Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Chapter 13: Introduction to Optimization Modeling and Chapter 14: Optimization Models.
Now is the time to celebrate what you have learned in the course and apply it in practice. Imagine you are a business analyst who is writing an article for
Forbes magazine evaluating a recent initiative by a prominent organization of your choice and the data-based decision-making processes they implemented.
Your editor has asked you to include the below bullet points in your evaluation.
In your final paper,
– Select an organization.
– Describe the industry and business model.
– Examine a recent initiative that the organization implemented.
– Assess the success of the initiative.
– Describe the organization’s decision support systems and their decision-making process.
– Identify the decision support tools used by the organization to make various structured, semi-structured, and unstructured decisions.
– Outline their processes and tools the organization used following the decision tree model.
– Evaluate how their decision support system contributed to either the success or failure of the initiative.
– Assess how the organization could have approached the initiative differently to realize greater success.