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Differences between building a traditional DSS and an ODSS : lessons from the Air Force's Enlisted Force Management System

This paper discusses the differences between traditional decision-support systems (DSSs), which are designed for a single user and/or a single purpose, and organizational decision-support systems (ODSSs), which are designed for use by people at several workstations in more than one organizational unit. The author draws examples from an ODSS, the Enlisted Force Management System (EFMS), which is being used to help the Air Staff in the Pentagon make decisions related to their enlisted personnel. The EFMS supports decisions about functions that are spread among five organizational units in three locations. The author discusses the differences between the purposes of a traditional DSS and an ODSS, and then highlights the major differences in how they are designed, built, and maintained.

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  • "This paper discusses the differences between traditional decision-support systems (DSSs), which are designed for a single user and/or a single purpose, and organizational decision-support systems (ODSSs), which are designed for use by people at several workstations in more than one organizational unit. The author draws examples from an ODSS, the Enlisted Force Management System (EFMS), which is being used to help the Air Staff in the Pentagon make decisions related to their enlisted personnel. The EFMS supports decisions about functions that are spread among five organizational units in three locations. The author discusses the differences between the purposes of a traditional DSS and an ODSS, and then highlights the major differences in how they are designed, built, and maintained."@en
  • "Early descriptions of decision support systems (DSS's) were based on the paradigm of a single decisionmaker at a stand-alone terminal or microcomputer who had a specific decision (non-repetitive, semi-structured) to make. (Some of the early literature even recommended matching the user interface to the cognitive style of the decisionmaker). However, recent advances in computer technology, information systems, and telecommunications have facilitated a broadening of the scope of a DSS to include organizational units and, in some cases, entire organizations. In what follows, I will use the term organizational decision support system (ODSS) to refer to a DSS that is used by persons at several workstations in more than one organizational unit who make varied (interrelated but independent) decisions using a common tools. I will refer to the more traditional single user or single purpose system as a traditional decision support system (TDSS). The basic building blocks of an ODSS are the same as those of a TDSS: (1) model base (and model management system); (2) database (and database management system); and (3) user interface (a dialog system that manages the interaction between the user and the two components)."@en

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  • "Differences between building a traditional DSS and an ODSS : lessons from the Air Force's Enlisted Force Management System"@en
  • "Differences between building a traditional DSS and an ODSS: lessons from the Air Force's enlisted force management system"
  • "Differences Between Building a Traditional DSS and an ODSS: Lessons from the Air Force's Enlisted Force Management System"
  • "Differences between Building a Traditional DSS and an ODSS: Lessons from the Air Force's Enlisted Force Management System"@en
  • "Differences between building a traditional DSS and an ODSS : lessons from the air force's enlisted force management system"

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