Excel Basics to Blackbelt

Dr Elliot Bendoly is an Associate Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. Prior to academia he worked as a research engineer for the Intel Corporation. He holds a PhD from Indiana University in the fields of Operations Management and Decision Sciences, with an Information Systems specialization in ERP and Knowledge Management. His research has been published in a wide range of elite academic journals including the Journal of Operations Management, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Production and Operations Management, Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly, among others (full vita at www.bizbreed.com). Dr Bendoly is also the co-editor of Strategic ERP Extension and Use (Stanford University Press, 2005) which complements the 2008 Cambridge University Press text catering to the ramp up of tool-developer skills and the integration of applications such as Map Point, XL State, and RiskOptimizer in Excel for decision support system creation. His current research focuses on operational issues in IT utilization and behavioral dynamics.

Part I. Getting Oriented: 1. Necessary foundations for decision support; 2. The development environment; 3. Getting data - acquisition, linkage and generation; Part II. Harvesting Intelligence: 4. Structuring problems and option visualization; 5. Simplification tactics; 6. The analytics of optimization; 7. Complex optimization; Part III. Leveraging Dynamic Analysis: 8. Controlled simulation analysis; 9. Scenario generation and optimization; 10. Visualizing complex analytical dynamics; Part IV. Advanced Automation and Interfacing: 11. VB editing and code development; 12. Automated application calls; 13. Guided and user-friendly interfaces; Glossary of key terms; Appendix: shortcut (hot key) reference.