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QTDM, Course Outline 2016
QTDM, Course Outline 2016
QTDM, Course Outline 2016
August-November (2014)
XPGDM-2016-17 (Term-II)
Faculty
: aksingh@imi.edu
: 210
Consulting Hours
: Thursday, 3.30-5.30
Objectives:
To understand how formal modelling can help in reaching better decisions, with
special reference to various managerial functions
To expose the participants to various decision situations commonly faced and to help
them understand how to structure the decision problems as well as to obtain good
solution for the same.
Text Book :
Supplementary Text:
Pedagogy
Pedagogy would be a combination of lectures, case studies and problem solving. Lecture
classes shall be discussion based and students are expected to read the relevant chapters from
the book and any other reading material provided before they come to the class. Case studies
will be discussed which will help in understanding Quantitative techniques in actual work
situations. Numerical problems are essential for this course. The course will be taught as per
the session plan given in this document. Students are expected to participate in the class
discussions.
Evaluation criteria
Quizzes (2)
: 30%
: 40%
Project
: 30%
______
: 100%
TOTAL
Project
As part of the evaluation, students are required to do a project which shall involve study of
real life application. Maximum 5 students can form a group for project. The students should
apply any of the techniques or the tools covered during the course. This study can either be
done for a services or a manufacturing organization. Preferably, students must visit the
organization and collect first hand information. If this is not possible, desk research may be
done. If actual data for some variable is difficult to get, students may assume some realistic
value of the same. Students must be able to do a critical analysis of the result generated. At
the end of the term, students are required to make a presentation on the project. Each member
of the group is expected to speak in the presentation. Presentations shall be evaluated for:
content/analysis, presentation style and communication, and response to questions.
Session
No.
1,2
3,4
5,6
7,8
9,10
Topic
Readings*
* Some additional reading materials may also be given during the course for better
understanding of the subject.
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