Intended for business professionals, and managers who would like to have a better conceptual understanding of the role management science in the decision-making process. Rather than giving instruction in just solving problems and models, this textbook focuses on the process of modeling and the use of models to aid in analyzing various managerial situations. The emphasis of this text will be on the integration and development of modeling skills including problem recognition, data collection, model formulation, analysis, and communicating and implementing the results.

Quantitative Business Modeling

Business & Money

Turban, Efraim

Meredith, Jack R.

Shafer, Scott M.

Management & Leadership

South-Western College Pub.

Operations Management for MBAs provides an introduction to the basic concepts of operations management with a strategic, conceptual, and contemporary approach. Specifically written with the needs of MBA students in mind, current topics such as supply chain management, the balanced scorecard, and yield management, as well as those specific to marketing, finance and other majors are explained.

Operations Management for MBAs with Crystal Ball CD

wiley

This new text provides students with clear step-by-step techniques for creating, developing, and evaluating essential project management tools. Readers will learn concepts and skills using project plans, work breakdown structures, budgets, network diagrams, resource allocations, and project evaluations.

Project Management

Portny, Stanley E.

Mantel Jr., Samuel J.

Sutton, Margaret M.

Following a computer program orientation, Core Concepts focuses on more than just concepts. It actually shows how to effectively do project management. The book is organized around the project management life cycle, mirroring the way a real-world project is completed. Readers will gain a better understanding of essential project management fundamentals as they learn the material they'll need to know for the Project Management Body of Knowledge certification program.

Project Management in Practice

Wiley Pathways Comp Project Management

Operations Management for MBAs

Offering streamlined coverage with an applied approach, Project Management in Practice, 4th Edition focuses on the essentials of project management. This concise, hands-on text is ideal for a one semester project management course, or as a module on project management. This textbook is organised around the project management life cycle and it provides students with essential project management concepts.

Uses primarily service examples instead of manufacturing. * Contains realistic problems that real managers would encounter.

Jack Meredith and Scott Shafer abandon the traditional approach for operations management books and focus on business processes and spreadsheets to solve problems. They provide readers with an applied and contemporary introduction to operations management as well as a solid foundation in its theory. With this text, readers will discover the latest trends currently being used in business. They'll learn about the additional skills needed to succeed in an extremely competitive environment. This includes the trend away from vertical hierarchical organizations toward horizontal process-centered ones creating a need for individuals who can also work as part of a team and who understand how technology can be used to better meet customer needs.

Operations Management: A Process Approach With Spreadsheets

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Get a concise, hands-on, and applied approach to project management with the new edition of Core Concepts. The authors take a computer program orientation, focusing on doing Project Management. They organize the book around the project management life cycle, provide you with essential project management concepts, and tie them into the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Project Management Institute runs the PMBOK certification program). This edition includes revised discussion of the integration of parent organization's strategies into project selection and management; and greatly expanded coverage of risk management and assessment in the project management process.

Core Concepts, with CD: Project Management in Practice

Computers & Technology

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Books by Shafer, Scott M.

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Quantitative Business Modeling

Operations Management for MBAs with Crystal Ball CD

Project Management

Project Management in Practice

Wiley Pathways Comp Project Management

Operations Management for MBAs

Project Management in Practice

Operations Management for MBAs

Operations Management: A Process Approach With Spreadsheets

Core Concepts, with CD: Project Management in Practice