Quantitative Methods For Decision Makers Book and Disk - Softcover

Wisniewski, Mik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273624040 ISBN 13: 9780273624042

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

The second edition of this text provides the reader with a detailed understanding of both the role and purpose of quantitative techniques in effective management and in the process of managerial decision making.
Focusing on the practical uses of the techniques, the text encompasses a mixture of quantitative methods including data presentation and analysis techniques and basic operational research models. The author focuses on specific quantitative skills development and provides the manager with a detailed overview of how
such techniques fit into the wider management process.
A real-life case study appears at the end of each chapter along with a fully worked exam-style example. Solutions to student activities appear at the end of the text.

About this title

From the Back Cover

As a manager, developing a good understanding of the business analysis techniques at your disposal is crucial. Knowing how and when to use them and what their results really mean can be the difference between making a good or bad decision and, ultimately, between business success and failure.

Quantitative Methods for Decision Makers covers everything you need to know for an introductory quantitative methods course. Relating techniques directly to real-life business decisions in private and public sector organisations, it is particularly well-suited to MBA students who will be applying quantitative methods in day-to-day managerial decision-making.

Thoroughly revised and with an ever-more reader-friendly design in this fifth edition, key features of the book include:

• Student Activities with a solutions Appendix
• Fully worked examples and exercises supported by Excel data sets
• “QMDM in Action” case studies illustrating how real-life organisations benefit from the use of quantitative techniques
• A chapter on financial decision-making

 

A companion website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/wisniewski provides data sets and (for Instructors only) fully-worked solutions for the Exercises in the book.

Wisniewski makes numerical and statistical concepts understandable and brings them to life using excellent scenarios and case studies. This book was a valuable resource during my MBA studies and I am encouraging all my non-statistical colleagues and anyone who works with statistics or performance measurement data to read this book! - Brian J Pickett, Assistant Director, Local Government Data Unit, Wales

Mik Wisniewski is Senior Research Fellow at Strathclyde Business School in Scotland. He also works as a freelance management consultant with clients including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, ScottishPower and Shell, and a variety of public sector organisations in the UK and internationally.

 

About the Author

Senior Manager, Accounts Commission for Scotland

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273624040
• ISBN 13: 9780273624042
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 576