Chapter 8 Decision Support Systems Managers and Decision Making A decision refers to a choice made between alternatives. Why Managers Need the Support of Information Technology. It is very difficult to make good decisions without valid‚ timely and relevant information. Number of alternatives to be considered is increasing Many decisions are made under time pressure. Due to uncertainty in the decision environment‚ it is frequently necessary to conduct a sophisticated analysis
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Barry Young Individual Research Paper: The Ethical Implications of Cloud Computing on Society MGMT 505 Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Policy Spring 2013 Niki A. den Nieuwenboer Cloud Computing is a popular term for “enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction” (Brian‚ 2012). The concept of Cloud Computing was first developed in the 1960’s
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Legal and Ethical Implications for Classroom Management Grand Canyon University: EDU 536 April 24‚ 2013 Today’s classrooms are more dynamic than ever before. Educational needs of students are changing at breakneck speeds‚ along with the demands being placed on their teachers. There are associated legal and ethical implications that are evolving as rapidly as the technology that is driving a lot of the change. In order to have a chance to meet the needs of students and
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For this ESE support system‚ the person I decided to interview is Professor Teresa Paton. Professor Paton is a Professor at Southeastern University that works with students in the Pathway Educational program on Campus for students with disabilities. At the beginning of the interview she asked who knew what ESE stood for? A few students raised their hands explaining that ESE is the abbreviation that stands for exceptional student education. During the interview‚ Professor Paton was asked a variety
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Support Individual To Eat and Drink Approaching lunch time in my work place‚ getting all service user ready for lunch. As I was aware Mrs y recently had been referred to speech and language therapist for assessment due to swallowing difficulties so I ask the nurse in charge for access to Mrs y‚ care plan to see what changes have been made to her dietary requirements‚ Mrs y care plan is in kept in a secure cupboard in the duty room as required by the data protection act 1998 and embrace privacy
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Legal/Ethical issue 1 Life support‚ a 72 year old woman‚ was admitted to the Neurological Intensive Care Unit following a cerebral hemorrhage that left her with severe brain damage and ventilator.1 The husband disregarded the patients’ rights by refusing to abide by his wife’s wishes as stated in her living will The patient’s living will specified that she did not want to be on a ventilator support or other artificial life support in the event of a permanent unconscious condition or terminal condition
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Information Freedom: The Ethical Implications of SOPA The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a U.S. House of Representatives bill with the stated purpose‚ "To promote prosperity‚ creativity‚ entrepreneurship‚ and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property‚ and for other purposes." (1) SOPA proposes to accomplish those goals by allowing the U.S. Department of Justice and copyright owners to take action against websites thought to be facilitating copyright infringement. What brought SOPA into the
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The Ethical Dilemma of a Patient’s Right to Die Is it wrong to discontinue a ventilator even at the patient’s request‚ with the expectation that the patient will die? Health care providers encounter ethical dilemmas such as this one on a daily basis in hospital and long term care settings. Choosing to withdraw life support poses one of the most prominent dilemmas in bioethics. Health care clinicians‚ which includes physicians‚ advance practice nurses and registered nurses‚ must utilize moral
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Decision Support Systems Marek J. Druzdzel and Roger R. Flynn Decision Systems Laboratory School of Information Sciences and Intelligent Systems Program University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh‚ PA 15260 {marek‚flynn}@sis.pitt.edu http://www.sis.pitt.edu/∼dsl To appear in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science‚ Second Edition‚ Allen Kent (ed.)‚ New York: Marcel Dekker‚ Inc.‚ 2002 1 Contents Introduction Decisions and Decision Modeling Types of Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Assignment 4: Decision Support Systems Making decisions concerning complex systems (e.g.‚ the management of organizational operations‚ industrial processes‚ or investment portfolios; the command and control of military units; or the control of nuclear power plants) often strains our cognitive capabilities. Even though individual interactions among a system’s variables may be well understood‚ predicting how the system will react to an external manipulation such as a policy decision is often difficult
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