Gartner on Collaborative Decision Making

Gartner has published their take on the new Collaborative Decision Making market (CDM)

This report predicts a new style of decision support system — collaborative decision making (CDM) — will emerge in 2009 that combines social software with business intelligence (BI). This combination can dramatically improve the quality of decision making by directly linking the information contained in BI systems with collaborative input gleaned through the use of social software.

Read the full report here (and thanks to Nic Smith of Microsoft for the link).

Figure 1.Integrated DEFinition Model of Decision Making and Collaborative Decision-Making Tools

Figure 2.Role of Collaborative Decision Making in Various Decision Types

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