Dursun Delen

author of "Business Intelligence Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective"

December 7, 2016

Dr. Dursun Delen is the holder of William S. Spears and Neal Patterson Endowed Chairs in Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and management from OSU in 1997. Prior to his appointment as an assistant professor at OSU in 2001, he worked for a privately-owned research and consultancy company, Knowledge Based Systems Inc., in College Station, Texas, as a research scientist for five years, during which he led a number of decision support, information systems and advanced analytics related research projects funded by federal agencies, including DoD, NASA, NIST and DOE. His research has appeared in major journals including Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences, Computers and Operations Research, Computers in Industry, Journal of Production Operations Management, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Expert Systems with Applications, among others. He recently authored/coauthored eight books/textbooks in the broad area of Business Analytics. He is often invited to national and international conferences for keynote addresses on topics related to Healthcare Analytics, Data/Text Mining, Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management. He regularly serves and chairs tracks and mini-tracks at various information systems and analytics conferences, and serves on a dozen academic journals as editor-in-chief, senior editor, associate editor and editorial board member.

This book deals with a collection of computer technologies that support managerial work – essentially, decision making. These technologies have had a profound impact on corporate strategy, performance, and competitiveness. Collectively, these technologies are called business intelligence, business analytics, and data science. Specifically, this book is about using business analytics as computerized support for decision making. It concentrates on the theoretical and conceptual foundations of decision support, as well as on the commercial tools and techniques that are available. This book presents the fundamentals of the techniques and the manner in which these systems are constructed and used. The book follows an EEE approach to introduce these topics: Exposure, Experience, and Explore. That is, the book primarily provides exposure to various analytics techniques and their applications. The idea is that a student will be inspired to learn from how other organizations have employed analytics to make decisions or to gain a competitive edge. It is believed that such exposure to what is being done with analytics and how it can be achieved is the key component of learning about analytics. In describing the techniques, the book also introduces specific software tools that can be used for developing such applications.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2017-honorees-b/dursun-delen

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