提要文摘: | Management Science is of paramount importance in this effort. It provides decision makers with an extensive range of methodologies, skills, models and software tools that are necessary in order to effectively address a wide range of decision problems. More specifically, Management Science has been very helpful in management and decision making by contributing: a) A rational, systematic and robust methodology that can be followed when addressing a decision problem, b) A rich set of models, techniques and tools that can be used to structure, understand and solve the problem, and c ) A rich interface environment that helps the decision maker understand a solution, evaluate alternative solutions and come up with the preferred one. In all of these steps, the decision maker is supported by specialized easy-to-use software, which often come as additions (add-ins) to popular software like Excel, or are part of corporate Business Intelligence Systems or Decision Support Systems. |