Excel Basics to Blackbelt
An Accelerated Guide to Decision Support Designs
Elliot Bendoly
Excel Basics to Blackbelt, first published in 2008, is intended to serve as an accelerated guide to decision support designs. Its structure is designed to enhance the skills in Excel of those who have never used it for anything but possibly storing phone numbers, enabling them to reach a level of mastery that will allow them to develop user interfaces and automated applications. To accomplish this, the major theme of the text is 'the integration of the basic'; as a result readers will be able to develop decision support tools that are at once highly intuitive from a working-components perspective but also highly significant from the perspective of practical use and distribution. Applications integration discussed includes the use of MS MapPoint, XLStat and RISKOptimizer, as well as how to leverage Excel's iteration mode, web queries, visual basic code, and interface development. There are ample examples throughout the text.
'There's nothing else out there that covers the full potential of Excel in the way that this text does. It's easy to read even if you're a novice to graphical decision support tool development, but it has gems that I doubt even some of the most advanced developers are even aware of. The presentation of various approaches to leveraging Excel with other applications such as MS MapPoint, XLStat and RISKOptimizer is particularly valuable. Similarly eye-opening are the unique tactics Bendoly presents for capitalizing on many of the built-in but underutilized capabilities of Excel. The application examples provided serve as the building blocks for a whole universe of DSS development now made accessible to readers at all levels. This book should become a standard reference for analysts and consultants regardless of industry.' Daniel Bachrach, University of Alabama
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.
- Published: September 2008 Cambridge University Press
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521889056
- length: 333 pages
- contains 276 b/w illus. 21 tables
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 21 mm
- Used, very good condition