Organizing for Decision Support System Support: The End-User Services Alternative.

Author List: Watson, Hugh J.; Carr, Houston H.;

Journal of Management Information Systems, 1987, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 83-95.

There are a number of organization structure alternatives for supporting decision support systems, and each alternative has its advantages and disadvantages. One emerging alternative, that of providing support through an end-user services group, is being successfully used by the Oglethorpe Power Corporation.

Keywords: Decision support systems (Dss); end- user computing.; organizing for DSS

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#113	0.331	support decision dss systems guidance process making environments decisional users features capabilities provide decision-making user paper findings systems.decision components computer-based
#248	0.263	computing end-user center support euc centers management provided users user services organizations end satisfaction applications article ibm step field policies
#207	0.067	design artifacts alternative method artifact generation approaches alternatives tool science generate set promising requirements evaluation problem designed incentives components addressing
#277	0.063	structure organization structures organizational centralized decentralized study organizations forms decentralization processing communication sharing cbis activities appropriate provide identify organizing communications
#43	0.061	architecture scheme soa distributed architectures layer discuss central difference coupled service-oriented advantages standard loosely table services classification layered included update