Group Decision Support Systems for Effective Decision Making: A Guide for MIS Practitioners and End Users
Written primarily for information systems managers, systems analysts, and end users who interface with them, this volume explores the group approach to decision support systems. As Thierauf points out, group decision making enhances the effectiveness of overall organizational decision making by eliminating some of the shortcomings—particularly the potential for uncorrected error—of individual decision making. When the collective expertise of the group is combined with the objective findings from a computerized mode of operation designed to help the decision making process, group decision support systems are the result. Thierauf explains the principles of group decision support systems, demonstrates their practical applications, and describes methods that can be used to design effective group decision support systems.

The book begins by presenting the underlying framework for group decision support systems and examining the characteristics of decision making in the group environment. There follows two chapters which offer a comprehensive treatment of the hardware and software necessary and one devoted to work redesign and the development of group decision support systems. The final section addresses the applications of group decision support systems to strategic planning, marketing, manufacturing, accounting, and personnel. Numerous figures illustrate points made in the text. An important contribution to the MIS literature, this book both delineates the need for more widespread use of group decision support systems and clearly explains how to implement such systems in every area of business operations.

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Group Decision Support Systems for Effective Decision Making: A Guide for MIS Practitioners and End Users
Written primarily for information systems managers, systems analysts, and end users who interface with them, this volume explores the group approach to decision support systems. As Thierauf points out, group decision making enhances the effectiveness of overall organizational decision making by eliminating some of the shortcomings—particularly the potential for uncorrected error—of individual decision making. When the collective expertise of the group is combined with the objective findings from a computerized mode of operation designed to help the decision making process, group decision support systems are the result. Thierauf explains the principles of group decision support systems, demonstrates their practical applications, and describes methods that can be used to design effective group decision support systems.

The book begins by presenting the underlying framework for group decision support systems and examining the characteristics of decision making in the group environment. There follows two chapters which offer a comprehensive treatment of the hardware and software necessary and one devoted to work redesign and the development of group decision support systems. The final section addresses the applications of group decision support systems to strategic planning, marketing, manufacturing, accounting, and personnel. Numerous figures illustrate points made in the text. An important contribution to the MIS literature, this book both delineates the need for more widespread use of group decision support systems and clearly explains how to implement such systems in every area of business operations.

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Group Decision Support Systems for Effective Decision Making: A Guide for MIS Practitioners and End Users

Group Decision Support Systems for Effective Decision Making: A Guide for MIS Practitioners and End Users

by Robert J. Thierauf
Group Decision Support Systems for Effective Decision Making: A Guide for MIS Practitioners and End Users

Group Decision Support Systems for Effective Decision Making: A Guide for MIS Practitioners and End Users

by Robert J. Thierauf

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Written primarily for information systems managers, systems analysts, and end users who interface with them, this volume explores the group approach to decision support systems. As Thierauf points out, group decision making enhances the effectiveness of overall organizational decision making by eliminating some of the shortcomings—particularly the potential for uncorrected error—of individual decision making. When the collective expertise of the group is combined with the objective findings from a computerized mode of operation designed to help the decision making process, group decision support systems are the result. Thierauf explains the principles of group decision support systems, demonstrates their practical applications, and describes methods that can be used to design effective group decision support systems.

The book begins by presenting the underlying framework for group decision support systems and examining the characteristics of decision making in the group environment. There follows two chapters which offer a comprehensive treatment of the hardware and software necessary and one devoted to work redesign and the development of group decision support systems. The final section addresses the applications of group decision support systems to strategic planning, marketing, manufacturing, accounting, and personnel. Numerous figures illustrate points made in the text. An important contribution to the MIS literature, this book both delineates the need for more widespread use of group decision support systems and clearly explains how to implement such systems in every area of business operations.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780899304090
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/26/1989
Series: Gerontology; 10
Pages: 321
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

ROBERT J. THIERAUF is Professor of Information and Decision Sciences at Xavier University. His 21 earlier publications include A Problem-Finding Approach to Effective Corporate Planning, Effective Information Centers: Guidelines for MIS and IC Managers, and New Directions in MIS Management: Guidelines for the 1990s, all published by Quorum Books.

Table of Contents

Preface
An Underlying Framework for Group Decision Support Systems
An Introduction to Group Decision Support Systems and Their Essential Characteristics
A Framework for Group Decision Support Systems
Decision Making in a GDSS Environment
Hardware and Software Underlying Group Decision Support Systems
Hardware and Data Communications in a GDSS Environment
Software and Data Bases in a GDSS Environment
Building of Group Decision Support Systems
Work Redesign and Development of Group Decision Support Systems
Applications of Group Decision Support Systems
Strategic Planning in a GDSS Environment
Marketing in a GDSS Environment
Manufacturing in a GDSS Environment
Accounting in a GDSS Environment
Personnel in a GDSS Environment
Bibliography
Index

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