Instructions for Application Report Narrated PowerPoints (12/6)
Project (Application Report): The goal of this final project is to gain an in-depth appreciation for the issues involved in successful application of Business Modeling and Analysis, sometimes called Management Science. Although Management Science is based on mathematical modeling, similar to what we will do in this class using Excel, successful implementation of a project requires considerations far beyond good mathematical modeling. This project will be done individually.
The project will consist of a PowerPoint file (if you wish to present “live”) or a narrated Power Point file (if you wish the professor to “play” your presentation in class) on an application of Management Science (maximum length of narration 10 minutes), similar to the presentations of the Edelman Prize finalist contestants. One of the examples of an excellent Edelman presentation is UPS (that you will already have viewed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqIuXB_Qug
This file will be placed in the appropriate dropbox of ecampus with a deadline of Wednesday, December 6 at 11:59 pm.
Each presentation (which should assume that your audience has no background in the area) will cover the following areas:
Business background of the company or organization,
General context of the issue(s) addressed by this Management Science application,
An overview of the analytical techniques used and their similarity to analytical techniques covered in class,
Cultural, organizational, implementation, acceptance, and internal sales related problems,
A summary of the impact of the work with an convincing explanation, and
A discussion of whether this work might be applied to other situations.
You may select your application, which may be (but is not required to be) the work of a past Edelman finalist. It may be any application for which you can obtain the relevant information. A large quantity of past work is available in the link below. The library can help you obtain a copy
of the paper, but may take some time to do so. If you want a copy of the paper, I advise that you contact the library as soon as you have registered a topic. Your presentation should not use verbatim material from the finalist presentation or paper, and should include additional material not mentioned in either the paper or presentation. The link to the site that has a lot of potential applications is:
https://pubsonline.informs.org/action/doSearch?SeriesKey=inte&sortBy=downloaded_desc
Not all of the above are appropriate.
Once you have chosen your topic, you must register your selection in the discussion area entitled “December 6 Narrated PowerPoints Subject Registration.” No duplications allowed. It is your responsibility to check all responses at the time you register to avoid a duplication.