Book Description
Valuable software, realistic examples, and fascinating topics . . . everything you need to master the most widely used management science techniques using Microsoft® Excel™ is right here! Learning to make decisions in today's business world takes training and experience. Cliff Ragsdale--the respected innovator in the field of management science--is an outstanding guide to help you learn the skills you need, use Microsoft Excel for Windows to implement those skills, and gain the confidence to apply what you learn to real business situations. SPREADSHEET MODELING AND DECISION ANALYSIS gives you step-by-step instructions and annotated screen shots to make examples easy to follow. Plus, interesting sections called The World of Management Science show you how each topic has been applied in a real company.
Customer Reviews:
A Good Book for Finance/IT majors.......2007-09-17
This book does what it sets out to do: teach spreadsheet modeling. I'm only on the third chapter, but the author does a good job including step by step instructions on how to create winning models. The author is also very easy to understand. So if you're going to be doing optimization and modeling in your work, I highly recommend this book.
Great book, and includes @RISK.......2007-08-06
Ragsdale really makes spreadsheet modeling accessible to real-world business situations. It was a great asset to my MBA coursework. As a student, it came with a free student version of @RISK risk analysis software as well.
Good practical text.......2006-11-12
A good book for those studying decision making techniques or as a reference for managers looking to upgrade their skills
Decision analysis.......2006-11-02
Excellent book; I am considering it as a textbook for a Managerial Sciences course. The examples are clear and real increasing the interest of the students.
Good book , worth to read.......2006-02-17
This book is designated as the textbook for our master's level management modeling class. The author concerntrated on the application of Microsoft Solver to solve various of optimazation problems that we freqently faced in the real business opreations. Overall, this is good book for entry-level management modeling study.
Customer Reviews:
Good for the real world too.......2007-03-02
This book was meant for use within a university classroom setting.
Surprisingly, unlike most textbooks, you can actually use this book in the real world. For example, a lot of business plan books and articles casually mention business forecasting. Unfortunately, the large majority of them barely mention any details on how to construct them. Well this book covers it in depth. As for other applications with the use of MS Excel, the book will show you the optimal amount of money you should put down into a select number of investments, how to perform project scheduling (with out MS Project), and the list goes on....
This is a good book.
Book Description
Now you can apply the techniques that business analysts at leading companies use to analyze and transform data into bottom line results. For more than 10 years, well-known consultant and business professor Wayne Winston has been teaching corporate clients and MBA candidates the most effective ways to use Microsoft Excel for data analysis, modeling, and decision making. This practical, business-focused guide delivers the best of Winston's classroom experience to you in 70+ concise chapters, organized by real-world scenarios. Quickly find and apply exactly the information you need to solve a specific business problem#151;from asset allocation modeling to estimating exponential growth, forecasting sales, optimizing portfolios, and other critical functions. You also get all the book's sample files on CD-ROM#151;ready for use in your own work.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2007-07-21
Excellent...It really help me to better understand the data analysis with many differents case scenarios...exercises...its for everyone.
Real Good for a textbook........2007-05-12
I had to use for a college class, but great speed in shipping.
Not bad, but not as good as expected.......2007-04-13
I am an intermediate to advanced Excel user, so my review may reflect that level. As others have said, it looks like MS rushed this book to the market, evidenced by so many errata, which can be disappointing especially when the solution is wrong. On the other hand, there are some very interesting and genuine uses of various Excel functions to solve business problems.
I wouldn't recommend this book for beginners. If you're trying to learn Excel, this is not the book. It is not a book to teach excel, but a book to teach you what you can do with Excel to solve everyday problems, given you're familiar with the mechanics of excel.
I would recommend it with these caveats. And getting Walkenbach's book on Excel functions along with this would be very helpful in my opinion. Best of luck in your endeavors.
Excellent.......2007-04-11
I have read many books in excel, but this book is really the most beneficial and excellent book I've used in my life. It is full with practical not theoritical examples. and you can benefit form it in your work.
Very practical, but full of errors.......2007-04-02
Overall, I like this book, even though it is somewhat confusing, both in scope and in the target audience.
The techniques of "naming the range" or writing the "if" formula are certainly targeted for beginners, but most of statistical tools are normally used by more advanced users.
The worst thing, though, is that the book is full of errors, both typos and mistakes in problem solutions on the disk. I consider myself an intermediate user, so finding an error in "instructor solution" was more like an additional challenge for me, but for the beginner this could be very frustrating.
On the positive side - I really liked the idea of problems in the end of each chapter; so many books just give you the theory and then you do not know how to solve a real life problem. For most of chapters, I knew the tools, but still had to spend time figuring out the best way to implement it for problem solving.
Very practical book, good for an intermediate users. Just be aware of the typos !
Book Description
Management Decision Making is a spreadsheet-based introduction to the tools and techniques of modern managerial decision making. The author shows how to formulate models in Microsoft Excel that can be used to analyze complex problems taken from all the functional areas of management, including finance, marketing, operations, and human resources. Throughout, the goal is to understand how business decisions are reached, what tradeoffs are made, and how outcomes depend on the underlying data. A CD-ROM is included that contains the widely-used decision analysis software applications TreePlan and Crystal Ball. The book is aimed at students of business, economics and engineering, including those taking MBA courses.
