摘要
This paper will discuss the advantage of decision making supported by a digital system and will provide an overview.Decision making in organizations is a significant system implied task of managers and therefore a broad area in scientific research,not only in the discipline management—even from technical to humanistic disciplines.Nowadays the trend of digitalization captures all areas of live as well as the typical management task of decision making.Triggered by the digitalization trend business will move toward an autonomous decision making of machines or cyber systems.The important step toward autonomous decisions or decision support(cyber systems will prepare a decision,but finally executed by a human)will be the next development step for decision making.The hypothesis,that the digital set up for decision making in organizations will increase the efficiency of strategic decisions will be proofed by an empiric study.The research method for the empiric part of this paper is a questionnaire.This online questionnaire will be answered by professionals and scholar.As a typical example for a strategic decision,the author explains a business case in the supply chain function of organizations.The research findings of the questionnaire will illustrate that the digitalization of supply chain processes is in scope of managers and consultants,to reach higher efficiency by increased turnover or reduced costs.The result of this paper verifies an improved decision process by usage of digital features,but the capability of the entire digital possibilities is not fully achieved yet.
