1. How do businesses make decisions? How do you make a good decision? Why do people make bad decisions?
2. How can you quickly examine data and view subtotals without writing hundreds of queries?
3. How does a decision support system help you analyze data?
4. Is it possible to automate the analysis of data? Discuss: Can information technology be more intelligent? Can it analyze data and evaluate rules?
5. How do you create an expert system? Can machines be made even smarter? What technologies can be used to help managers?
6. What would it take to convince you that a machine is intelligent?
7. What are the differences between DSS, ES, and AI systems?
NOTE: These are not 7 questions to be answered but 7 points for discussion (read, research, post your point of view and discuss counter-points).
Use examples and external (to the text-book) references to support your posts.