Understanding Decision-Making in Data Warehousing and Related Decision Support Systems: An Explanatory Study of a Customer Relationship Management Application

  • Authors:
  • John D. Wells;Traci J. Hess

  • Affiliations:
  • Washington State University, USA;Washington State University, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Resources Management Journal
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Many businesses have made or are making significant investments in data warehouses that reportedly support a myriad of decision support systems DSS. Due to the newness of data warehousing and related DSS DW-DSS, the nature of the decision support provided to DW-DSS users and the related impact on decision performance have not been investigated in an applied setting. An explanatory case study was undertaken at a financial services organization that implemented a particular type of DW-DSS, a Customer Relationship Management CRM system. The DSS-decision performance model has provided some theoretical guidance for this exploration. The case study results show that the decision-making support provided by these systems is limited and that an extended version of the DSS-decision performance model may better describe the factors that influence individual decision-making performance.