Decision science offers powerful insights and techniques that help people make better decisions to improve business and society. This new volume brings together the peer-reviewed papers that have been chosen as the "best of the best" by the field's leading organization, the Decision Sciences Institute. These papers, authored by respected decision science researchers and academics from around the world, will be presented at DSI's 45th Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida in November 2014. The first book of papers ever assembled by DSI, this volume describes recent methods and approaches in the decision sciences, with a special focus on how accelerating technological innovation is driving change in the ways organizations and individuals make decisions. These papers offer actionable insights for decision-makers of all kinds, in business, public policy, non-profit organizations, and beyond. They also point to new research directions for academic researchers in decision science worldwide.

NEW ADVANCES IN THE SCIENCE OF DECISION MAKING:

Practical and relevant research from DSI, the field's leading organization



14 OUTSTANDING PAPERS APPLYING RIGOROUS RESEARCH METHODS TO IMPORTANT SOCIETAL AND BUSINESS DECISION ENVIRONMENTS
NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN STRATEGY, TACTICS, AND OPERATIONS
FOR ALL DECISION MAKERS, AND ALL DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHERS AND STUDENTS

More than 1,000 papers were submitted to the Decision Science Institute's 2015 annual conference. This book presents the 14 papers chosen as most insightful and useful.



This peer-reviewed research addresses a richly diverse set of business topics, illuminating opportunities to improve decision making at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Spanning analytics, information systems and technology, supply chain operations management, and other disciplines, these papers identify multiple opportunities for immediate and long-term performance improvement.



The authors address challenges ranging from talent management to lean transformation, mobile app marketing to corporate ethics, driving change to predicting stock prices. Their work reflects both the intellectual vibrancy of the discipline of decision science and its immense practical value.



Decision sciences research leads to improved decision outcomes. This volume brings together peer-reviewed papers chosen as "best of the best" by the field's leading organization, the Decision Sciences Institute.



Authored by respected researchers worldwide, these papers were presented at DSI's 46th Annual Meeting in Seattle. They describe new methods and approaches in the decision sciences, with a special focus on translating theoretical impact into practical relevance to improve decision making within business, public policy, non-profit organizations, and beyond.



Assess willingness to learn ERP systems based on knowledge update and other factors
Exploit application integration to improve ERP's value after implementation
Discover how mobile users decide whether to search for and adopt a new app
Quantify links between absenteeism and hostile environment/sexual harassment
Assess correlations between employee development and worker outcomes
Explore perceptions of change, intentions to leave, and the role of cynicism
Promote lean transformation by evolving HR performance management systems
Understand how links between corporate ethical values and firm performance are mediated
Bring a global sourcing perspective to issues of ethical consumption
Improve quality by choosing practices with the best cultural fit
Use Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Bayesian Networks (BN) to predict diabetes
Apply a comprehensive empirical framework for assessing patient care quality
Promote sharing of clinical knowledge among a practice group's physicians
Forecast variable impacts in S&P 500 equity prices

Today, business success depends on making great decisions – and making them fast. Leading organisations apply sophisticated business analytics tools and technologies to evaluate vast amounts of data, glean new insights, and increase both the speed and quality of decision making.

 

In this collection, the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) has put together its best recent research on using business analytics to make better decisions. DSI has compiled award-winning and award-nominated contributions from its most recent conferences: papers that illuminate exceptionally high-value applications and research on analytics for decision-making. These papers have appeared in no other DSI collection. Explore them here, and you’ll discover powerful new opportunities for competitive advantage through analytics.

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