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Chapter 12: Enhanced Decision Making Flashcards

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Structured Decisions

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  • repetitive and routine
  • definitive handling procedures
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Unstructured Decisions

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  • judgment, evaluation, insight
  • novel, important, nonroutine
  • no set procedure
  • more complex
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Semistructured Decisions

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only part of the problem has a definite solution with procedure

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Senior Management

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many unstructured decisions

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Middle Management

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semistructured decisions

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Operational, Rank, File Employees

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Structured Decisions

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4 Steps Decision Making

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1) Intelligence: discovering and identifying the problem
2) Design: explore decisions
3) Choice: choose solution alternative
4) Implementation: make chosen alternative work and monitor solution

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Operational Control

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executing specific tasks efficiently and effectively

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Management Control

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Acquiring resources efficicently in accomplishing organizations goals

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Strategic Planning

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long-range goals and policies for growth and resource allocation

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Managerial Roles

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expectations of activities that managers should perform. in org (interpersonal, informational, decisional)

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Classic Model of Management

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control work of other, decide things

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Contemporary Behavioral Model of Management

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  • less systemic, more informal, less organized
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5 Attributes that Differ from Classical Model

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1) perform work and unrelenting pace
2) activities are fragmented
3) managers prefer specific necessary info
4) oral communication preferred
5) high priority given to maintaining diverse and complex contacts

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Interpersonal Roles

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-Figurehead (represent company to world, symbolic)
- Leader (motivate, counsel)
- Liaison (maintain network outside org)

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Informational Roles

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  • nerve center of org
  • receive concrete, up-to-date info
  • redistributing info
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Decisional Roles

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  • entrepreneurs –> initiate new activities
  • handling disturbances
  • resource allocator
  • negotiator (pivotal role in shaping direction + performance)
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3 Reasons Info Systems Might not alwasy work

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1) Info quality
2) management filters
3) org. culture

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Info quality

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  • high-quality decisions require high-quality info
    valid, consistent, accurate
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Management Filters

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  • managers absorb through filters that make sense to them
  • biases
  • can be feelings based
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Organizational Culture

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  • bureaucracies with limited capabilities
  • forces within org resistant to change
  • decisions take balancing various groups, not best decision
  • ignore poor performance until threatened
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High-Velocity Automated Decision Making

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  • humans eliminated – too slow
  • software algorithm
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Business Intelligence

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infrastructure for collecting, storing, analyzing data produced by business

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Business Analytics

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tools and techniques for analyzing data

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Business Intelligence Vendors

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create intelligence and analytics, purchased by firm

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environments (6 elements)

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1) data from bus envi: organized and integrated to be analyzed
2) business intelligence infrastructure: powerful database system or data warehouse
3) bus analytics toolset: software tools to analyze and predict reports
4) managerial users and methods: oversight to focus attention
5) delivery platform: hard/software tools to integrate delivery info
6) user interface: data vis tools delivering report

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Predictive Analysis

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use variety of data, techniques to predict future trends and behaviors
- incorporated into numerous bus. intell. apps for sales, mkt, etc

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Big Data Analysis

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massive datasets collected from social media, online, and customer data (help create real-time personalization)

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Operational Intelligence and Analytics

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  • business activities monitoring
  • collection and use of data generated by sensors
  • IOT
  • software enables companies to analyze big data
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Internet of Things

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creating huge streams of data from web , activities etc

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Data Visualization and Visual Analytics Tools

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help users see patterns and relationships that would be difficult in a list

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Location Analysis

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gain insight from location component of data

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Geographic Info System (GIS)

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ties location data to maps

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Decisional Support for Operations and Middle Management

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  • typically charged with monitoring key aspects of business (machine downtime, hrly pay)
  • support for semistructured decisions –> super -users, sensitivity analysis
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Super-Users (op/middle mgmt)

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create own reports, been business analytics
- Decision Support System (DSS)

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Sensitivity Analysis (op/middle mgmt)

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what if questions are asked repeatedly to predict range of outcomes when 1 or more variables are changed multiple times

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Decision Support: Senior Management

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  • help executives focus on important performance info
  • balanced scorecared method
    measures outcomes on 4 dimensions
  • financial, business processes, customer, learning and growth
  • key performance indicators (KPIs0 measure each dimension
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Group Decision Support System

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  • interactive system to facilitate solution to unstructured problems
  • specialized hard/software (projector_
  • may require facilitation
  • enables an increase in meeting size and productivity
  • collaboration

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