ICIS 2010 panel report: technologies that transform business and research: lessons from the past as we look to the future

What are the technologies that will transform business and drive the research agenda for the IS field in the years to come? Which innovations, platforms, and paradigms will become dominant, and which others will ultimately pass into obscurity? Thoughts on these questions are provided by those with a unique and unmatched perspective. The leaders who have witnessed the birth and development of the IS field during the past forty to fifty years draw on their experiences and their deep knowledge of the field to identify the characteristics of technologies that have changed business in the past. They also explain how and why today's innovations will change both research and practice going forward. Their insights have the potential to identify topics for researchers to examine now and in the years to come

Developing Practical Support Tools using Dashboards of Information

International audienceOver 50 years of research on how to support managers’ decision making, numerous solutions have been proposed under a variety of banners, as discussed in the contributions presented in this book. One of the recent terms to have been proposed is Business Inteligence (BI), which aims at leveraging new technologies for the gathering, presentation, and analysis of up-to-date data about the firm’s operations to top management. BI is largely distinguished from previous concepts by its reliance on new platforms and technologies (for instance web technologies) to provide nimbler solutions, more responsive to managerial needs than earlier types of systems. As part of BI, the concept of dashboards of information or digital dashboards has been revisited, notably by software vendors. This chapter explains in detail what dashboards of information are and how to develop them. It considers where business data come from and how to use them to support decision making with a dashboard. Using the concept of cognitive levels, it differentiates between different types of aplications of the dashboard concept. Finally, the chapter aspects of its activities and concludes presents an illustrative case study of a firm seeking to develop a nimble tool for measuring and understanding the key that it is the content of the dashboard and the context in which it is used that are the key elements in the process of developing a dashboard