Is DSS or Decision Support a core concept in Information Systems?
This Ask Dan! question was prompted by an email to the ISWorld mailing list in Winter 2001. The email announced that the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Board of Directors decided to create Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in broadly defined IS research areas. The announcement noted that many other professional associations had that type of organizing structure.At about the same time that AIS was requesting proposals for SIGs, I read Frederic Adam and Brian Fitzgerald’s paper titled The status of the IS field: historical perspective and practical orientation in Information Research, vol. 5, no. 4, July 2000. They concluded IS researchers do not seem to have succeeded in developing a core of concepts and definitions to enable the accumulation of knowledge in IS and to significantly contribute to the improvement of the business application of information systems. The action by AIS can help remedy the problem identified by Adam and Fitzgerald and others. I hope special interest gr
