS	Nov 15, 2007
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 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 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 age appropriate data use? Daniel J. Power Editor DSSResources.com The abuse and misuse of data can negatively impact behavior, hurt feelings, and in some cases cause seriou...	DSS Foundations	May 26, 2019
What happened at DSSResources.COM in 2001? "It's NOT easy to make money with your computer at home!" I got this message in an email shortly after receiving a question about "how ...	DSSResources.com	Sep 13, 2005
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

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