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decision systems for business intelligence
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Decision Systems for Business Intelligence
There are multiple critical functions that a MBMS must provide, including alternative generation, model selection, access to models, and sensitivity analysis. Discuss how you might include these
Consider preparing a DSS for which certainty factors are relevant. This may be a class project, an example with which you are familiar, or a hypothetical example. What issues need to be tracked with
How can a DSS decrease a manager's anxiety about using models?
Suppose you were using a DSS to decide what courses to take for the next semester. What kinds of models would you need? What kinds of sensitivity analyses would you do?
How can a designer ensure models in a DSS are integrated?
How can a designer improve the users' understanding of results of a model in a DSS?
What are the long-term implications for business when too much intelligence is included in a DSS?
Historically, what were the differences between decision support and expert systems? What factors led to the narrowing of those differences? What implication does this have for the model management
How do you know when you have included enough "intelligence" in a decision support system?
Discuss the difference between the concepts of "disbelief" and "the lack of belief in decision making and the role these concepts play in selecting an automobile. What is the implication for building
Does a CASE tool use models? Describe them. Is it a DSS? If not, explain why it does not have the attributes of a DSS. If so, explain how we might design CASE tools better by considering DSS
What are certainty factors? What are the risks and advantages of their use?
What is a model and why would a manager use one?
Suppose you are developing a DSS to aid an MIS manager in deciding how to acquire computers and computer components for her company. What kinds of models would you provide in such a system? How would
What is a data cube? How do DSS take advantage of that structure?
What is OLAP? How does it differ from ROLAP or MOLAP?
Learn about the architecture of your university's data warehouse or of one at a local company. Discuss it.
Consider the data in question 15. What kinds of data adjustment would you expect to do before you load the data in the data warehouse?Question 15.Suppose you were taking data from application forms
Suppose you were taking data from application forms at your university? Some of the data are already saved electronically in databases. What kinds of data scrubbing would you need to do before you
Does your university have a data warehouse? For what kinds of things is it used? How does it help with decision making?
What is the difference between a database and a data warehouse?
How does a database differ from a file?
Consider a specific decision. What kinds of data need to be included in the decision?
What kinds of validity threats do you have if data were obtained through data-mining activities?
Discuss how data warehousing has improved the usability of DSSs in corporate settings.
Discuss the limitations for providing decision support that are imposed if data are stored in a hierarchical database or a network database.
What kinds of private data might retail sales buyers maintain in a DSS?
Is material found on the World Wide Web "information" or "data"? What factors did you use to make that determination?
Under what circumstances might designers be more concerned about the "appropriateness of the format" of the information than the "timeliness" of the information?
How would a DSS designer determine what information is most important to users?
Comment on the following statement: A good DSS should provide the manager as much information as possible and that information should be provided no more than 5 seconds after requested.
Consider the data discussed in question 1. How would you process those data to transform them into information?Question 1.Consider the decision to register for courses in a given semester. What kinds
Consider the decision to register for courses in a given semester. What kinds of data would you use in that choice process? Why would you use those data?
Simon identifies three stages of decision making: intelligence, design, and choice. In the first stage, intelligence, decision makers monitor their environment so as to define problems and
Identify a specific features for a DSS (or your choice) that would be driven by the decision-making style issues discussed by Dreyfus and Dreyfus. Identify the feature, how you would operationalize
Consider the decision-making theories associated with Piaget and discuss how these theories will impact the design of a DSS. In particular, identify a specific feature for the DSS that would be
How does competitive business intelligence differ from other forms of business intelligence?
What are analytics? How do DSS facilitate use of analytics?
What is business intelligence? How do DSS facilitate BI?
Select a specific problem at a company. How would you design a DSS to help encourage use of intuition in solving that problem? How would you use DSS to monitor the use of intuition to ensure it is
When you study for a class, do you track your experiences? How might that help your performance in class?
What factors do you screen out when you wark? How does that impact your decision making?
How do hyperlinks, such as those found on Web pages, help decision makers follow possible evidence regarding a decision?
Describe how you might have implemented deBono's hat methodology for a recent decision you have made. What additional information would you have considered had you done that? Would the decision have
Suppose you were attempting to justify the development of a DSS for a corporation. Discuss how you would justify the expenditures.
Consider a company that has had major financial difficulties in the recent past. Discuss how the use of a DSS might have helped management to discover and repair problems earlier. Be specific in your
How does bounded rationality impact your decisions each day?
Discuss the various forms of rationality in terms of your decision to select the college you attend. Which form of rationality had the strongest impact on your decision to select that college?
Examine a decision that is descussed in the newspaper or a news magazine. Discuss how the various forms of rationality are discussed as the decision is described. Did they discuss each of the forms
Describe the DSS you might provide to Sherlock Holmes. Be sure to describe all components of a DSS.
What changes would you make to an electronic book catalog system (such as you find in your library) to transform it into a good DSS.
Describe how DSS can illustrate the tenets of decision making. That is, identify how systems can provide support in a manner that is prescribed by the decisions-making literature covered in this
Discuss how the model proposed by Dreyfus and Dreyfus provides guidance for the evolutionary design of decision support systems.
Is an ERP system a DSS? Why or why not?
Identify a newspaper or news magazine that describes a decision. Discuss the decision( s) being considered, the model and/or data used to consider the decision, the model and/or data that should used
What kind of DSS might help you in planning your studies and/or career?
Does your university use DSS? If so, how do they help the decision making of the university? If not, why are they not used?
What is the difference between a good decision and a good outcome? What does a DSS help?
Consider the system developed for the Manhattan court system at the beginning of this chapter. What attributes of the system make it a DSS? How do you know it is not a transaction processing system
Why must a corporation have good transactional processing systems before implementing a DSS?
Discuss examples of when one would want "expertise" integrated into a DSS.
The literature often separates "expert systems" applications from "decision support systems" applications. Discuss why they should be considered separately.
Find an application of a DSS in an area of interest to you. What are the good aspects of the DSS? In a real DSS, some of the technical niceties are generally sacrificed for the realities of the
Consider popular descriptions of computerized systems you have encountered over the last several months. Are any of these systems DSS? Why or why not?
What conditions suggest the need for a DSS?
List the major benefits of DSS.
Define DSS. How are they different from transactional process systems?
What factors inhibit the growth of DSS in today's business?
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