Decision-making support systems: actual implementations, limits and requirements

necula, sabina-cristiana (2010): Decision-making support systems: actual implementations, limits and requirements. Published in: 15th IBIMA Conference on Knowledge Management and Innovation: A Business Competitive Edge Perspective PROCEEDING (6 November 2010): pp. 1501-1505.

Abstract

This paper tries to presents limits of the actual decision-support systems that stands at the origin of the unachieving an informed decision-making process.We discuss the requirements, actual implementations and limits of it based on two facts: the distinction between data and knowledge and the distinction between decision-support systems and knowledge-based systems.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: decision-support systems, knowledge, bounded rationality approach, creativity
• Subjects: M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M0 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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