Render provides a modern, Excel-Based, and thoroughly Canadian introduction to management science concepts and techniques.
This second edition has more fully integrated Canadian content than before and continues to be a perfect balance between decision modeling and the use of spreadsheets to set up and solve modeling problems.
Knowing the right tools to use and how to implement them is crucial in making sound business decisions.
Managerial Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets, Second Canadian Edition, will help you develop the essential skills required to make effective business decisions in complex situations.
What's New in the Second Canadian Edition?
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Increased Quantity and Range of End-of-Chapter Exercises and Problems— Many of these exercises and problems include multi-part questions, providing a richer pool of questions from which to select, and making them better suited to a computer-based solution environment.
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Inclusion of Several New Decision Models—Now includes coverage of new decision models such as make-buy problems and allocation problems (in Linear Programming), min-max and max-min problems (in Network Models), set covering problems (in Binary Integer Programming), and additive decomposition problems (in Forecasting).
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Expanded Discussions in the Following Topical Areas—Simulation, Regression, LP Formulation, Integer and Nonlinear Programming, and Utility Theory.
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Brand New Managerial Application Case Studies
Every NEW copy of this textbook is packaged with a CD-ROM containing software essential for your success in this course:
- Premium Solver for Education
- Crystal Ball Professional
- TreePlan
- ExcelModules