Developing the functionality of a mobile decision support system

Observation of present-day decision-makers, increasingly seen among mobile workers, reveals what their role is essentially about as well as some of the emergent properties of their behaviors: the pursuit of rich face-to-face communication, the need to process a large variety of data feeds, the capability of operating under high-risk exposure and tough competition, innovativeness, the facility to form winning coalitions, and persistent concern for image and repute. While many mobile decision-makers make a substantial contribution to the development of an organizational information system, their ability to exploit the system may be compromised by a number of limitations relating to, for example, accessibility. This paper seeks to explore the evolution of modern technologies and IT solutions in the context of computer support for the mobile decision-maker.