Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources for Managers

For MIS specialists and nonspecialists alike, a comprehensive, readable, understandable guide to the concepts and applications of decision support systems.

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Decision support systems are interactive computer-based systems that help people use computer communications, data, documents, knowledge, and models to solve problems and make decisions. For managers who want to know more about such systems, Power (information systems and management, U. of Northern Iowa) provides a technical guide that examines their design, development, and implementation, with a focus on helping readers sense of a rapidly changing area of computing applications. Power supplies the framework needed for a general familiarity with current developments as well as an understanding of what's possible. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

DANIEL J. POWER is Professor of Information Systems and Management at the College of Business Administration, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. He holds a doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has developed decision support software and systems, and has examined the impacts of DSS on managers in his research studies. Power has published numerous book chapters and proceedings papers and has authored more than 20 articles for the important journals of his field. He also serves as Editor of DSSResources.com, the knowledge repository about computerized systems that support decision making.