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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
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
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
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
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 data mining and how is it related to DSS? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com Data mining is a data analysis innovation first discussed in the 1990s. "Big data" and analytics has led...	Knowledge-driven DSS	Nov 30, 2015
What is group-chat? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com According to Dan Ring, at TechTarget, "Microsoft Teams and Workplace by Facebook are facing off agai...	DSS Foundations	Jan 25, 2017
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
Will thinking machines make better decisions than people? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Fifty years of computing technology improvement has led to faster computation, faster transmission of data ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 30, 2012
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 evaluation tools are appropriate for DSS? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com Managers evaluate many types of projects, but those involving information technologies are often consid...	DSS Foundations	Dec 06, 2020
What are examples of decision support paradoxes? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Computerized decision support remains controversial. One goal of decision support is to improve decision m...	DSS Foundations	Sep 18, 2016
What is agile project management? Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Applying agile values and principles to managing a project is commonly identified as Agile Project Management (AP...	DSS Foundations	Mar 15, 2020
Is the technology acceptance model relevant to decision support? by Daniel Power Editor, DSSResources.com Substantial resources are expended building and installing decision support systems. Some guidance about...	DSS Foundations	Jul 31, 2016
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 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 a decision process audit? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com Increasing decision-making effectiveness should be the major objective for any DSS project. Stabell (1983) ...	DSS Foundations	Jul 07, 2009
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
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 is the role of an agile coach? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM A job description for an agile coach is evolving and very loosely defined. According to Layton (2012)...	DSS Foundations	Mar 15, 2020
What is agile leadership? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Some may be skeptical about agile and others may think the term is overused. In reality, becoming more ag...	DSS Foundations	Jun 19, 2019
What are pros and cons of self-service data analytics tools? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Many managers and employees want more direct access to proprietary organization data. Vendors promote...	DSS Foundations	Oct 09, 2017
Is tax preparation software an example of a DSS? "Is X a DSS?" is a common question in the Ask Dan! email. Let's try to figure out the answer to this question together.First, what is the pu...	DSS Applications	Aug 07, 2005
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
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
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 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 an enterprise-class translytical database? by Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin Translytical is a portmanteau word, in that parts of the words transaction and analytical are combined to form...	DSS Foundations	Oct 02, 2017
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
How can video conferencing provide enhanced decision support? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In some situations, video conferencing can provide enhanced decision support. The major issue facing m...	DSS Foundations	May 24, 2015
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 decision automation a hot topic? Does using a DSS require statistical expertise? YES and NO. Decision automation refers to using technologies including computer processing to make decisions and implement programmed decision process...	DSS Foundations	Aug 16, 2005
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 major ideas and concepts in agile? by Daniel J. Power The scrum approach originated as an agile software development framework because practitioners wanted a better process to improv...	DSS Foundations	Dec 06, 2019
What is the difference between a DSS and a DSS generator? This Ask Dan! expands upon the question "What is a DSS?" from September 12, 2004. John Wen had asked on the Free DSS Forum at DSSResources.C...	Building DSS	Aug 06, 2005
Is reengineering needed to build an effective DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com No! Some specific business decision processes have serious weaknesses and problems that can be solved by i...	Building DSS	Nov 15, 2007
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
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 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
Are Executive Information Systems (EIS) needed? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com At least 30 years ago, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) began going online for information (cf., Rockhart, ...	Data-driven DSS	Sep 17, 2008
What is the best approach for organizing data? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM In an information technology context, organizing means to arrange data in a coherent form and to syst...	DSS Foundations	Jul 25, 2013
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
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 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 the factory of the future? Daniel J. Power Ciara Heavin and Shashidhar Kaparthi The "Factory of the Future" (FoF) is a vision of automated production. In some descriptions,...	DSS Foundations	Apr 17, 2020
How does business analytics differ from data analytics? by Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.COM Both business analytics and data analytics are relatively new terms in the business lexicon. Students...	DSS Foundations	Jun 24, 2018
What are key agile concepts? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Learning and understanding agile concepts is a starting point to becoming agile and collaborative as a pr...	DSS Foundations	Jun 20, 2019
What are the Scrum Framework fundamentals? Daniel J. Power Editor, DSSResources.com Scrum is an agile framework and structured set of ideas that is intended to help teams collaborate on com...	DSS Foundations	Feb 06, 2020
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
What is a cost estimation DSS? by Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.com In many industries, bids are submitted in response to requests for proposals (RFPs). Preparing a bid for a ...	DSS Applications	May 13, 2017

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