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MBA Business Analytics IBM
MBA Business Analytics IBM
ANALYTICS
Vels University MBA Program Outcomes
The following outcomes have been identified by the School of Management and commerce,
Faculty Council, as important for students to be able to perform at the conclusion of the MBA
program. The MBA curriculum has been mapped to these outcomes, which are regularly
assessed to identify levels of student achievement and areas of improvement. Students who are
Graduates of the Master of Business Administration degree program will be able to:
2. Evaluate the systems and processes used in an organization including the planning, decision-
making, group dynamics, innovation, production, supply chain, operations, technologies,
marketing and distribution management.
3. Design alternatives to solve business problems utilizing quantitative analysis, critical thinking
and sound ethical decision making.
5. Use research based knowledge and methods including company analysis, primary and
secondary data collection, analysis and interpretation of data to find solution to business
problems
6. Interpret data using latest data analytics tools to address organisational problems
7. Organize and critically apply the concepts and methods of business analytics
8. Assess decision problems and build models for creating solutions using business analytical
tools
9. Communicate effectively in various forms by effective use of recent technology and logical
reasoning for presentations, documentation, report writing, manual preparation.
10. Adapt life-long learning and professional development to enrich knowledge and
competencies
12. Demonstrate a global outlook with ability to identify aspects of the global business
operations.
Program Specific Outcomes – MBA Business Analytics
PSO2. To anticipate needs and the analytical perspective provides clearer insights through data
visualization and the data gathered is vital for statistical analysis, which in turn is
PSO3. The strategic perspective focuses on the holistic impact of the initiative. It’s the most
PSO4. The Competitive advantage of analytics is multi-disciplinary activity: the value from
insight comes not from the activity but from the execution, A business intelligence (BI)
and analytics strategy empowers with the right information at the right time.
PSO5 The Advanced analytics tools enable deeper insights and discovery that will challenge
business assumptions using data can help companies save thousands of pounds, improve
their procurement efficiency, develop their marketing strategies, support business growth
Dr.K.S.Meenakshisundaram,
1. Director, Chairperson
Vels University,Chennai-600117
Dr.R.Thenmozhi,
Mr.K.V.V.Giri
Mrs.Sripriya,
4.
Operations Programme Manager, TCS Alumni
Dr.S.Vasantha ,
Vels University,Chennai-600117
Dr.S.Preetha,
Associate Professor,
Internal Member
6. School of Management Studies,
Vels University,Chennai-600117
Dr.G.Rajini
Vels University,Chennai-600117
Dr.P.Shalini
Vels University,Chennai-600117
Dr.P.G.Thirumagal
Assistant Professor,
9. Internal Member
School of Management Studies,
Vels University,Chennai-600117
Dr.Madhumita.G
Vels University,Chennai-600117
MBA
BUSINESS ANALYTICS
Department of M.B.A
School of Management Studies
MBA - BUSINESS ANALYTICS
CURRICULUM
SEMESTER I Total no of Credits: 90
Hour / Week
Code Course Credits
Lecture Tutorial Practical
16CMBN12
Macro Economics in Global Economy 4 0 0 3
16CMBN13
Financial Analysis and Reporting 3 0 0 3
16CMBN14
Organizational Behavior 3 0 0 3
16CMBN15
Accounting for Managers 3 1 0 4
16CMBN16
Research Methodology 3 0 0 3
16CMBN17
Business Communication & Soft skills 3 0 0 3
24 2 4 29
SEMESTER II
Hour / Week
Code Course Credits
Lecture Tutorial Practical
16CMBN22 Econometrics 3 1 0 4
18 2 6 23
SEMESTER III
Hour / Week
Code Course Credits
Lecture Tutorial Practical
4 0 2 14
List of Discipline Specific Elective (DSE)
S.No Subject Code Subjects
1 16DMBN34 SAP FICO
2 16DMBN35 SAP SD
3 16DMBN36 SAP MM
4 16DMBN37 SAP HCM
5 16DMBN38 Stochastic Modeling
6 16DMBN39 Simulation Modeling
7 16DMBN40 Healthcare Analytics
8 16DMBN41 Social and Web Analytics
9 16DMBN42 R Programming
10 16DMBN43 HR Analytics
11 16DMBN31 Operations and Supply Chain Analytics
Course Objective:
The basic aim of this course is to impart knowledge of basic statistical tools & techniques
with emphasis on their application in Business decision process and Management.