Customer Reviews:
College text that is valuable to working professionals.......2002-05-05
This college-level text is also useful to business and IT professionals because it provides a refresher for decision techniques that are the foundation of a number of disciplines. The book is divided into two parts: (1) deterministic methods, mainly focused on linear programming and optimization, and (2) probability and queuing.
What makes this book valuable to the practicing professional is that it uses one of the most common business tools, Microsoft Excel, and shows how to apply this tool to real world problems. The accompanying CD ROM comes with TreePlan for developing decision trees and CrystalBall for Monte Carlo simulation, as well as workbooks that are used to support the plethora of realistic examples used throughout the book.
Although the book is business-oriented and better suited for operations analysis and MBA students and practitioners, I've used it as a reference for project planning, computer system capacity planning and performance analysis, and IT security risk management - these practical uses of the material show the value of the book in the real world. The supporting web site that the author maintains has materials for lesson plans, errata and additional resources that make this book particularly valuable for the academic and business environments.
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Emphasizes building the most appropriate model possible from the available data.
* Major focus is on analysis and communication of results to management. Teaches readers how to conduct a management science study, analyze different situations, break down the steps of problem-solving, write a business report, and effectively communicate study results to management.
* A supporting CD-ROM is packaged with every book to include three complete additional chapters, additional cases and problems for every chapter, coverage of key algorithms and derivations, a review of statistics, the complete WINQSB package developed by Yih-Long Chang, and Excel files for every chapter.
* Computer Integrated Approach: Use of Excel, WinQSB, and LINDO for windows integrated throughout text for use in solving models.
Customer Reviews:
Good computer modeling book.......2007-07-12
Used this book as part of a MBA computer class. The website makes it easy to work on different computers since Excel files can be downloaded from website or taken from the CD included with the book.
Exercises were good and followed most of the material in the book. Almost all the material applied to "real world" situations.
Applied Management Science: A Computer-Integrated Approach f.......2003-04-01
This is a nobel effort. to try to do a very hard thing. The author however is very hard to follow and at times the explanations drifts into incoherance. Also, I think the author may be too brilliant to write for the average student. He might be better served by having a grad student or military trained person break down the book into coherant steps. This book has some gems of useful info, trapped in some bad explainations. The next version of this may be a truly great textbook. My advice to the author is to simplify and go step by step. Delete text and runon paragraphs where possible. If you take a class based on this book, insist on a lab and a helpful grad student.
nice book.......2000-11-27
It is very nice text book. That what i can say.
Bad Text By Department Chair.......2000-06-13
I was a student at Cal State Fullerton, where these professors teach. This is the worst textbook I have ever read. The text is poorly written. The book doesn't read well and has many typos. I would have expected more from the Management Science Department Chair.
Book Description
Master the techniques that business analysts at leading companies use totransform data into bottom-line results. For more than a decade, well-knownconsultant and business professor Wayne Winston has been teaching corporateclients and MBA students the most effective ways to use Microsoft OfficeExcel for data analysis, modeling, and decision making. Now thisaward-winning educator shares the best of his classroom experience in thispractical, business-focused guide--updated and expanded for Excel 2007.Each chapter advances your data analysis and modeling expertise usingreal-world examples and learn-by-doing exercises. You'll learn how tocreate best, worst, and most-likely scenarios for sales, estimate aproduct's demand curve, forecast using trend and seasonality, and determinewhich product mix will yield the greatest profit. You'll even discover howto interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales and how toassign a dollar value to customer loyalty. You get all the book'sproblem-and-solution files on CD--for all the practice you need to solvecomplex problems and work smarter with Excel.
Customer Reviews:
Excelente complemento para estudios de Postgrado.......2007-06-21
Este libro lo estoy utilizando actualmente en la documentación de mi Tesis de Grado (Maestría en Finanzas, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela), aplicando las secciones de Solver, modelaje financiero y análisis estadístico.
Book Description
This book is meant to give a good working knowledge of mathematical techniques available to model, solve and analyze real-world problems on spreadsheets that may arise in a work environment. Using this approach students have an easier time seeing the relevance of management science in the business world. The electronic spreadsheet has become the standard tool used to build models and analyze quantitative problems. This book incorporates all of the traditional management science topics taught today, but uses an electronic spreadsheet as a visual platform. The approach is centered on problem solving rather than learning mathematics or theory. It emphasizes both problem finding and formulation as managerial modeling and then uses the spreadsheet to layout the model on templates provided to the student to solve the problem. Students will then lead to the analysis of the results by performing "what-if" analysis-which is uniquely well matched to the spreadsheet approach. This allows them to get a feel for each type of model and what it can accomplish without getting confused with the math.
Customer Reviews:
The firepower of Excel unleashed for business decisionmaking.......2000-08-26
Dr. Hesse unlocks the firepower of Excel for Quantitative Analysis purposes. Using combinations of functions and functionality, he shows you how to perform decision analysis, linear programming and a host of other advanced business decision tools using the same simple spreadsheet platform that most people use for simple addition. True, it may not be the EASIEST read in the world, but using Dr. Hesse's methods could save you from purchasing dedicated analysis software that you may not need. DEFINITELY worth a look...
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