Business Operations Analytics

Code

BUSI2193

School

Nottingham University Business School China

Level

2

Credits

10

Semesters

Spring China

Summary

PRE-REQUISITE

Students must have taken the following modules:

         BUSI2124 Introduction to Management Science of Business Decisions

(Please ignore    Requisites: N/A     below)

This course provides students with an understanding of prescriptive analytics from an operations management perspective. Through this course, students will learn the concept of Operations Management, covering the design and management of processes. As most operations-related problems are complex, optimisation is used to support decision-makers to deal with those problems. This course will incorporate laboratory sessions using optimiser software so students can gain hands-on experience in how to implement mathematical models to get optimal solutions when solving operations-related problems.

Re-assessment format is decided by the school.

Target Students

Year 3 (Part 1) International Business Management students

Classes

• One 2-hour lecture each week for 11 weeks
• One 2-hour laboratory each week for 5 weeks

Assessment

• 40% Coursework 1: One 2500-word group project.
• 60% Exam (Written) (1-hour-30-minute): One 1.5-hr exam.

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

• The management of resources and operations.
• The development, management and exploitation of information systems and their impact upon organizations.
• The comprehensive use of relevant communication and information technologies for application in business and management.
• The development of appropriate business policies and strategies to meet stakeholder needs within a changing environment.
• The scope and importance of operations in business management.
• The chief techniques of business operations management.

Intellectual skills

• Effective quantitative problem solving and decision-making skills.
• The ability to create, evaluate and access a range of options, together with the capacity to apply ideas and knowledge to a range of business and other situations.
• The ability to choose and apply appropriate operations management techniques for the solution of business problems.

Professional practical skills

• Numeracy and quantitative skills including model development, data analysis, interpretation and extrapolation.
• Qualitative skills including the ability to work with case studies.
• The effective use of communication and information technology (CIT) skills for business applications.

Transferable (key) skills

• Effective oral and written communication skills in a range of traditional and electronic media.
• Effective self-management in terms of time, planning and behaviour, motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise.

Conveners

• Dr Lei Liu