Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Decision Support Systems 44 (2008) 657 – 672 www.elsevier.com/locate/dss Eight key issues for the decision support systems discipline ☆ David Arnott a‚⁎‚ Graham Pervan b a Centre for Decision Support and Enterprise Systems Research‚ Monash University‚ Melbourne‚ Australia b Curtin Business School‚ Curtin University of Technology‚ Perth‚ Australia Received 2 May 2006; received in revised form 26 August 2007; accepted 23 September 2007 Available
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The book Decision in Philadelphia the Constitutional Convention if 1787 by Christopher and James Collier offers a unique look at the scribing of the Constitution and the events that not only surrounded it but led up to its creation. The authors take on the events and their creative writing style make the book and enjoyable and fact filled read on one of the country’s most important events. They begin with a historical look at the events that led up to the signing and a brief synopsis of the events
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Role of Age in Technology Adoption Decisions in Organizations Aashish Jagini University of Missouri Technology has become a vital and integral part of every organization. From multi-national corporations who maintain mainframe systems and databases to small businesses that own a single computer‚ technology plays a role. Technology has become indispensable because it has made its way into all the areas of an organization. Adoption of technology in an organization may influence performance
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Contents INTRODUCTION 4 DECISION MAKING 4 Programmed Decisions 4 Non-Programmed Decisions 5 THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MAKING DECISIONS 5 ELEMENTS OF THE DECISION SITUATION 6 - The Decision Maker 6 - Goals to be Served 6 - Relevant Alternatives 6 - Ordering of Alternatives 6 - Choice of Alternatives. 6 THE RATIONAL MODEL OF DECISION MAKING 8 Steps in the Decision Making process 8 Identifying an Existing Problem 9 Listing Alternative Solutions 10 Select the Most Beneficial Of These
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When you are making a decision there are six steps you want to follow they are; identifying and diagnosing the problem‚ generating alternative solutions‚ evaluating alternatives‚ making the choice‚ implementing the decision‚ and evaluating the decision. There are times in our lives when we have to make important decisions such as changing jobs‚ moving to a new state‚ buying a new house or going to school. For me this decision came a little over a year ago when I decided to go back to school and further
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Programmed decisions . Programmed decisions are made in routine‚ repetitive‚ well-structured situations with predetermined decision rules. These may be based on habit‚ or established policies‚ rules and procedures and stem from prior experience or technical knowledge about what works or does not work in a given situation. For example‚ organisations often have standardised routines for handling customer complaints or employee discipline. Decisions are programmed to the extent that they are repetitive
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10:35 AM Page 96 Chapter 4 DECISION ANALYSIS CONTENTS 4.1 PROBLEM FORMULATION Influence Diagrams Payoff Tables Decision Trees DECISION MAKING WITHOUT PROBABILITIES Optimistic Approach Conservative Approach Minimax Regret Approach DECISION MAKING WITH PROBABILITIES Expected Value of Perfect Information RISK ANALYSIS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS Risk Analysis Sensitivity Analysis DECISION ANALYSIS WITH SAMPLE INFORMATION An Influence Diagram A Decision Tree Decision Strategy Risk Profile Expected
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Pricing Decisions are decisions faced by top management and marketing managers. How much to charge for a product or service depends on a multitude of factors such as competition‚ cost‚ advertising‚ and sales promotion. Economic theory suggests that the best price for a product or service is the one that maximizes the difference between total revenue and total costs. However‚ in reality‚ the price charged is usually some form of cost-plus‚ which is later adjusted for market conditions and competition
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Mini Case - The MBA Decision 1. How does Ben’s age affect his decision to get an MBA? Ben’s age is a very important factor which can affect his decision to get an MBA degree. Firstly‚ Ben is now 28 years old and expects to work for 40 more years. So he has an expected work life of 68 years. So the earlier he gets an MBA‚ the better for him. For example: probably it won’t benefit him much if he decided to get an MBA at the age of 60. No one would hire him as an investment banker even if
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Decision making from cognitive or normative perspective can be defined as the process of selecting best logical choice from various available options and choices. Majority of decisions in business are normative as they are based on logical decision making. Dr. Yost describes decision making as a concept on a continuum of conscientiousness and depth of deliberations. On one end of spectrum is conscious‚ well thought of‚ rational decision making‚ in between “real world” bounded rationality and at
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