Problem Types Notes

1. Problem Types Notes For SYBCA – HETA DESAI

2. MIS for decision making Structure & Unstructured

3. Structured &programmable decisions • When a decision can be programmed, an organization can prepare a decision rule or a decision procedure. This can be expressed as a set of steps to follow, a flowchart, a decision table, or a formula. The decision procedure will also specify the information to be acquired before the decision rules are applied. Since structured programmable decisions can be pre specified, many of these decisions can be handled by lower level personal with little specialized knowledge. This procedure can also be completely automated although human review may be required. The process of structured decision making includes entering the required input data, validation procedure to check the input, processing of the input using decision logic and output of the programmed decision in a form that is useful for action.

4. Unstructured & non programmable decisions • The unstructured decision has no pre-established decision procedure either because the decision is too in frequent to justify the cost involves in preparing the decision procedure, or because the decision process in not understood well enough, or is too changeable to establish a decision procedure. The support requirements for an unstructured decision making include access to data and a variety of analysis & decision procedures. The data requirements are not completely know in advance hence data retrieval must allow ad hoc retrieval requests