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Article: An Architecture for Organizational Decision Support Systems (ODSS) That Utilizes a Model Coordination Subsystem.(Industry Trend or Event)
- Article from:
- Journal of End User Computing
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Organizational Decision Support Systems (ODSS) aim to support organizational decision-making that cuts across functional boundaries in the organization. As opposed to the conventional top-down approach to ODSS development, this research views integration of end-user-developed, organization-wide functional decision support systems as a viable approach for the development of an ODSS. First, this research examines coordination issues of those individual DSSs when they participate in organizational decision making as constituents of an ODSS. The coordination issues are discussed from the perspective of cycle time and quality of the organizational decision outcomes that the ...