Operations Models

Lecture Slides

Part 1 | Part 2

Downloads

Simon Pie

Xer Tech

Related Sites

Moore's web page (select chapter 2 for direct access to ppt slides)

Key Points / Outline

An important element of strategy is having a "model" of how the company plans to make money.  Often spreadsheets are used to develop these models.  We will examine the development of these models and techniques for performing managerial analysis of the model.

• Modeling concepts
• Learning by studying examples
• Student exercises

Digging Deeper

"Data to Knowledge to Results: Building an Analytic Capability" by Thomas Davenport, et al, California Management Review, vol. 43, no. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 117-138.

"Managing the Quality of Quantitative Analysis" by Anirudh Dhebar, Sloan Management Review, Winter 1993, pp. 69-75.

"Why Business Models Matter" by Joan Magretta, Harvard Business Review, May 2002, pp. 86-93.

Article Links

"It's the Business Model, Stupid!" by Geoffrey Colvin, Fortune, January 8, 2001, p. 54.