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What is virtualization? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Actual and virtual are antonyms. An actual disk drive is a physical drive while a virtual drive only ...	DSS Foundations	Sep 29, 2017
What is the role of decision support in virtual organizations? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Computerized decision support helps make virtual organizations possible. DSS is an enabler and a facilitat...	Communications-driven DSS	Mar 06, 2016
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
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
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
What are current trends in BI and Data Analytics? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power For the foreseeable future, Business Intelligence and data analytics technologies will continue as key enable...	DSS Foundations	Feb 18, 2017
What are the features of a communications-driven DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Questions about the features and characteristics of the five types of DSS (Power, 2002) are common i...	Communications-driven DSS	Mar 02, 2007
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
What are examples of technology innovation failures? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Technology success has led to innovations in organization decision making, operations, and products. ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 08, 2017
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
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 digital transformation of an organization? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Digital transformation changes processes, systems and operations by implementing improved computing technologi...	DSS Foundations	May 13, 2018
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
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 currently possible with Communications-Driven DSS? For more than a week in October 2001, I tried to use Communication and Information Technologies to coordinate my teaching activities and manage DSSRes...	Communications-driven DSS	Aug 06, 2005
What are the origins of SIG DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com SIG DSS is the Special Interest Group about Decision Support and Analytical Information Systems affiliated ...	AIS SIG DSS	Feb 13, 2014
What are examples of database project failures? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Database centered projects for decision support and transaction processing do fail. How often? Acco...	DSS Foundations	Aug 18, 2013
What is digital disruption? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Digital disruption can be viewed as either a problem or as an opportunity or even perhaps as both sim...	DSS Foundations	May 14, 2019
Is ETL software needed to build a model-driven DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM ETL refers to software used in the process of extracting data from a data source, transforming or alt...	Model-driven DSS	Apr 15, 2017
What is augmented decision-making? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM People often make bad or "less" than optimal decisions. Do you think it would be great if a compute...	DSS Foundations	Oct 26, 2013
What is the technology adoption curve? Is it relevant to DSS? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM The technology adoption curve (TAC) is a theory about how individuals and organizations behave in impl...	DSS Theory	Dec 31, 2019
What is the future of decision support and analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Decision support and business analytics can provide managers the numbers and metrics for both day-to-...	DSS Foundations	Nov 26, 2019
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 should managers know about predictive analytics and model-driven decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Companies are implementing predictive analytics and quantitative models to assist managers. There remain ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 19, 2012
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 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
What are design elements in a DSS user interface? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com A design element is a discreet, identifiable component that appears in the user interface of computerized...	Building DSS	Feb 13, 2019
What is involved in providing decision support for global enterprises? by Dan Power The theme for the upcoming 9th International Conference for AIS SIG DSS: the International Society for Decision Support Systems (IC...	DSS Theory	Aug 01, 2006
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
How has the health crisis impacted use of information technologies? by Daniel J. Power The novel coronavirus pandemic has been impacting our lives for many months. People and organizations have rapidly adopted and u...	DSS Foundations	Oct 31, 2020
What are the “best” DSS case studies at DSSResources.COM? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Professor Roth and I started following DSS/IT developments at Ertl Company in 1997. The Ertl case (Power and...	DSS Applications	Nov 08, 2006
How will Web 2.0 impact design and development of decision support systems? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Web 2.0 applications facilitate information sharing, user-centered design, and collaboration. In the past 5...	DSS Foundations	Jan 03, 2011
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Second Life for decision support? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Multi-user visual simulations are at the leading and bleeding edge for computerized decision support. The maj...	Model-driven DSS	Aug 19, 2007
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
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 benefits of using decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Organizational benefits of using computerized decision support include: Help Team Members Function ...	DSS Foundations	Dec 02, 2016
How are organizational decisions made? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com One of the most debated and studied organizational decision processes is the decision making by President J...	DSS Foundations	Dec 24, 2010
What is the impact of information management on the organization? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Thirty years ago, at the start of my career, I addressed this question (cf., Power, 1983). My MIS Qua...	DSS Foundations	Nov 24, 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
What are the most cited DSS articles and books? Decision Support Research: Most Cited Articles and Books by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Research and scholarship about Decision ...	DSS Foundations	Aug 24, 2018
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
How complex is managing? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Management roles are increasingly specialized, management tasks are often complex, and projects have expa...	DSS Foundations	Aug 28, 2019
Why are some organizations slow to adopt new decision support technologies? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Change and innovation continues related to computerized decision support. Some managers seem quick to pur...	DSS Foundations	Jul 22, 2012
Why use a common language when developing and using decision support? by Ciara Heavin and Daniel J. Power Developing a common language between developers, managers and other decision support users improves communica...	DSS Foundations	Feb 04, 2017
What policies should govern Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are reaching the point where both organizations and governm...	DSS Foundations	Aug 05, 2020
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
What is a decision system? Daniel J. Power, Ciara Heavin, and Peter Keenan A decision system is a collection of information-processing components that interact to make deci...	DSS Foundations	Sep 02, 2018
What is DevOps and is it important to decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM DevOps is a made-up term for a software/systems development method, practice or technique that combi...	DSS Foundations	Nov 14, 2015
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 are critical success factors for using advanced analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Presence of critical success factors (CSF) influence the performance of a task, project or organizati...	DSS Foundations	Dec 21, 2013

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