Featured issue on collaborative decision processes and analysis

Collaboration together with organizational context is extremely important within decision-making processes. While organizations have to get ready to cope with high technology standards to face competition in the current era of decision making, heavily driven by large-scale data, there is a clear need to enforce the importance of Decision Support Systems to exploit the potentiality of Collaborative Decision Processes and Analysis. Decision processes include an organizational and a cognitive dimension. Businesses need to be reactive in order to stay abreast with the fast-changing technology evolution lead to constant adaptations in those organizational and cognitive processes. While the organizational processes evolve and tend towards having more actors involved in the decision making, the responsibilities and the processes tend to be more distributed. On the other hand, the necessity to report and inform stakeholders about the decision processes is an increasingly strong requirement. These collaboration aspects invite us not only to review the classical model of decision making, but to redesign the decision support which focuses on essential elements like: the plethora of multiple information, the added value needed by the processes of innovation and design, and finally the importance of the decision