Information Systems
College of Business Administration
University of Missouri - St. Louis

IS 3843 -- Decision Support Systems for Business Intelligence
Schedule -- Spring, 2012
 Date Topic Readings: Sauter Readings: Web Speaker/Homework
January 18 Introduction and Definitions 1 Links Complete Information Form

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January 23 Decision Making

Models of Decision Making

2 Links

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January 22 Last Day to Add a Class
January 25 - February 1 Decision Making Methods and Models 2, 4  

Videos: COMDEX, First Born

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Group Preferences Due (1/30/12)

February 6 Business Intelligence 4 Links

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February 8-15 Models

Model Components

4 Links Video: Operations Research: Science and Technology for Informed Decision Making

Groups Announced (2/6/12)

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February 13   Guest Speaker: Judy Marth
Chief Logistics Integration Officer
The Boeing Company

February 13

University Date for Dropping a Class with no grade
February 15 Model Management 4, 4S  

February 20   Guest Speaker:
Todd Randolph and Nick Roppolo, KPMG
February 20 - 22 Analytics Tools     View campus events, including network-credit-eligible events.
February 27 A N A L Y T I C S   P R E S E N T A T I O N S Final Rating Due
February 29 Implementing Model Management Features 4, 5

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Video: Dilbert: Art

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March 5 - 7 User Interface Component and Dashboards 5, 12 Links
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March 10

Middle of the Semester
March 12   Guest Speaker: Paul Boal
Sisters of Mercy Health System
March 12 M I D T E R M    D I S T R I B U T E D
March 12 -14 The Data Component

Data Warehousing

3 Links

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March 19 - April 4 Data Warehousing    

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March 19 M I D T E R M    D U E
March 21 Last day to drop class with a guaranteed passing grade
March 24 - April 1 S P R I N G    B R E A K
April 7 Last day to drop the class, except under extraordinary circumstances
April 9 - 11 Intelligence and Data Mining 3, 4S Links

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April 9   Guest Speaker: Tom Henry, Express Scripts
April 16 - April 18   7  

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April 16   Guest Speaker: , IBM
April 23 - April 25 International Issues in DSS 7 Links

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April 20 - May 2 Implementation 9 Links

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April 30 B U S I N E S S    I N T E L L I G E N C E    P R E S E N T A T I O N S Final Rating Due
May 7 F I N A L    E X A M    D U E

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