Decision Support News
D. J. Power, Editor
August 16, 2020 Vol. 21, No. 17
Inaugural newsletter issue was May 10, 2000, this is issue 527.
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1) What is the Amazon working backwards approach?
2) Recent Decision Support News Headlines
3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers
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1) What is the Amazon working backwards approach?
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by Daniel J. Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, has had great success since the Amazon e-tailing website launched on July 16, 1995 as an Internet bookseller. Bezos pushes innovation and a Day 1 mentality. One process tool that Amazon managers use is called "working backwards" (WB). Using WB seems to encourage more successful innovation. The approach has become formalized, but the idea is simple: start product development with a vision of the final product and then work backwards to make that vision a reality. Goal or vision-driven behavior is not a new concept. It seems that managers at Amazon have added a few process twists that seem to work.
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2) Recent Decision Support Headlines
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08/12/2020 Webinar on IT transformation: Roadmap to a modern analytics platform. Check release.
08/12/2020 Tableau 2020.3 adds external write to database, enhanced administrator tools. Check release.
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3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences
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1. ICIS 2020 is Going Virtual on December 13-16, 2020, with pre-ICIS events beginning on December 12. Check the website at URL https://icis2020.aisconferences.org/
2. Call for articles Journal of Business Analytics, an official journal of the Operational Research Society. The journal serves the emerging and rapidly growing community of business analytics both in academia and industry. Check https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjba20/current.
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