Introductory Management Science : Decision Modeling With Spreadsheets (with CD-ROM) Review

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(More customer reviews)I use this book for my "Quantitative Methods for Decision Making" class and there is some involvement of mathematics. But it is just easy to understand and to use. Also the methods used here are really sort of fundamental and important. I recommend this book for those who really hate deep mathematical involvement in management science.

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This highly-esteemed text introduces readers to the key ideas of modeling and management decision making that will be important to them throughout their careers. Addressing the needs of readers interested in both business administration and decision science careers, the book provides a conceptual foundation for all topics and the role of spreadsheet modeling techniques in the larger context of business decision-making. This text fully integrated Excel spreadsheets. It is packaged with a free CD-ROM which contains the student version of Crystal Ball Software, Excel templates, plus much, much more. Part of JIT program.

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Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets Review

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(More customer reviews)Factors that contributed to a low rating for this book include, a lack of user-friendliness and lengthy case studies. The blue colored wordings (black would be better) can be quite glaring under the lights making it not smoothing to the eyes.
Furthermore, it uses long case studies which could have been shortened by cutting down on the introductions to the companies it made reference to. More focus should be given to concepts at the earlier stage of every section, instead of making the reader running through a lengthy introduction before focusing on the concepts.
Important concepts could also have been left out. One example would be the omission of 'Reduced Cost' under the chapters of Linear Programming and Integer Programming.
However, this book is certainly catered to users of MS Excel. It has in-depth discussions of Excel in areas of Management Science

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These authors are well known for their best selling text, Introduction to Operations Research.This new text is also headed for great success, as it offers a unique case-study approach, and it integrates the use of Excel.Each chapter includes a case study which is meant to show the students a real and interesting application of the topics addressed in that chapter...--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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