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Information Systems Program

Business Intelligence Concepts,


Tools, and Applications
Week 1: Decision Making and Decision Support Systems
Lesson 1: Overview of Decision Making
Overview of Decision Making
• Learning Objectives
– Identify role of computerized support for decision making and
explain its importance
– List the different types of decisions managers face, and the process
through which they make a decision.

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Business Pressures–Responses–Support
Model

From SHARDA, RAMESH; DELEN, DURSUN; TURBAN, EFRAIM, BUSINESS 3


INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: SYSTEMS FOR DECISION SUPPORT, 10th
Edition, © 2015. Used by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., New York, NY.
All Rights Reserved.

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Decision Making
• Is a process of
– choosing among two or more alternative courses of action for the
purpose of attaining one or more goals.
• It is influenced by
– behavioral and scientific disciplines.

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Managerial Roles
• Interpersonal roles
– Figurehead
– Leader
– Liaison
• Informational roles
– Monitor
– Disseminator
– Spokesman
• Decisional roles
– Entrepreneur
– Disturbance handler
– Resource locator
– Negotiator

Sources: (1) Compiled from H. A. Mintzberg, The Nature of Managerial Work. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 5
NJ, 1980; and (2) H. A. Mintzberg, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning. The Free Press, New York, 1993.

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Managerial Responsibilities
• Planning
• Organizing
• Commanding
• Controlling
• Coordinating

From SHARDA, RAMESH; DELEN, DURSUN; TURBAN, EFRAIM, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE


AND ANALYTICS: SYSTEMS FOR DECISION SUPPORT, 10th Edition, © 2015. Used by 6
permission of Pearson Education, Inc., New York, NY. All Rights Reserved.

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Decision Making Steps
• Define the problem
• Construct a model
• Identify & Evaluate possible solutions
• Compare, choose, and recommend a potential solution to
the problem

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Decisions Making Scenarios
• Structured Decisions
– established situation, programmable decision, situation fully
understood, routine, specialized mfg. process
• Unstructured Decisions
– emergent situation, creative decision, situation unclear, one-shot,
general processes
• Semi-structured decisions
– have some structured elements and some unstructured elements

From SHARDA, RAMESH; DELEN, DURSUN; TURBAN, EFRAIM, BUSINESS


INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: SYSTEMS FOR DECISION SUPPORT, 10th 8
Edition, © 2015. Used by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., New York, NY. All
Rights Reserved.

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Decision Making
Constraints & Complexities
• Evaluating what-if scenarios
• Experimentation with a real system
• Changes in the decision-making environment may occur
continuously
• Time pressure on the decision maker
• Analyzing a problem takes time/money
• Insufficient or too much information
• Accuracy versus speed
• Effectiveness versus efficiency
From SHARDA, RAMESH; DELEN, DURSUN; TURBAN, EFRAIM, BUSINESS
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INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: SYSTEMS FOR DECISION SUPPORT, 10th
Edition, © 2015. Used by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., New York, NY. All
Rights Reserved.

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Decision Making Support
• Group communication and collaboration
• Improved data management
• Giant data warehouses and big data
• Analytical support
• Overcoming cognitive limits in information processing and
storage
• Knowledge management
• The ability to access information anywhere, anytime

From SHARDA, RAMESH; DELEN, DURSUN; TURBAN, EFRAIM, BUSINESS


INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: SYSTEMS FOR DECISION SUPPORT, 10th 10
Edition, © 2015. Used by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., New York, NY. All
Rights Reserved.

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