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Lessons can be learned from failures. Provide an example of a decision support system failure, and discuss the lessons that might be learned from that failure. How could you apply the lessons learned from this failure in the future?

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This solution discusses lessons that can be learned from failures. Examples of decision support system failures and the lessons learned from those failures are examined.

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One of the main disadvantages to decision support systems is that management can get so carried away in detail that they start to lose focus. We get overwhelmed or over-consumed by the details of the project that we lose sight of the main goals and objectives. This is often called information overload, and can happen in any setting where we are compiling information for a certain project or decision-based event. This happens often ...

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