What is involved in providing decision support for global enterprises?
by Dan Power The theme for the upcoming 9th International Conference for AIS SIG DSS: the International Society for Decision Support Systems (ICDSS2007.org) is “Decision Support for Global Enterprises”. The conference will be held in Kolkata, India, January 2-4, 2007. Papers for the published conference book must be submitted by May 10, 2006 to info@icdss2007.org. Abstracts and papers for presentation should be submitted by September 18, 2006. Those of us involved with the conference are interested in leading edge decision support systems and interesting research related to the theme. The emphasis is on emerging enterprise decision making processes and DSS, new infrastructure for decision making in organizations and society, the role of Web technologies in decision making, and emerging theories and practices for Web-based knowledge management. When one hears the term global enterprise, companies like IBM, Microsoft, Coca Cola and Procter & Gamble come to mind. My local newspaper, The C
