Synopses & Reviews
"A survival guide for business management professionals, this valuable book helps users learn to make and support managerial decisions wisely and successfully, providing a thorough understanding of the support aspect of DSS. Packed with essential information, it is written from a cognitive processes and decision-making perspective, concentrating on issues that emphasize managerial applications and the implication of decision support technology on those issues." Provides a strong managerial application and use approach throughout, with a "real-world" orientation that emphasizes application and implementation over design and developments in all topic areas. Offers extensive coverage of decision-making theory (decision styles, decision effectiveness, cognitive processes, and organizational culture), and contains full chapters on data mining, data visualization, and creative decisions and problem-solving. A real-life Mini-Case opens each chapter, and concepts are supported throughout with extensive visuals and examples.
Synopsis
Packed with essential information, this valuable volume helps future business management professionals learn to make and support managerial decisions, providing a thorough understanding of the support aspect of DSS. Written from a cognitive processes and decision-making perspective, it concentrates on issues that emphasize managerial applications and the implication of decision support technology on those issues. The volume examines data warehouses, intelligent software agents and DSS system development, as well as an introduction to decision support systems, decision in the organization, modeling decision processes, group decision support and groupware technologies, executive information systems, expert systems and artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and acquisition, and data mining and data visualization. For Data Warehouse Administrators, CIO and Directors of Information Systems.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-495) and index.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Decision Support Systems. 2. Decisions and Decision Makers.
3. Decision in the Organization.
4. Modeling Decision Processes.
5. Group Decision Support and Groupware Technologies.
6. Executive Information Systems.
7. Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence.
8. Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition.
9. Machines That Can Learn.
10. The Data Warehouse.
11. Data Mining and Data Visualization.
12. Designing and Building the Data Warehouse.
13. The Systems Perspective of a DSS.
14. Designing and Building Decision Support Systems.
15. Implementing and Integrating Decision Support Systems.
16. Creative Decision Making and Problem Solving.
17. Intelligent Software Agents, Bots, Delegation, and Agency.
18. Decision Support in the Twenty-First Century.
Appendix A: Decision Style Inventory III.
References.
Index.