GDSS
• GDSS aim at supporting a group to cooperate
and work effectively together to reach its
goals
• Purpose is to support and develop the whole
group decision making process
• GDSS can improve the productivity of
decision-making meetings, either
– by speeding up the decision-making process or
– by improving the quality of the resulting decisions
GDSS
• GDSS includes a network of computers,
usually in a face-to-face environment and the
software which enables a group to exchange
written comments and voting results
• GDSS meetings are technically different from
conventional meetings in three ways:
– each participant has a PC
– a facilitator helps a chairperson to run a meeting
– combination of oral and IT communication
