GB730 Decision-Making in the High Technology Environment   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: All foundation courses. Emphasizes decision support activities that combine computers, data communications, and decision technologies to facilitate strategic business decisions. Students learn to effectively identify, design, and implement integrated technology solutions to business problems. Previous student projects have been based on the analysis of a wide variety of their own management issues including decisions relating to new ventures, process improvement, new products/services, facility siting, acquisitions, personnel planning, and capital expenditures. Major topics include the scope of decision analysis technologies and their usefulness for improving strategic business decisions, the formulation of objectives, the development of alternatives, multi-objective value analysis, and simulation.