Pearson FT Press, 2014. – 400 p. – ISBN: 978-0133760354.
Master decision modeling and analytics through realistic examples, intuitive explanations, and tested Excel templates. Business Analytics with Management Science has been designed to help students, practitioners and managers use business analytics to improve decision-making systems. Unlike previous books, it emphasizes the application of practical management science techniques in business analytics.
Drawing on 20+ years of teaching and consulting experience, Dr. Arben Asllani introduces decision analytics through realistic examples and intuitive explanations – not complex formulae and theoretical definitions. Throughout, Asllani helps practitioners focus more on the crucial input-output aspects of decision making – and less upon internal model complexities that can usually be "delegated" to software.
Arben Asllani is Marvin E. White Professor of Business Analytics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has an M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a B.S. degree from the University of Tirana, Albania. Dr. Asllani has been a member of the Decision Sciences Institute since 1997 and has joined several other traditional and online academic and practitioner-oriented conferences and organizations. He has won several faculty teaching and research awards and is a member of Alpha Honor Society at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dr. Asllani is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Business Research and serves on the editorial board of Service Business. Dr. Asllani has published more than 36 articles in journals including Omega, Transfusion, European Journal of Operational Research, Knowledge Management, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, and Service Business: An International Journal. He has also published and presented over 30 research papers at academic conferences.
Dr. Asllani has a broad expertise in business analytics, especially in optimization techniques and computer-based simulations. He has served as a consultant and trainer to a variety of business and government agencies. Dr. Asllani has also taught extensively in management science, business analytics, and information systems courses, and has played an important role in developing business analytics programs in the United States and abroad.