Name: Course Description: Principles of Management Science
Uploaded: 2018-07-14T09:50:58.000Z
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he's argued that the work of managers, scientists,

engineers, lawyers, the work that really kind of steers

and shapes our society, its economy, its government

That work is largely about making decisions and solving

It's worthwhile spending a little bit of time thinking

And that's really what our class management science is about,

basically solving making decisions and solving problems.

I'm a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management

I teach there every day, and this is a course

Believe it or not, I think we started with Lotus 123.

and in fact, sometimes we call it spreadsheet optimization.

A little bit about my bio, I guess in my undergraduate days,

I studied unusual combination, business, chemistry,

I sort of had it in the back of my mind I wanted

to work in one of the health professions,

So after five years later, and another degree, an MBA,

I was kind of thinking maybe it was time to get back

But in the process, I also applied to graduate school

and ended up falling for the charms of Seattle.

So my PhD is in Operations Management from the University

I left there and came to Syracuse University, where

I've been pretty much ever since, working

My research is primarily in resource management,

largely in the service sector, workforce scheduling

So that will probably permeate some of our discussions

I mentioned that the course is built around spreadsheets.

or sorry, Lotus, that was a long time ago.

But I think maybe by the time it lands on your desk,

you'll be able to use the 2016 version of Office.

So there might be some minor differences,

but I don't think they will be too significant.

Now, all of us are spreadsheet experts, I'll bet,

but I'll show you, hopefully, a couple of things

that you haven't seen before, some things to do with Excel.

For those of you that don't feel quite as comfortable with it,

we've got a bit of an orientation and some training

that you can do offline to get yourself up to speed.

We'll take you through, I guess, some ad hoc solution

methodologies first and then dive into that

for solution methodologies, that's Excel Solver.

these problems, for the most part, isn't the big deal.

is really more of an art, form and that's

translating a problem that you think you understand

into something that your spreadsheet model can

understand, translating it into an algebraic series

will be where we're going to develop proficiency

with modeling for decision-making purposes.

We'll look at linear programs, network linear programs,

integer programs, non-linear programs, goal programs,

multi-objective programs, and get a great sense of these.

We'll find applications that might be familiar to you,

and others that you may not have encountered before,

as a means of improving your decision making.

you compare dissimilar units in your organization.

Maybe get a sense of who's using resources effectively

and who can maybe benefit from what others

I think we conclude with a little study of waiting,

something that we're all quite proficient at, it seems.

So that's pretty much the road map of where we're going.

I like it a lot, and I hope by the end of this you do as well.