STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENT A DSS FOR ASSESSING TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS

Giovanni Camponovo, Samuel Bendahan, Yves Pigneur

2004

Abstract

Assessing the external environment is an important component of organizations' survival and success. Unfortunately, a huge amount of information must be collected and processed in order to obtain a thorough and comprehensive representation of the environment. A decision support system can be very useful in helping decision makers to organize and analyze this information efficiently and effectively. This paper outlines a conceptual proposition helping to design such a system by presenting an ontology of the relevant information elements (actors, issues and needs) and a set of tools to analyze them. This paper also illustrates a prototype version of one of these tools which supports the analysis of the actors and issues perspectives.

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Camponovo G., Bendahan S. and Pigneur Y. (2004). STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENT A DSS FOR ASSESSING TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 122-129. DOI: 10.5220/0002614401220129


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Giovanni Camponovo and Samuel Bendahan and Yves Pigneur},
title={STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENT A DSS FOR ASSESSING TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={122-129},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002614401220129},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENT A DSS FOR ASSESSING TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Camponovo G.
AU - Bendahan S.
AU - Pigneur Y.
PY - 2004
SP - 122
EP - 129
DO - 10.5220/0002614401220129