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As the environment becomes competitive, organizations must develop the ability to quickly adapt to changes, becoming flexible and responsive. The decision making process should be quicker and more assertive, leading to action. Organizations need to make the right choices and implement them as decided. It is important that organizations be aware of the implementation of decisions and its impact. Monitoring the implementation of the decision and analyzing its results is the main way of assessing the decisive process itself. Extensive work has been done on decision making, but not on decision implementation. The goal of this research is to increase adherence of the implementation to the decision made. Given that large sums of money are spent on the decision making phase, implementations that do not adhere to the decisions may lead to undesired results, frustrating decision makers. In this paper, we present a method and a system to support decision implementation. With this research, we seek to contribute to the decision making process, specifically during implementation phase.
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Campos, A., Vivacqua, A.S., Borges, M.R.S. (2010). Supporting the Decision Implementation Process. In: Kolfschoten, G., Herrmann, T., Lukosch, S. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15714-1_9
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