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Process to Build an Efficient Decision Support System
University of Borås, School of Business and IT.
University of Borås, School of Business and IT.
2012 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year))Student thesis
Abstract [en]

Decision support systems will be an asset dealing with the complexity involved in many decision situations for companies, organizations and societies by integrating different aspects into a holistic pattern. That creates a close relationship to systems science since systems thinking promote holism as a profitable way to handle complexity. The ideal decision support system should not be used to make automatic decisions but to assist a human being in the decision process. That process is sometimes described as a model consisting of the phases, intelligence, design and choice. Intelligence is needed to understand the situation and find the information that is needed to continue the process. Design means designing different alternatives and in the last phase, choice, the alternatives are evaluated and the best alternative is chosen. A good decision support system should give the user assistance through the whole process. The main purpose of our research is identifying the process of building an efficient Decision Support System. The target groups are the people who are working with multinational companies that are specialized in constructing and delivering decision support systems to end users. The number of target companies involved in this study is only two and is limited Indian Multinational companies. The theoretical study helps in identifying the basic characteristics of a decision support system, exploring the types of decision support systems used in current organizations, resulting if there is any particular standard for constructing DSS today and signifying approach for constructing a user friendly decision support system by analyzing the existing literature related to DSS. At the same time, empirical study advances the research problem from a practical angle. The conclusion for this research is a comprehensive report in relation to the varieties of Decision Support Systems used in today’s organizations, qualities that a decision support system ought to possess and suggested process to be implemented for building an efficient decision support system.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Borås/School of Business and IT , 2012.
Series
Magisteruppsats ; 2011MAGI25
Keywords [en]
decision support systems, decision making, organizations, business intelligence, expert systems
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Engineering and Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16405Local ID: 2320/10633OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-16405DiVA, id: diva2:1308292
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Program: Magisterutbildning i informatikAvailable from: 2019-04-30 Created: 2019-04-30

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