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Operations Analytics

This Specialization provides an introduction to big data analytics for all business professionals, including those with no prior analytics experience. You'll learn how data analysts describe, predict, and inform business decisions in the specific areas of marketing, human resources, finance, and operations, and you'll develop basic data literacy and an analytic mindset that will help you make strategic decisions based on data. In the final Capstone Project, you'll apply your skills to interpret a real-world data set and make appropriate business strategy recommendations.

Created by: Senthil Veeraraghavan

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Overall Score : 98 / 100

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Course Description

This course is designed to impact the way you think about transforming data into better decisions. Recent extraordinary improvements in data-collecting technologies have changed the way firms make informed and effective business decisions. The course on operations analytics, taught by three of Wharton's leading experts, focuses on how the data can be used to profitably match supply with demand in various business settings. In this course, you will learn how to model future demand uncertainties, how to predict the outcomes of competing policy choices and how to choose the best course of action in the face of risk. The course will introduce frameworks and ideas that provide insights into a spectrum of real-world business challenges, will teach you methods and software available for tackling these challenges quantitatively as well as the issues involved in gathering the relevant data.This course is appropriate for beginners and business professionals with no prior analytics experience.

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Senthil Veeraraghavan researches on the role of Information and Uncertainty in Operations Management, using Theory and Data Analysis. His current research is on operational implications of consumer behavior in queues and services. His research has appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management jounals. In 2013, his paper on Quality Speed Tradeoff issues in health care services won the first award for the Best Operations Paper published in Management Science. Senthil teaches classes on Operations Strategy and Operations Management and recently received 2013 and 2014 Wharton Excellence in Teaching Awards for those courses. Senthil graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and received his Phd from Carnegie Mellon University.

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By Anshul A on 13-Nov-19

quite interesting

By ANUJ G on 13-Nov-19

e courseVery good and informativ

By Shashikant P on 12-Nov-19

Excellent Course.

By Mayur S D on 9-Nov-19

Good course with to the point pedagogy of operations analytics. Experienced professors

By Wayne C on 3-Nov-19

Best Course in this Specialization!

By Naveen K on 1-Nov-19

Course is very well designed, learnt some new concepts and methods in optimization. Also learnt how a data is analysed depending upon the trend and probabilities.

By Mujtaba P on 14-Oct-19

i enjoyed this course

By 彭灿然 on 14-Oct-19

Very practical course!

By Pavlos K on 12-Oct-19

An exceptionally organized course with sufficient examples, it provides an in depth analysis of the concepts introduced (optimization, decision trees, forecasting, simulations) and of the tools used.

By Yang M on 8-Oct-19

Very useful, just wish i had learned this before my Module (Maximize team performance).

By Santanu M on 6-Oct-19

Very concise and insightful

By Gunjal J on 4-Oct-19

It was a very good course which touched upon all the basics and the explanation done by professors is commendable.

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