1. After reviewing Managerial Support Systems, would using a decision support system in a business guarantee a better decision? What makes a good decision? Explain your answers.
2. Artificial Intelligence topics include Expert Systems, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms. Do you think that companies can really use artificial intelligence to make a good business decision? Why or why not? Are there ethical concerns here? How about ethical concerns for gathering and using competitive intelligence?
3. Measuring Organizational Business Decisions (beginning on page 48, Business Driven Information System by P. Baltzan) are critical to business. If you are working now or in the past, compare and discuss your business success metrics with those listed and described. If you have little or no work experience, identify and discuss those metrics that you think would be most critical in business.