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Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel (with InfoTrac and CD-ROM)
S. Christian Albright , Wayne Winston , and Christopher Zappe Manufacturer: Duxbury Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 053438367X |
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The emphasis of the text is on data analysis, modeling, and spreadsheet use in statistics and management science. This text contains professional Excel software add-ins. The authors maintain the elements that have made this text a market leader in its first edition: clarity of writing, a teach-by-example approach, and complete Excel integration.Customer Reviews:
Managerial Statistics Text book.......2006-11-03
Sanjay Chheda.......2006-10-06
Better Title: Intro to Statistics using Excel Add-ins.......2001-06-04
Serious Excel 2000 Problem.......2001-04-12
No trouble with Excel.......2001-01-31
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Strategic Planning for Information Systems
John L. Ward , and Joe Peppard Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470841478 |
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"Accessibility and clarity of purpose maintained throughout." "Clear, practical, comprehensive."
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"A clear exposition of the impact that IS has had on business performance."
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"Lucid analysis."
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Strategic Planning for Information Systems (3rd Edition) explores the impact that Information Systems (IS) have on business performance and the contribution IS makes to the strategic development of organizations. It describes IS tools, techniques and management frameworks - all of which identify opportunities for strategic thinking, and shows how IS is an indispensable component in the implementation of a strategic plan.
Since the earlier edition of Strategic Planning for Information Systems, much has changed in the way business is organized. However, the essence of the book remains the same - it is a practical and comprehensive book written in a clear and straightforward way. This new edition focuses more on strategic management of IS than on the progress made in recent years in either technology or business processes. This 3rd edition is substantially updated and illustrated with new cases material and examples. Additional material will cover the role of ecommerce, knowledge management and benefits management systems. This book will also show why Information Systems and Information Technology investment works for some organizations and not for others.
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Strategic Planning for Information Systems explores the impact that information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) have on business performance and the contribution that they make to the strategic options of organisations. It describes tools, techniques and management frameworks to both align strategies for IS and IT with business strategy, as well as seek out new opportunities through innovative deployment of technology. This book demonstrates why strategic planning for information systems is essential to organisational success, especially in times of increasingly rapid change. Over the long term any organisation will get the information systems it deserves, according to the approach adopted to the use and management of IS/IT. To obtain the whole range of benefits available from IS/IT and avoid the potential pitfalls, every organisation must establish the means to manage IS/IT as an integral part of its approach to strategic management. In the six years since the second edition of Strategic Planning for Information Systems, much has changed in the way business is organised and in the importance of IS for competitive strategies. However, the essence of the book remains the same - it is a practical and comprehensive book written in a clear and straightforward way. The new edition introduces more approaches and techniques to aid in developing and implementing strategies - to enable management and IS/IT professionals to identify what needs to be done and how best to do it.Customer Reviews:
A business led approach to Information Systems Planning.......2004-06-24
The introduction of a section on Benefits Managment is particularly useful.
Poorly written........2003-11-21
If I could, I would get my money back because it is definitely not worth $100+. At best, $20.
Apply business consulting technique to IS/IT.......2002-03-21
And you need to know where you are now and where you are going to in order to obtain a really useful strategy. The 3-era-5-stage reference model introduced here is a very powerful tool to position yourself right.
The authors also explored 4 important strategy subject areas for IS/IT: information, application, technology and resource. Which provide useful insight for us.
Rich resource for experienced strategic planners.......2001-09-13
This is not, however, a "how-to" book that describes a coherent strategic planning process. It's a collection of standalone chapters on each key element of strategic planning. The material is presented in sequential order, but no single chapter depends on another. Moreover, there is no smooth continuity between the chapters or a master chapter that ties it all together. That said, this book is valuable from two perspectives:
(1) Each chapter is highly focused and contains a wealth of information on its topic.
(2) Used as a collection of mature techniques this book could be used to support an effective strategic planning process.
The main value is the fact that each element of strategic planning is thoroughly covered. I frequently use this book as a catalog of procedures and techniques for numerous projects, including strategic planning, assessment, process improvement and IS/IT organizational improvement.
If you are seeking a book that shows step-by-step how to perform IS/IT strategic planning you may not like this book. However, if you are an experienced practitioner this book is a wonderful resource to which you'll find yourself frequently referring.
Excellent Reference.......2001-05-08
Each chapter brings a succinct set of guidelines for the strategic planning novice. A lot of work has gone into compiling this book, it is a work which I will reference again and again.
Buy it if you're into this stuff at all, you won't regret it.
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Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Bpg-Other)
Wayne L. Winston Manufacturer: Microsoft Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0735619018 |
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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
Real Good for a textbook........2007-05-12
Not bad, but not as good as expected.......2007-04-13
Excellent.......2007-04-11
Very practical, but full of errors.......2007-04-02
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Marketing Engineering: Computer-Assisted Marketing Analysis and Planning (2nd Edition)
Gary L. Lilien , and Arvind Rangaswamy Manufacturer: Pearson Education ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0130355496 |
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Great Book.......2002-04-06
Great!.......2000-06-23
Excellent educational material, good software and study case.......1999-09-23
Great topics, exciting approaches, but not user friendly.......1999-06-04
A second edition could polish the software and clarify the examples to make this a truly outstanding book.
