Decision Taking as a Service
This work proposes a conceptual framework for decision-making services, which is incremental as it builds on existing ideas like decision casting without introducing new methods or data.
The paper introduces Decision Taking as a Service (DTaaS) as a concept for outtasking decision-making processes, examining its preconditions and compatibility with selfsourcing, and discusses its potential advantages and disadvantages without providing concrete results or numbers.
Decision taking can be performed as a service to other parties and it is amenable to outtasking rather than to outsourcing. Outtasking decision taking is compatible with selfsourcing of decision making activities carried out in preparation of decision taking. Decision taking as a service (DTaaS) is viewed as an instance of so-called decision casting. Preconditions for service casting are examined, and compliance of decision taking with these preconditions is confirmed. Potential advantages and disadvantages of using decision taking as a service are considered.