In today's rapidly changing educational and business climate, organizational transformation has become a key area of development for many different and varied environments, both commercial and academic. This book addresses issues related to developing Decision Support Systems (DSS) which are sensitive and adaptable to different contexts and evolving technical and work environments. In addition to addressing the various cultural/social, organizational/individual, task/technology contexts of DSS, the book also anchors these discussions in a practical context, drawing on case studies to illustrate the theoretical dimensions stressed. This book includes the following issues: Frameworks for understanding the contexts and environments of decision support; Cases and issues in decision support and organizational transformation in context; An inter-disciplinary analysis of DSS, covering a wide variety of situations; and Real-world applications of DSS . It contains selected papers presented and discussed at the International Conference on Context-Sensitive Decision Support Systems, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Bled, Slovenia in July 1998. The book will prove invaluable to anyone working in information and decision support systems development, management, implementation and evaluation, as well as to researchers/practitioners in organizational analysis and development, management and business administration, sociology and psychology of organizations, human relations and human factors management.

This book will be bought by researchers and graduates students in Artificial Intelligence and management as well as practising managers and consultants interested in the application of IT and information systems in real business environment.

Decision Support Systems (DSS) are typically viewed as computerized aids for managerial decision making at the individual level. By contrast, this volume focuses on DSS for group and organizational decision making. The contributions are from academics and practitioners who are developing new concepts, techniques and software to support decision-related activities involving multiple participants. The book is in five sections. The first looks at the organizational setting of group decision support systems and experiences of various enterprises in their use. The second section is concerned with supporting negotiation processes, decision situations where the participants have conflicting goals. The third section deals with analysis and design issues in developing group/organizational DSS. Behavioral issues relating to the impact of the technology are examined in section four, while the fifth section discusses practical experiences with group decision rooms'.

The conceptual foundation for DSS; Developing and using DSS; The architecture for DSS; Creating the DSS environment; The evolving DSS domain; DSS application; DSS bibliography; Index.

This text provides step-by-step guidance to building an organizational decision support system (ODSS). It deals with building an ODSS from the basic needs assessment and project formation through the conceptual design, system implementation, maintenance and updating.

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