The new science of management decision.

Simon, Herbert A.

doi:10.1037/13978-000

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“…Information systems have an important role in this; namely, they are there to support individual decision-making. In fact, it is the work of Herbert Simon (Boland, 1987;Simon, 1960) which has persuaded so many people to assume the nature of managing to be problem solving through decision making. In Simon's words (1960, p. 27), "problem solving proceeds by erecting goals, detecting differences between present situation and goal, finding in memory or by search tools or processes that are relevant to reducing differences of these particular kinds, and applying these tools or processes.…”

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On the Idea of Organization Transformation: The IS/IT Design Challenge in Systems Thinking

Vat

2004

InSITE Conference

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This paper investigates the idea of organization transformation appropriate to the advent of information technologies (IT). Specifically, we describe a traceable framework of transformation, which accommodates the shift of information system (IS) support from automating to informating to knowledging. The paper intends to clarify the context of IT/IS-based organization transformation through the contextualization of IS support and its relation to organizational design. This is done by elaborating the design issue of IS support that help structure and facilitate knowledge interconnectivity, through the exposition of the social processes in which, in a specific organizational context, a particular group of people can conceptualize their world and hence the purposeful action they wish to undertake. That provides the basis for ascertaining what information support is needed by those who undertake that action. Only then does it become appropriate to ask how modern IT can help to provide that support. We conclude by reiterating the challenge of designing IS's as meaning attribution systems in which people select certain resources out of the mass potentially available and get them processed by means of IT, to make them meaningful in order to support their purposeful actions.

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On the Idea of Organization Transformation: The IS/IT Design Challenge in Systems Thinking

Vat

2004

InSITE Conference

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“…These qualities of the case study method, in and of themselves, provide substantial support for the use of the method in the classroom, with the quality of "inducing motivation" standing out in particular. In terms of enhancing WTC through team building, however, case studies are especially relevant due to their employment of the rational-analytical model of cognitive operations, a model first proposed by Dewey (1933) and later expanded upon by Simon (1960) and Mintzberg, Raisinghani and Theoret (1976). The rational-analytical model, as implemented in the case study method, leads students through a systematic process: (1) definition of a problem, (2) analysis of possible reasons for the problem,…”

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Enhancing Willingness to Communicate through Team Building: A Marriage of Theory and Practice

Harper¹

2016

SELT

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“…He suggested a model including three main phases: intelligence, design, and choice (I.D.C. model) [22]. Intelligence deals with investigating an environment for conditions that call for decisions.…”

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Decision-Making Ontology for Information System Engineering

Kornyshova

Deneckère

2010

Conceptual Modeling – ER 2010

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Abstract. Information Systems (IS) engineering (ISE) processes contain steps where decisions must be made. Moreover, the growing role of IS in organizations involves requirements for ISE such as quality, cost and time. Considering these aspects implies that the number of researches dealing with decision-making (DM) in ISE increasingly grows. As DM becomes widespread in the ISE field, it is necessary to build a representation, shared between researchers and practitioners, of DM concepts and their relations with DM problems in ISE. In this paper, we present a DM ontology aimed at formalizing DM knowledge. Its goal is to enhance DM and to support DM activities in ISE. This ontology is illustrated within the requirements engineering field.

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The new science of management decision.

Cited by 1,996 publications

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On the Idea of Organization Transformation: The IS/IT Design Challenge in Systems Thinking

On the Idea of Organization Transformation: The IS/IT Design Challenge in Systems Thinking

Enhancing Willingness to Communicate through Team Building: A Marriage of Theory and Practice

Decision-Making Ontology for Information System Engineering

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