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decision systems for business intelligence
Decision Systems for Business Intelligence 2nd edition Vicki L. Sauter - Solutions
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 of rationality? Why do you think that is so?
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 chapter.
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 to consider the decision, and how a DSS might help.
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 or an expert 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 situation. What technical niceties were sacrificed in your system? Were they reasonable sacrifices?
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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