Decision-Making: Intelligence Phase Quiz

What are Simon's four phases of decision making?

What is the main advantage of understanding the concepts of rationality and bounded rationality in decision making?

What is the primary function of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in practice?

Why is it important to dissect DSS into its main concepts when building successful systems?

Which phase of decision making involves gathering and analyzing information?

What is the nature of models in decision making?

Which characteristic of decision making refers to the phenomenon where changes in the decision-making environment may occur continuously?

What is one area suffering most from fast decisions, as mentioned in the text?

According to Simon (1977), what is managerial decision making synonymous with?

What occurs when a system does not meet its established goals, yield predicted results, or work as planned?

Are problem solving and decision making different according to Simon's phases of the decision process?

Which discipline contributes a unique, valid view of how people make decisions?

What is the manner by which decision makers think and react to problems called?

Which type of models are iconic and scale models examples of?

What are the benefits of models mentioned in the text?

In small organizations, who are mainly responsible for decision making?

What does a model represent according to the text?

What is the difference between what people desire (or expect) and what is actually occurring?

What is the term used for the timely identification of opportunities being as important as the identification of problems?

What may improve the structuredness of a problem situation?

What is constructed, tested, and validated during the design phase of decision-making?

What describes the acceptability of a solution approach and reflects decision-making objectives?

Which type of models assume that humans are economic beings whose objective is to maximize the attainment of goals?

What type of models describe things as they are or as they are believed to be?

"Seeking to achieving a desired level of performance as opposed to the 'best'" is associated with which decision-making approach?

What helps in generating alternatives in most MSS situations?

"A statement of assumptions about the operating environment (variables) of a particular system at a given time" is known as:

"Includes the search, evaluation, and recommendation of an appropriate solution to the model" is associated with which phase of decision-making?

"Solving with a formula" is an example of which search approach in decision-making?

What is the main focus of the Implementation phase in decision-making?

Which technology resource is NOT mentioned as a support for the Intelligence Phase of decision-making?

In decision-making, what does the Design Phase primarily involve?

Which is NOT a resource mentioned for supporting the Choice Phase in decision-making?

What is emphasized as critical in dealing with unstructured/complex problems during the Design Phase of decision-making?

Which technology resource is NOT listed to support the Implementation Phase in decision-making?

What is an example of a new technology mentioned to support decision-making?

Which technology is NOT listed as part of the new technologies to support decision-making?

What is NOT a part of resources/technologies mentioned for supporting the Intelligence Phase in decision-making?

What type of problems require human experts, ES, KMS, brainstorming/GSS, OLAP, data/text mining during decision-making?

What is emphasized as enabling continuous scanning of external and internal information sources to identify problems and/or opportunities during the Intelligence Phase of decision-making?

What does the Choice Phase primarily involve in decision-making?

Enabling continuous scanning of external and internal information sources to identify problems and/or opportunities is a support for the Design Phase in decision-making.

The Choice Phase in decision-making primarily involves generating alternative courses of action and determining the criteria for choice.

The Implementation Phase primarily involves the timely identification of opportunities and explaining the justification to reduce resistance to change.

RFID and other wireless technologies are slower compared to faster computers and better algorithms in processing huge amounts of heterogeneous/distributed data.