Decision Support for Management

Name: Decision Support for Management
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ISBN: 9780133962680

ISBN-10: 0133962687

ISBN-13: 9780133962680

Edition: 1st 1996

Authors: Ralph H. Spraque, Hugh J. Watson

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For the decision support systems courses in departments of Management Information Systems, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Public Administration, and Management. Explores the variety and richness of support systems the wide range of users, problems, and technologies employed and illustrates how the concepts and principles have been applied in specific systems. Designed to be a primary text for understanding this continually developing field to help students and practitioners understand the principles and concepts that guide the development and use of these systems. The authors include the full range of systems and users, but with some extra emphasis on managers and their use…

Book details

List price: $227.80
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 490
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Hugh J. Watson was educated at Purdue University and Florida State University. Watson is the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration at the University of Georgia, the editor of the Journal of Data Warehousing, and a counseling editor for John Wiley & Sons' Computing and Information Processing series. He is considered a leading authority on executive information systems. Watson has produced over 120 pieces of writing including the books Building Executive Information Systems and Other Decision Support Applications and Decision Support in the Data Warehouse. He has also received the Society for Information Management Outstanding Award two times.




The Conceptual Foundation for DDS



DSS: Past, Present, and Future



The Information Executives Truly Need



Developing and Using Decision Support Applications



Management Involvement in Decision Support Systems



Determining Information Requirements for an EIS



Applying Adaptive Design to a Real Estate DSS



Decision Support for Train Dispatching



The Architecture for Decision Support Applications



Architecture for DSS



Data Base Requirements for Institutional and Ad Hoc DSS



Multidimensional Data Bases for DDS



A DSS for Vehicle Routing



Guidelines for Designing EIS Interfaces



Document-Based Decision Support



Intelligent Support Systems



Creating the Decision Support Environment



Organizational Strategies for Supporting DSS



DSS Software Selection



Executive Information Systems



The Management Information and Decision Support (MIDS) System at Lockheed-Georgia



A Framework for Developing Executive Information Systems



Including Soft Information in EIS



Group Support Systems



A Review of Groupware Products



Group Decision Support Systems



Brainstorming '90s Style



How Lotus Notes Supports Workgroups



Expert Systems



Expert Systems: The Next Challenge for Managers



An Expert System for Maritime Pilots



Choosing an Expert Systems Game Plan



CoverStory - Automated News Finding in Marketing



The Benefits of Decision Support Applications



The Benefits of Decision Support at Xerox, Quaker Oats, and Beneficial



Assessing EIS Benefits


Decision Support Bibliography


Index