Quantitative Analysis for Decision Makers

Auteur

Mik Wisniewski has almost five decades of experience in Quantitative Analysis. He has taught at a number of leading universities, worked in both industry and government and has extensive consultancy experience in the UK and across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Dr Farhad Shafti is a senior academic with expertise in Management Science. He has extensive experience teaching in highly ranked universities, covering undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA studies in the UK and overseas.

Dr Wee Meng Yeo is a senior lecturer at Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow. Prior to joining University of Glasgow, he was a research scientist at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology. His areas of expertise are operations management, forecasting and inventory control.

Résumé

Understand the relevance of quantitative analysis techniques to management decision-making

Quantitative Analysis for Decision Makers, 8th Edition, by Wisniewski, Shafti and Yeo answers the quintessential question that lies at the heart of every manager's role: deciding what to do and how to do it. It provides an accessible introduction to quantitative methods of analysis to management decision-making by relating techniques directly to real-life business decisions in public and private sector organisations.

Suitable for students on introductory-level courses as well as MBA and postgraduate courses, this internationally popular text focuses on the practical application of the techniques rather than on mechanical calculation. The use of real data sets helps you understand that in the real world such analysis is often time-consuming and messy, but nevertheless essential for effective decision making.

The new edition offers:

• Updated case illustrations from global business organisations like Tesla, Netflix, WWF, Google, Unilever and many more.
• Extended discussion of how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts on quantitative analysis and decision making.
• 'QADM in action' case studies illustrating how organisations benefit from the use of analytical techniques in the real world.
• Coverage of recent developments such as Big Data and business analytics; developments in multi-criteria decision analysis and data mining; agent-based simulation; data visualisation.
• Fully worked examples and exercises supported by Excel data sets to show how to approach a particular problem using the techniques.
• Latest and ongoing developments in the quantitative analysis field. About the authors:

Mik Wisniewski has almost five decades of experience in Quantitative Analysis. He has taught at a number of leading universities, worked in both industry and government and has extensive consultancy experience in the UK and across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Dr Farhad Shafti is a senior academic with expertise in Management Science. He has extensive experience teaching in highly ranked universities, covering undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA studies in the UK and overseas.

Dr Wee Meng Yeo is a senior lecturer at Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow. Prior to joining University of Glasgow, he was a research scientist at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology. His areas of expertise are operations management, forecasting and inventory control.

Contenu

List of 'QADM in action' case studies

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. Tools of the Trade
3. Presenting Management Information
4. Management Statistics
5. Probability and Probability Distributions
6. Decision Making Under Uncertainty
7. Statistical Inference: Making Senses of Sample Information
8. Quality Control and Quality Management
9. Forecasting I: Moving Averages and Time Series
10. Forecasting II: Regression
11. Linear Programming
12. Inventory Control
13. Project Management
14. Simulation
15. Financial Decision Making

Postscript: A quick look at recent developments in QADM

Appendices