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Keep Emotion Out of Decision Making: Keep Emotion Out of Decision MakingPrediction Markets and Decision SupportAs noted, rivalry, time pressure and being in the spotlight can lead to decision disasters (or opportunities for exploitation depending on what side of the negotiating table you are sitting on). Leveraging prediction markets as a tool for decision support...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, prediction market, decision support, acquisition decision, decision-making; Discussion threads 2008-05-10
Aetna's Ron Williams Speaks -- And Actually Says Something: This Fortune interview with Aetna CEO Ron Williams is a few days old, but as it just popped up in my RSS reader, it is, as they say, new to me. Since it's pretty rare to see someone like Williams candidly discuss the health-plan business, its problems and some intriguing...; Tags: Physician, Decision Support, Aetna Inc., Health Care, Dermatologist, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Protecting the Public Health Through Knowledge: National Institutes of Health: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is one of eight agencies of the Public Health Service and part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH decided that, to meet its users' need for easy access to integrated business information, it needed outside help to bring a data...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Business intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Vertical industries, Databases, BearingPoint Inc., public health, data warehouse, decision support system, decision support, health care, decision-making, agency, knowledge; Case studies
EPM: Why It's the Next Big Thing: Senior managers at enterprises worldwide have always had a vision of an all-encompassing business information system that manages day-to-day business processes while providing the analytic insight necessary to make timely, informed, proactive business decisions. Many implemented ERP applications to achieve that goal, but these applications had little, if any, decision...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, BetterManagement.com, decision support, supply chain, ERP, vision, business process; White papers
Operation and Maintenance decision support: Companies that automate the process of diagnosing faults and performance degradation in equipment can lower costs and increase profits by increasing the life-cycle of critical components. Decision support technologies, such as automated diagnostics and on-line condition monitoring, can translate years of operations and maintenance engineering experience and fundamental physical principles...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Battelle Memorial Institute, decision support, advisor, monitoring, performance; Case studies

decision support Consultant: The Decision Support Consultant job description template includes the following job summary: Under the direction of decision support manager: Consults with company departments to identify areas of opportunity for computer, communication, and office automation systems. Recommends solutions and assists in implementation; Advises clients in accurately planning and justifying their computer,...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, decision support, client system, consultant, job, survey, computer; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Representing Uncertainty In decision support: There are more than 20 measures of uncertainty and many modeling paradigms. The research question is, "How do we know which is the right choice in an OR/MS situation?" The author's talk listed some of these choices and pointed to a background paper and bibliography. Here the author summarizes this...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, University of Colorado, decision support, modeling; White papers 2007-03-20
Closed-Loop Adaptive decision support Based On Automated Trust Assessment: This paper argues that it is important to study issues concerning trust and reliance when developing systems that are intended to augment cognition. Operators often under-rely on the help of a support system that provides advice or that performs certain cognitive tasks autonomously. The decision to rely on support seems...; Tags: decision support; White papers 2007-02-16
A decision support Tool To Optimize Scheduling Of IT Changes: Change management is one of the most critical processes in IT management. Some of the reasons are the sheer number of changes and the difficulty of evaluating the impact of changes on the IT services being provided. Through carrying out a survey with IT managers and practitioners, the authors have...; Tags: Service level management, Leadership, change management, SLA, decision support, IT administration, IT services, information technology, survey, window, financial; White papers 2007-01-14
Market Dynamics For decision support In Marketing: This paper deals with issues related to system dynamics modelling of market structures from a company's viewpoint. It is focused not only on 'Traditional' system dynamics approach, but also on broader perspective - overcoming far too high generality of known SD market models, better intelligibility for marketing managers (using familiar...; Tags: marketing research, marketing, decision support, SD card, technique; White papers 2006-08-16
Value-Based Argumentation For Democratic decision support: This paper discusses the integration of two systems that are based on a specific theory of argumentation: the first, an existing web-based discussion forum; the second, a method to enable autonomous software agents to perform practical reasoning based upon their subscription to social values. It shows how the output from...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, theory, decision support, agent, analysis, computer, Web, software; White papers 2006-06-23
Innovative Asset Management: Properly designed decision support environments encourage proactive and objective decision making. The work presented in this paper inquires into developing a decision support environment and a tool to facilitate objective decision making in dealing with road traffic noise. In this paper, the proposed decision support framework is presented in the...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, RMIT University, decision support, decision-making, asset management, modeling, asset, database, tool; White papers 2006-06-14
A Framework For Developing A Knowledge-Based decision support System For Management Of Variation Orders: This paper describes the framework for developing a Knowledge-Based Decision Support System (KBDSS) for making more informed decisions for managing variation orders in institutional buildings. The KBDSS framework consists of two main components, i.e., a knowledge base and a decision support shell. The database will be developed through collecting data...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, decision support, shell, knowledge base, knowledge, database, technique, survey; White papers 2006-05-10
The Application Of A Computerized Financial Control System For The decision support Of Target Cost Contracts: This paper reports a study of the application of a computerized financial control system on a target cost contract for the development of a cable car construction project in Hong Kong. The author is one of the key system designers supplied by the consultancy services of the Hong Kong Polytechnic...; Tags: Databases, Hong Kong, decision support, data mining, database, financial; White papers 2006-05-01
Business Intelligence Systems For decision support: Concepts, Processes And Practice: Business intelligence is a relatively new area that has primarily been driven by business and IT vendors. Most of the business intelligence literature has come from within the IT industry, and there has been very little academic research within the area. This paper provides a conceptual overview of business intelligence...; Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Monash University, business intelligence system, business intelligence, decision support system, decision support, Web, information technology; White papers 2006-03-20
Towards Agent-Based Scenario Development For Strategic decision support: Scenario planning is a method for learning about the future by understanding the nature and impact of the most un-certain and important driving forces affecting that future. However, most scenarios, being mostly stories, lack validation, dynamism and fail to acknowledge all relations between actors, activities and resources. This paper proposes...; Tags: Real estate, Utrecht University, agent, stock; White papers 2006-03-09
A decision support Framework For Flexible System Design: In this paper a decision support framework is presented for the design of flexible engineering systems. The framework draws on concepts from multi-objective optimization, consumer choice theory, and utility theory. The framework supports the necessary decisions in the design of flexible engineering systems or systems that can change their functionality...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, decision support, theory, performance; White papers 2006-01-01
Public decision support - Using A DSS To Increase Democratic Transparency: A case study is presented in which a decision support method (ADL) was employed by a local government in order to guide and aid decisions on three complicated and politically infected issues which had remained unresolved for many years. The research inquiry was whether a well-defined and openly accessible method...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, decision support, decision support system; White papers 2005-11-10
IRI Brings Next Generation of Analytics for CPG: Information Resources, Inc., a pioneer in market research and decision support software for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry, recently held its annual Reinventing CPG Summit in San Francisco. IRI executives asserted that CPG manufacturers and retailers need to collaborate and adapt to the new demands of consumers who will...; Tags: Retail, Tools & Techniques, Montgomery Research Inc., decision support, retail company, analytics, market research, industry, software; White papers 2005-09-13
Information Sharing And decision support For C(I)IP: This paper argues the need for the establishment of a common technical and organizational framework for the representation and controlled exchange of georeferenced data among critical infrastructure operators and other interested parties, including national and regional governments and governmental agencies. Using a standards-based platform for information sharing and fine-grained and...; Tags: IEEE, decision support, access control, C, agency, IP; White papers 2005-08-30