Monday, September 22, 2008

BLOG POST FINAL QUESTION # 2

1. Describe or define DSS

The DSS is about the specific class of computerized and they support their business, decision making and organization. Aside from that, that DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision makers compile useful information from raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to identify and solve their problems and make has decisions

2.Distinguish DSS from MIS
DSS- it means that is to Assist Managers with their decision process in semi-structured tasks Support, rather than replace managerial judgment And they also improve their effectiveness of decision making rather than its efficiency while Management Information Systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization
3.Illustrate (give examples) how DSS can improve company's competitive advantage and organizational performance.

For me, through DSS can improve company’s In terms, competitive advantage and organizational performance has need to widespread to use the computer technology has changed the company do business so that they are importance to do that things. And also, the Decision support systems can potentially help a firm create a cost advantage. Decision support systems can provide many benefits including improving personal efficiency and reducing staff needs, expediting problem solving and increasing organizational control. Managers who want to create a cost advantage should search for situations where decision processes seem slow or tedious and where problems reoccur or solutions are delayed or unsatisfactory
For example, information technology has altered the bargaining relationships between companies and their suppliers, channels and buyers. Today it is easy for information systems to cross company boundaries.
.Reference

Power, D.J. A Brief History of Decision Support Systems DSSResources.COM, World Wide Web, version 2.8, May 31, 2003.^ Keen, P. G. W. (1978). Decision support systems: an organizational perspective. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 0-201-03667-3b O’Brien, J (1999). Management Information Systems – Managing Information Technology in the Internetworked Enterprise (in English). Boston: Irwin McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0071123733. ^ Lee, AS (2001). "Editor’s Comments". MIS Quarterly 25 (1):
iii-vii.
Kettinger, W., Grover, V., Guha, S., and Segars, A., “Strategic Information Systems Revisited,” MIS Quarterly, 1994, pp. 31-55.
Porter, M. E. and V. E. Millar, “How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage,” Harvard Business Review, July-August, 1985.
Porter, M. E., "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy," Harvard Business Review, March-April, 1979

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