Is there an information culture that encourages building Decision Support Systems?
Let’s assume there is such a phenomenon as an information culture. Culture refers to shared assumptions, beliefs and ideas of a group. Information culture would then refer to shared assumptions, beliefs and ideas about obtaining, processing, sharing and using information in decision-making and organizational management.Rick Tanler, who founded Information Advantage, identified four different information cultures. In a Decision Wire column titled Becoming the Competitor All Others Fear, Tanler stated The four information cultures are Spectator (observes changes within their market); Competitor (initiates change within their market); Predator (attacks market principles); and Information Anarchy (the dysfunctional information culture).Tanler noted in that same column that Almost every data warehouse is justified to senior management in terms of the competitive advantages that will accrue to the enterprise if better information is available to decision-makers. Tanler argued the Competitor
