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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
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
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 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
How does decision support processing differ from transaction processing? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Information systems can be categorized in many ways, but historically business information systems began a...	Building DSS	Jan 04, 2014
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 skills do team leaders need for conducting effective virtual decision-making meetings? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In general, team leaders need planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling skills (cf., Huber,...	Communications-driven DSS	Aug 02, 2006
Who originated the term Business Intelligence (BI)? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Decision support and data warehousing sources agree that Howard Dresner coined and popularized the term Bu...	DSS Foundations	Jun 29, 2016
What is best practice for data visualization? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Visualizing data means that we can see relationships if they exist. A visualization is a short cut to un...	DSS Foundations	Dec 23, 2012
How smart is IBM Watson? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM IBM is heavily promoting a cognitive system named Watson in television ads. A major selling point is t...	Knowledge-driven DSS	Dec 16, 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
Why are quantitative models useful for decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers need to understand the value that a quantitative model creates for decision making. By identifyin...	DSS Foundations	Jan 28, 2013
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
How many DSS related pages are on the Web? One means of finding Web sites relevant to DSS is to use a search engine. Another way is to use a Web index. AltaVista (URL http://www.altavista...	DSSResources.com	Aug 25, 2005
What is the best data analytics approach? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Selecting the most appropriate data analytics approach and tools for a specific task or project can be very c...	DSS Foundations	Sep 18, 2017
What are concerns about end-user DSS development? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com End-user development of decision support systems (DSS) puts the responsibility for building and maintaining...	Building DSS	Jun 02, 2010
Should managers build decision support applications? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers get paid to manage, but in some situations managers can build computerized decision support capabi...	DSS Foundations	Feb 02, 2013
What is an appropriate DSS deployment strategy? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Decision support system (DSS) development often follows a sequence of awareness, plan, analysis, design, b...	Building DSS	Oct 14, 2008
What is a database? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Database is a fundamental concept for information technology professionals. While some lay people have an ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 09, 2017
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 the INVEST criteria for evaluating project tasks? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM The Agile Alliance (agilealliance.org/) glossary states "the acronym INVEST helps to remember a widel...	DSS Foundations	Feb 14, 2020
What is a computer supported special decision study? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Frequently, computerized tools are used to prepare one-time special studies and reports in unstructured, ...	DSS Foundations	Dec 23, 2015
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 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 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 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 are various agile approaches? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Information technology/Information Systems professionals have been refining and trying various agile approaches f...	DSS Foundations	Mar 27, 2020
What is User Experience (UX) design for building DSS? by Ciara Heavin Managing Editor, Journal of Decision Systems and Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM People must interact with a compu...	DSS Foundations	Nov 15, 2018
What is an agile framework for projects? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com An agile framework or methodology guides teams in an iterative and incremental delivery of a project goal...	DSS Foundations	Feb 06, 2020
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
What is the decision support information demand and supply equilibrium? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM At equilibrium the demand for decision support data and information equals the supply. In this era of...	DSS Foundations	Oct 28, 2018
What is the status of Clinical and Hospital Administration DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Both clinical and hospital administration decision support are evolving rapidly. HealthIT.gov is an excelle...	Knowledge-driven DSS	May 13, 2016
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 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 SQL knowledge do managers need for decision support queries? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Structured Query Language (SQL)is considered difficult for most managers to learn and use. SQL is a complex...	Data-driven DSS	Mar 18, 2011
What are some examples of web-based DSS? Most people who read about decision support systems want to try one. This is understandable given the promise associated with an information system th...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005
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
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 type of DSS is a Revenue Management application? On March 05, 2004, Tommy Wiratama posted the following at DSSResources.COM:Dear Dr. Power,I'm looking into existing revenue management technologies, e...	DSS Applications	Aug 25, 2005
What are common data mining mistakes? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data mining is a broad term for identifying patterns in data, analyzing data and summarizing it into useful...	DSS Foundations	Dec 19, 2010
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 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
What method is best for building an enterprise-wide, data-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Agile, SDLC, rapid prototyping, Spiral, RAD? Or some combination of methods? Information Technology manager...	Building DSS	Aug 31, 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
What do managers need to know about IS/IT, MIS and DSS? In the academic field of Information Systems we have repeatedly asked the question “What do managers need to know about IS/IT, MIS and DSS?” All o...	DSS Theory	Aug 06, 2005
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
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 are the rules for building a successful model-driven DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM It is important to discuss what impacts the success of computerized Decision Support Systems. My DSS bo...	Model-driven DSS	Oct 22, 2006
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 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

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