Interesting Book, Absolutely Lousy Software & Cases.......1999-05-01
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Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management
Claudia Imhoff , Lisa Loftis , and Jonathan G. Geiger Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471319813 |
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Strategies for leveraging information technologies to improve customer relationshipsCustomer Reviews:
Timely, practical and reliable from a recognized CRM expert!.......2001-04-13
A great balance of the technical and business aspects of CRM.......2001-04-12
A good reference but the "CIF" strikes back !.......2001-03-25
In many sense, this is the right book : it provides a broad and knowledgeable overview of the various CRM tools and architecture and how they interact.
The problem is that it goes slightly beyond by replacing Data Warehouse by the "Corporate Information Factory" (CIF) Inmon and Inhoff framework which is anything but cristal clear because it adds the Operational Data Store in the picture without answering the real question : why an ODS rather than process automation through EAI ? The book has a whole chapter on the ODS subject but you do not find a real answer to the "do I need one ?" question
If you have to do a project after, you might want to read "Designing a Data Warehouse : Supporting Customer Relationship Management" by Chris Todman, very similar title but more data modeling and project oriented.
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Data Analysis and Decision Making (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)
S. Christian Albright , Wayne Winston , and Christopher Zappe Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0534421458 |
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The emphasis of the text is on data analysis, modeling, and spreadsheet use in statistics and management science. This text contains professional Excel software add-ins. The authors maintain the elements that have made this text a market leader in its first edition: clarity of writing, a teach-by-example approach, and complete Excel integration.
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Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series)
Roger J. Brown Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0121377512 |
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Fiduciary responsibilities and related court-imposed liabilities have forced investors to assess market conditions beyond gut level, resulting in the development of sophisticated decision-making tools. Roger Brown's use of historical real estate data enables him to develop tools for gauging the impact of circumstances on relative risk. His application of higher level statistical modeling to various aspects of real estate makes this book an essential partner in real estate research. Offering tools to enhance decision-making for consumers and researchers in market economies of any country interested in land use and real estate investment, his book will improve real estate market efficiency. With property the world's biggest asset class, timely data on housing prices just got easier to find and use.Download Description
One long-time problem for investors in residential real estate has been calculating risk. While commercial real estate investors have had access to broad and deep sets of transaction data, those interested in residential buildings have not. The recent availability of private real estate investment data has made possible new empirical risk analysis tools and conclusions. This is the first book to offer a highly mathematical approach to calculating the risks associated with real estate transactions. By means of data sets and intuitive models, Roger Brown shows readers how to frame real estate problems from mathematical and financial perspectives, with exciting and useful results. Non-US readers will find the book valuable because its conclusions are relevant and useful in other markets, and its techniques can be applied to existing data.Customer Reviews:
An Elegant Introduction to Real Estate.......2006-03-01
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Management Decision Making: Spreadsheet Modeling, Analysis, and Applications (with CD-ROM)
George E. Monahan Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521781183 |
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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
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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Statistics, Data Analysis, and Decision Modeling and Student CD (3rd Edition)
James R. Evans Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0131888102 |
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This book covers basic concepts of business statistics, data analysis, and management science in a spreadsheet environment. Practical applications are emphasized throughout the book for business decision-making; a comprehensive database is developed, with marketing, financial, and production data already formatted on Excel worksheets. This shows how real data is used and decisions are made.
Using Excel as the basic software, and including such add-ins as PHStat2, Crystal Ball, and TreePlan, this book covers a wide variety of topics related to business statistics: statistical thinking in business; displaying and summarizing data; random variables; sampling; regression analysis; forecasting; statistical quality control; risk analysis and Monte-Carlo simulation; systems simulation modeling and analysis; selection models and decision analysis; optimization modeling; and solving and analyzing optimization models.
For those employed in the fields of quality control, management science, operations management, statistical science, and those who need to interpret data to make informed business decisions.
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Covers points, but neither in a clear or concise manner........2005-03-18
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Data Warehouse Design Solutions
Christopher Adamson , and Michael Venerable Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 047125195X |
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Data warehouses store millions of records, allowing managers to ask the big-picture questions about their businesses. The authors of Data Warehouse Design Solutions share their expertise in designing successful data warehouses and concentrate on understanding business processes within a variety of industries.First, the authors outline the promise--and potential hurdles--of data warehousing. They thoroughly explain the idea of dimensional data, which is used to represent the quantities or attributes that can be queried in a data warehouse. The authors argue that data warehouses need to adapt to changing business conditions and often must be more flexible than planned. They advise building the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) as a series of interlocking data marts (which contain different dimensions). Developers can build part of a solution and add new data marts later. The result is a more adaptable approach to warehousing data.
The heart of Data Warehouse Design Solutions is the descriptions of data warehouses tailored to specific industries--sales, marketing, fulfillment, production, inventory, and capacity--using real-world businesses. The authors offer business models, sample dimensions, database schema, and sample reports for each business area.
Later chapters discuss more advanced areas for data warehousing, including budget tracking, financial reporting (and managerial accounting), and even how to look at profitability and intellectual capital. The authors round out their nuts-and-bolts tour of today's businesses with a summary of the various measures that fit each type of organization. Finally, the authors come back to theory, with some ideas on building effective systems that are fast and that generate easy-to-read reports. The last chapter argues convincingly that their incremental approach to building data warehousing has some distinct advantages. --Richard Dragan
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"Each chapter is... a practice run for the way we all ought to design our data marts and hence our data warehouses."-Ralph Kimball, from the Foreword.Customer Reviews:
A very good complement to Ralph Kimball books.......2003-03-31
A very good complement to Kimball's books.......2003-03-31
A good handbook on dimensional modeling.......2001-04-04
Excellent Real World models...........2000-01-15
No-Nonsense.......1999-07-01
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