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When evaluating the six-step decision making process, what occurs during the solution selection step?

A) The process will begin again if the decisions made were incorrect.
B) Definition of the problem as clearly and precisely as possible.
C) Details of every solution possible including ideas that seem farfetched.
D) The solution that best solves the problem is selected.

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As the product manager for the eatery division at Whole Foods, Jerry is responsible for analyzing sales data to help him manage his team.Today Jerry is analyzing his data using aggregation techniques allowing him to see simple roll-ups to complex groupings of interrelated information.Which of the following common digital dashboard capabilities is Jerry using to analyze his departments success?

A) Slice-and-Dice
B) Pivot
C) Drill-down
D) Consolidation

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Which of the following is considered an operational decision or structured decision?

What is the process within a genetic algorithm of randomly trying combinations and evaluating the success (or failure) of the outcome?

Which of the following is considered an input in the systems thinking example of a TPS?

What is the basic business system that serves the operational level and assists in making structured decisions?

Van Lines Inc.is a large corporation operating in all 50 states.Jim Poulos is the regional manager overseeing the western division, which includes Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada.Jim receives data from his managers in each state which he loads into his digital dashboard for analysis of his entire western division.What digital dashboard capability is Jim primarily using?

What encompasses all organizational information with the primary purpose of supporting the performance of managerial analysis or semistructured decisions?

Which of the following would you include as decisions and responsibilities typically found at the managerial level of a company?

A neural network is a category of efficiency metrics that attempts to measure the way the human brain works.

Fuzzy logic is the process within a genetic algorithm of randomly trying combinations and evaluating the success (or failure) of the outcome.

Which of the following represents the three different levels of a company pyramid from the top to the bottom?

A pivot rotates data to display alternative presentations of the data.

At which level will a manager use analytics to make decisions?

Which of the following represent the four main DSS analysis techniques outlined in the chapter?

Augmented reality is the viewing of the physical world with computer-generated layers of information added to it.

What is the manipulation of information to create business intelligence in support of strategic decision making?

Source documents are simplified representations or abstractions of reality.

Tom Jordan is a manager for a McDonald's restaurant.Many of his key responsibilities include analyzing data and making key decisions for the success of his store.Tom's store has been experiencing decreased sales for breakfast services over the past three months.Tom is unsure why breakfast revenues are down while lunch and dinner revenues remain unchanged.Tom believes that he can drive revenue up by implementing a few different breakfast promotions such as free coffee or hash browns with the purchase of a meal.Tom performs an extensive analysis of how continuous changes in breakfast promotions could impact his daily revenue.What type of DSS analysis is Tom performing?

What would managers use to make structured decisions at the operational level?