“Decision Support Systems” is the traditional term. It has come to include a variety of corporate-speak terms :  business intelligence, business dashboards, simulation models, et. al.  What we mean by DSS is simply an interactive tool that supports a strategic business decision process. It may be a complex, sophisticated, multi-stage model that incorporates several analytical steps that lead to an informed strategic decision. Or it may simply be an executive KBI dashboard that tracks the pulse of the business, creating alerts when things change in important ways.

Our core competency is the effective bridging of sophisticated analytical techniques to complex business decisions. Practitioners of quantitative analytical methodologies often do not share the same strategic business perspective as their clients, i.e., executives who have a more holistic responsibility for business decisions.  Too often, quantitative researchers and data modelers have a myopic focus [Continue reading]