Students will become familiar with and understand methodologies and processes of knowledge building within an organization, and be shown ways to exploit this knowledge in order to implement computer-based decision support systems. The course will expose the students to decision making support systems in organizations. It will present the interaction between these and computer information systems, and survey approaches to developing decision making support systems according to various types of organizational decisions: descriptive systems, forecasting systems, data mining tools, and artificial intelligence. The course offers examples from the industry and experience in implementing decision making support systems.