COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKING - AN ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION

Decision Support Systems (DSS) have been developed to support the comp utational, judgmental, and negotiation decisions typically encountered by organizational decision makers. Software for generating ideas has also become available. However, these systems typically operate on the individual or small group level, not on the broader organizational le vel. Also, their focus is usually on the decision-making process while neglecting the product. This article first develops a framework relat ing decision types to current DSS. It then proposes an architecture fo r integrating these component systems to support innovation at an orga nizational level and to support assessment of the creative product as well as the process.