MIS 463 Decision Support Systems for BusinessFALL 2017
PROJECT PROPOSAL
TITLE OF PROJECT
Team No:Full name of team members, 12 Times New Roman, bold
I. INTRODUCTION
I.1 The Decision Environment
- Define the decision problem and the system under consideration.
State Decisions, Associated Decisions,
State Decision Makers,
State Decision Scope, Decision period, frequency of decision,
Discuss the nature and complexity of decision,
List Bottlenecks and constraints of the your real life problem,
State the “current” level of goal attainment in the existing system,
State the sensitivity of the decision to certain input parameters, i.e., how high is the cost of erroneous decisions? State the related risks
- Define the significance of the problem and the necessity of a computerized information system for decisionsupport.
I.2Mission of Project
Define your Mission, goals, sub-goals and objectives.
I.3 Scope of Project
Express what is included and what is not. Just state your intensions for the scope
I.4 Methodology
Define the methodology that you are planning to use to model the decision environment, i.e., you may use operations research, data mining or simulation. Discuss here, why you plan to use that technique. What types of input data are required for your model? How do you plan to obtain them?
II. PROJECTPLAN
Explain basic steps of your project and give a future time plan.
Discuss potential difficulties that you may face.
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/ MASTER PLANProject Code
Project Title
Team Members
Phase / Planned / Actual / Complete% / Problems
Start / Finish / Start / Finish
Team Formation / 5 Oct
Project Proposal / 15 Oct
Presentation / 22-26 Oct
Literature Review (Library, Web, former studies)
Interviews with experts, decision makers in the related area
Development of the model
Midreport / 12Nov
Presentation / 19-23 Nov
Data Collection and Organization
Coding interfaces
Validation (Optional)
Final Report / 18-Dec
Presentation / 24-28 Dec
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