Ch12-Supporting Decisions and Processes Flashcards
What is the purpose of the intelligence phase in decision making?
A: Its purpose is to examine environment of an organisation to understand the conditions tat require a decision.
What is the design phase in decision making?
A: It means defining criteria, generating alternatives, and evaluating correlation between alternatives and criteria.
What is the model base in a Decision Support System?
A: It means a system includes statistical and mathematical model that enables decision support systems to analyse information.
What are the roles of the managerial designer, technical designer, and model builder in a Decision Support System?
managerial designer :is define issues in designing and using DSS system.
technical designer : to address problems from file structure,data storage ,etc.
model builder :to supply information on what model does,what data inputs it accepts,and how to explain the model output
What are Executive Information Systems (EIS)?
And what its components?
A: It is an interactive information system that allows executives access to internal and enteral data easily,so that they can make use in spotting trends, making forecasts and conducting analyses,include “drill down” features & digital dashboard
Components:3 module(administrative,builder runtime)
What is the purpose of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)? How does GIS support location-related decision making?
A: Capture,store,process and analyse data for providing infos to location-related decision making. It uses spatial and non-spatial data for storing coordinates of complex geographic objects.
Interactive
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What are collaboration systems or software used for?
1.To assist teams in communicate collaborate and coordinate
2. providing access to shared environment and information to support decision maker
🔑 Key Concepts:______________________________ are not quite as well-defined by standard operating
procedures, but they include a ________________ aspect that benefits from _____________________, ______________________, and ___________________________.
1.Semistructured decisions
2. structured
3. information retrieval
4. analytical models
5.information systems technology
🔑 Key Concepts: Define unstructured decisions.
(Whose role more important
A: It means decision making do not rely on standard operating procedure ,typically one time decision. Decision maker’s intuition >information technology support
🔑What is the definition of DSS?
An interactive info system to support decision makers at all levels within an organisation by combining human element, hardware, software, data, and models.
