What are examples of decision support systems in global enterprises?
Dan Power Editor, DSSResources.COM This Ask Dan! continues the discussion of decision support in global enterprises (see DSS News of January 29, 2006 and March 12, 2006). As noted previously, you can discuss this topic and other leading-edge DSS issues at ICDSS2007 (ICDSS2007.org) and please consider submitting a relevant paper for the conference book to info@icdss2007.org by May 10, 2006. A global enterprise has significant operations in multiple nation states and often in countries on different continents that need to be coordinated and cooperatively managed. A global enterprise can not function without sophisticated telecommnications and information technology, BUT the amount and sophistication of decision support varies widely. As these enterprises grow and prosper they are however likely to innovate and rapidly adopt sophisticated DSS technologies that emerge. The examples in this column will therefore focus on leading edge, publicly disclosed examples of DSS in global enterprises
