Decision school training courses in Baton Rouge, LA (public, in-house or online)

The Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences MS Program now offers a new concentration in business analytics, business intelligence, and related IT skills. This program consists of 36 hours of coursework taken over a 10-month period from August to May. Additionally, the program emphasizes analyzing real-world large datasets, working on multiple teams, and presentation skills, which includes state-of-the-art visualization techniques.

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Today’s business environment is complex, technology oriented, and information intensive. Information technology enables organizations to conduct business in radically different and more effective ways. As a result, there is a growing demand for MBA graduates who have technical and analytical skills, who can manage technical projects and teams, and who can manage information so that it provides a strategic competitive advantage.

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Applied Managerial Statistics stresses the practical use of statistics in collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. Areas covered include descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, regression analysis, and time series analysis. Attention is devoted to the use of statistical thinking in improving the managerial decision making process.

This course focuses on the use and application of information systems to support the decision-making process. Knowledge-based systems, neural networks, expert systems, electronic meeting systems, group systems and web-based systems are discussed as a basis for designing and developing highly effective decision support systems. Data models, interactive processes, knowledge-based approaches and integration with database systems are also described. Theoretical concepts are applied to real-world app...

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The course examines intermediate-level price theory and surveys applications to public sector decision making. Topics include demand, supply, behavior of the market, and introductory welfare economics. Applications include forecasting, benefit-cost analysis, input-output analysis, and economic modeling.