Decision Making-An essence to Problem solving

The objective of this study is to test the effectiveness of various decision-making styles in the decision-making process, which helps to respond to a problem by searching for and selecting a solution or course of action that will create value for an organization. Different decision-making style approaches are considered. Study is conducted by taking complex, semi-structured problem often used to train and evaluate management personnel. For testing the effectiveness of these styles, two prototype systems will be constructed. The Decision Support Systems architecture serves as a control and the Just-in-time intelligent Decision Support Systems as the experimental architecture. The experiment will test whether the use of either of the two systems offers a significant improvement in the process of and outcome from the four decision-making styles. The paper closes with a conclusion on the results of the experiment and their implications on Information Systems Research in relation to the decision making process.