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Postgraduate Course: Performance Analytics with DEA: Advanced Concepts and Methods (CMSE11425)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course builds on the concepts and methods taught in 'Performance Analytics with DEA: Basic Concepts and Method' to cover more advanced concepts and methods; namely, dynamic, network, and dynamic-network DEA models and their use in business applications.
Course description Academic Description:
This is an option course for the MSc in Business Analytics programme. It builds on the concepts and methods taught in 'Performance Analytics with DEA: Basic Concepts and Method' to cover more advanced concepts and methods; namely, dynamic, network, and dynamic-network DEA models and their use in business applications. These models and corresponding solution methods complement the static black-box analyses to provide the modelling frameworks and solution methods which are more appropriate for dynamic analyses, network analyses, and dynamic-network analyses to allow the analyst to take the time dynamics into account and to open the black-box of DEA to account for differences in performance of processes.

Outline Content:
1. Dynamic DEA models and their use in business applications
2. Network DEA models and their use in business applications
3. Dynamic-Network DEA models and their use in business applications
4. Practical issues and how to address them

Student Learning Experience:
Weekly lectures and hands-on programming exercises in Matlab and DEA solvers which enables students to implement the methodologies covered in class.

Tutorial/seminar hours represent the minimum total live hours - online or in-person - a student can expect to receive on this course. These hours may be delivered in tutorial/seminar, lecture, workshop or other interactive whole class or small group format. These live hours may be supplemented by pre-recorded lecture material for students to engage with asynchronously.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites Students MUST also take: Performance Analytics with DEA: Basic Concepts and Methods (CMSE11424)
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements For MSc Business Analytics students, or by permission of course organiser. Please contact the course secretary.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Discuss the advanced concept and methods of performance measurement, evaluation, and management using the proper terminology
  2. Identify and properly state performance problems in different business settings
  3. Address performance problems within a DEA framework and choose the right advanced DEA models to devise solutions
  4. Formulate managerial guidelines in the area of performance management and make recommendations based on advanced DEA analyses
  5. Communicate performance problems and advanced solutions effectively and efficiently to a critical audience
Learning Resources
Cooper WW, Seiford LM and Tone K. (2007) Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software. Second Edition. Springer

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Communication, ICT, and Numeracy Skills

After completing this course, students should be able to:

Critically evaluate and present digital and other sources, research methods, data and information; discern their limitations, accuracy, validity, reliability and suitability; and apply responsibly in a wide variety of organisational contexts.

Cognitive Skills

After completing this course, students should be able to:

Be self-motivated; curious; show initiative; set, achieve and surpass goals; as well as demonstrating adaptability, capable of handling complexity and ambiguity, with a willingness to learn; as well as being able to
demonstrate the use digital and other tools to carry out tasks effectively, productively, and with attention to quality.

Knowledge and Understanding

After completing this course, students should be able to:

Demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of contemporary organisational disciplines; comprehend the role of business within the contemporary world; and critically evaluate and synthesise primary
and secondary research and sources of evidence in order to make, and present, well informed and transparent organisation-related decisions, which have a positive global impact.

Identify, define and analyse theoretical and applied business and management problems, and develop approaches, informed by an understanding of appropriate quantitative and/or qualitative techniques, to explore and solve them responsibly.
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Contacts
Course organiserProf Jamal Ouenniche
Tel: (0131 6)50 3792
Email: Jamal.Ouenniche@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Ewan Henderson
Tel:
Email: ehende2@ed.ac.uk
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