Visual Histories of Decision Processes for Business Intelligence

In contemporary professional work, particularly groupwork, knowing what has been done, and why it was done, is often crucial to a project's success. Further, an important aspect of organizational memory is the shared history of project work (successful and unsuccessful both). Yet, most work and project management software provide only minimal tools for supporting review, reflection and reporting of such histories. The goal of this research project is to devise, prototype and test dynamic visual histories and linked repositories for collaborative decision making. The partner company's core enterprise is software tools for complex tasks in organizations. The company will benefit through new concepts for managing project histories and new insights into their current and future products.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Robert Woodbury

Student:

Karine Koslova

Partner:

SAP Business Objects Division

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Simon Fraser University