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Which of the following are most likely to rely primarily on the drill-down functionality of BI for their decision-making needs?

A) IT developers
B) managers
C) operational employees
D) business analysts

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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The ________ is the leading methodology for understanding the most important information needed by a firm's executives.

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A well-designed ESS will allow management to

What is the business value of a DSS?

The first stage in Simon's decision-making process model is the design stage.

Business intelligence would be useful for analyzing and decision making in which of the following situations?

The concern that data values of an information source fall within a defined range reflects which quality dimension of information?

____________________ describe the following "Businesses must deal with both structured and unstructured data from many different sources,including big data.The data need to be integrated and organized so that they can be analyzed and used by human decision makers."

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You are an analyst for a firm that imports and distributes specialty oils and vinegars and your company wants you to evaluate their options for taking advantage of cutting edge business analytics.What are their choices? What will you recommend?

DSS are a special category of GIS.

__________________________ state that the actual behaviour of managers appears to be less systematic,more informal,less reflective,more reactive,and less well organized than the classical model would have us believe.

A geographic information system is a decision support system designed specifically to work with spatial information.

Middle management face primarily unstructured decisions.

As discussed in the chapter text,the three main reasons that investments in information technology do not always produce positive results are

The intelligence phase of decision making consists of discovering,identifying,and understanding the problems occurring in the organization.

Structured decision making is most prevalent at lower organizational levels.

What-if analysis works forward from known or assumed conditions.

Performance on each dimension is measured using _____________________,which are the measures proposed by senior management for understanding how well the firm is performing along any given dimension.

Since all the major league teams use sabermetrics in one way or another to guide their decisions,the A's no longer have the competitive edge they once enjoyed when they were the only ones with this knowledge.