The instructor's manual includes recommendations on approaches to meeting the chapters' learning objectives. It includes answers to review questions, thoughts on the discussion topics, and responses to the DSS Insights exercises. It also includes a large test bank of multiple choice and true/false problems is furnished. In preparing exams, these can supplement the review questions (which can be readily transformed into problems of the short answer or fill-in-the-blank variety) and the discussion topics (which can serve as essay problems).

A set of transparency masters is available to adopters. It includes masters for figures, tables, and some special interest boxes. Contact your West representative. Additional masters following the flow of the chapters have been prepared using Powerpoint. These are available in electronic as well as hardcopy form to adopters. Alternatively, these Powerpoint files can be downloaded from this site. A detailed set of course notes following the flow of the book's chapters has been prepared using Word. These Word or PDF files can be downloaded as well.

A video tape has been produced for adopters of the text: Decision Support Systems Case Demonstration Video (by C. Holsapple, W. Luo, and K. Sims from Course Technology, 1996, ISBN 0-314-20433-4). It contains demonstrations of prototype DSSs implemented by students who took courses centered around earlier manuscript versions of this book. As such, it shows current students the kinds of systems they could expect to develop as course projects. This tape could be used at the outset of the DSS course to give a visual orientation to what a student will have accomplished by the end of the term. It could also be used at a later point when the student projects are assigned, giving a visual sense of project expectations.

Other ancillary materials include whatever software tools and associated workbook tutorials an instructor may choose to use in the course. Because the possibilities are so varied and we have no intention of forcing all instructors into the straight jacket of a single tool, no such ancillaries accompany the book. They are readily available from a variety of software vendors and book publishers. In many cases, these supplements are already in place at an institution.

This web site also serves as an ancillary to the book. It has an interactive dimension furnished by the DSS Discussion Forum allowing students around the world to share questions and ideas related to contents of the book's chapters. There is an Instructors Discussion Forum to encourage interaction and idea exchanges among those who have adopted the text for coursework. There is a list of corrections to the book, plus links to related resources.