Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Management Science by Cliff T. Ragsdale’s is one of the spreadsheet modeling text books we recently found. We are delighted to add it to current spreadsheet modeling programs and our list of recommended text books for operational management.

 

Spreadsheets are everywhere! Almost all computers come equipped with spreadsheets. People everywhere knowingly or unknowingly create spreadsheet models to make decisions or perform analysis. Businesses in particular rely extensively on spreadsheets for a wide variety of work. Spreadsheet modeling skills has become an essential skill on a person's resume.

 

Graduate Tutor offers a wide array of tutoring options for business executives and MBA students to develop their spreadsheet modeling and decision analysis skills. You can get online tutoring in:

 

Introductory Spreadsheet Modeling Using Microsoft Excel

Intermediate Spreadsheet Modeling Using Microsoft Excel

Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling Using Microsoft Excel

Financial Modeling Using Microsoft Excel

Operational Modeling Using Microsoft Excel

Simulation Modeling Using Crystal Ball Software

 

'Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Management Science' Text book by Cliff T. Ragsdale

 

Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Management Science by Cliff T. Ragsdale’s is one of the more popular advanced spreadsheet modeling and/or operations research texts among MBA, graduate and undergraduate students.

 

Into its 5th edition, this Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis text written by Cliff T. Ragsdale is an in-depth look into various techniques and tools used by professional operations managers, consultants and strategists. 

 

Graduate Tutor's Statistics Tutor Group provides live online tutoring for Cliff T. Ragsdale’s Operations Management text ‘Spread Sheet Modeling & Decision Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Management Science’. Our Statistics Tutor Group typically uses the 5th edition of Ragsdale’s text to tutor operations management students at the MBA or graduate school level.  Please email us if you use another operations management or operations research text book and we will be happy to work with your text book.

 

Cliff T. Ragsdale

 

Professor Ragsdale is Bank of America Professor of Business Information Technology. Professor Cliff T. Ragsdale earned his Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Technology from the University of Georgia and M.B.A. in Finance and B.A. in Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Mr. Ragsdale’s research interest include applications of quantitative modeling techniques to managerial decision making problems and has worked as a financial, statistical and information systems consultant for General Mills and the public accounting firm of Deloitte and Touche.

 

Other Operations Research / Management /Spreadsheet Modeling text books

 

Other Operations Research / Management /Spreadsheet Modeling text books that we use at the graduate and undergraduate level include 'Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications:  Essentials of Practical Management Science' by SC Albright and WL Winston. Please email us if you use another Operations Research / Management /Spreadsheet Modeling text book and we will be willing to work with your choice of text book.

 

The content covered by Prof. Ragsdale’s ‘Spread Sheet Modeling & Decision Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Management Science’ text book include: 

 

Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis

Introduction to Optimization and Linear Programming using microsoft excel

Modeling and Solving LP Problems in a Spreadsheet

Sensitivity Analysis and the Simplex Method

Network Modeling in a spreadsheet

Integer Linear Programming in a spreadsheet

Goal Programming and Multiple Objective Optimization in a spreadsheet

Nonlinear Programming & Evolutionary Optimization

Simple Linear Regression Analysis

Multiple Regression Analysis

Discriminant Analysis

Time series Forecasting

Introduction to Simulation Using Crystal Ball

Queuing Theory

Project Management

Decision Analysis using spreadsheets