Implementing Systems for Supporting Management Decisions: Concepts, methods and experiences

by Patrick Humphreys (Editor)

Introduction. Experimentation with Organisation Analyser, a tool for the study of decision making networks in organisations. A software process for management software systems. A management decision support system for allocating housing loans. Misues and nonuse of the past experiences revisited. The effective use of a decision support tool in the area of strategim marketing management. Information technology in hypointegrated communication support versus decision support. Individual and organizational perspectives on the impact of ESS in multinational organizations. User-centered DSS design and implementation. Co-decision within cooperative analysis, design and implementation. Using the Internet to implement support for distributed decision. A DSS design method based on organisational change. Change process a collective analysis and management procedure. Are your business and your IT strategy in phase? Executive information systems development in. Business reusable abstract constructs for business specification. System for preparing management a gas pipeline siting case study. Design and testing of a DSS to help reduce bias in judgemental forecasting. Designing and implementing DSS with system lessons learned from modeling a global system of mobile communication (GSM) market. Ethical imperatives in decision support systems design. Towards active management information. A case study of EIS development by an experienced EIS developer. Decision support in marketing. Process for managing project uncertainty with contingency planning. Implementation of information issues connected with revision of business processes in transition.

396 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 1996