Software S u r ve y
Decision analysis
Decision tools continue to evolve, providing analysts
with more horsepower to transform increasingly vast
amounts of information into decision advantage.
By William M. Patchak
s the U.S. Men’s National
Soccer Team’s dreams for
World Cup victory ended
this summer in a close loss
to Belgium, pundits debated what areas
of improvement were most needed for the
team’s future success. “They need more
possession time with the ball,” one stated. “Yes, but it has to be possession with
purpose,” another countered. In fact, this
statement probably rings true for many of
today’s decision prof \