Statistical analysis informs the judgment of the ultimate decision-maker—rather than
replaces it—some key conceptual underpinnings of statistical analysis will be covered to
insure the understandability of its proper usage.
Course Outcomes:
CO-1: To facilitate objective solutions in business decision making under subjective
conditions.
CO-2: To enhance knowledge in probability theory
CO-3: To understand normality and its distribution concepts.
CO-4: To stress the need for collection of data and its dispersion techniques.
CO-5: To apply time series analysis in market prediction rates.
CO-6: To draw conclusions over the hypothetical situations.
CO-7: To determine the relationship between dependent and independent variables.
CO-8: To measure the trend setting factors for projection of sales and demand curves.
CO-9: To extract the variance among the factors of study concerned.
CO-10: To classify the distribution of data spread.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 12
Introduction to Statistics - Collection of Data - Measures of Central Tendency & Dispersion in
Frequency Distribution
UNIT II PROBABILITY THEORY 12
Probability Theory– Addition, Multiplication &Baye’sTheorem.Test for Normality.Skewness&
Kurtosis
UNIT III CORRELATION 12
Correlation-Karl Pearsons and Rank Correlation.Regression(linear)
UNIT IV HYPOTHESIS TESTING 12
Hypothesis Testing –Test for Single Mean& Two Mean– Chi-Square test,F test – ANOVA.
UNIT V TESTS 12
Index Nos-Unweighted and Weighted-Test of Consistency.Time Series Analysis-Measurement
of Secular Trend
Total – 60 H
Text Books:
1. R.S.N. Pillai, V. Bagavathi,” Statistics”,S.Chand Limited, 7th Ed,2008
2. N.D. Vohra, “Business Statistics”, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2nd Ed,2013
3. G. V. Shenoy, Uma K. Srivastava, S. C. Sharma,” Business Statistics”, New Age
International,2nd Ed, 2005
4. Beri,”Business Statistics”TataMcGraw Hill,2nd Ed,2009
References:
1. Keller. G,”Statistics for Management”, Cengage Learning, 1st Ed, 2009.
2. J. K Sharma, “Business Statistics”,Pearson, 2nd Ed,2010.
3. Arora PN &others,”Complete Statistical Methods”, S. Chand, 3rd Ed, 2010
16CMBN12MACRO ECONOMICS IN GLOBAL ECONOMY 4 0 0 3
Course Outcome:
Co-1:Analyze the changes in the macro economic indicators
Co-2:Build the economic policy suitable for the open and closed economy.
Co-3:Suggest a feasible solution for the inflationary situation.
Co-4:Estimate the macroeconomic indicators
Co-5:Distinguish the fixed and floating exchange rates
Unit I 12
Macro Economics and Global Economy – Globalization – Features – Advantages and
Disadvantages – Globalization and Stability of the International Financial System
Unit II 12
National Income – Real and Nominal GDP – Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression-
Price and Inflation – Meaning – Types – Effects – the ASAD Model – Cost Push and Demand
Pull Inflation and Inflation as a Monetary Phenomenon – Effects of Inflation – Controlling
Inflation – Anti-inflationary Measures
Unit III 12
Macroeconomic Policies – Objectives – Limitations – Macro Economic Policies in Open and
Closed Economies – Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Open and Closed Economy – Migration –
Globalization – Labour Market
Unit IV 12
Money - Demand for Financial Assets – Asset Market Equilibrium – Liquidity Preference
Theory- Liquidity Trap – The ECB – Monetary Base – Controlling of Money Supply – Open
Market Operations – German Hyper Inflation – Inflation and Open Economy – IS and LM Curve
in Closed and Open Economy
Unit V 12
Exchange Rate – Purchasing Power Parity Theory – Foreign Exchange Market – Fixed, Variable
Floating Rates – Inter-dependence in Exchange Market
Total – 60 h
REFERENCE BOOKS:
M.L. JHINGAN – MACRO ECONOMICS
S. SANKARAN – MACRO ECONOMICS
16CMBN13 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND REPORTING 3003
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The objective of the course is to provide students with hands on experience in financial
statement analysis.
Students will be exposed to general tools of financial analysis, theoretical concepts,
and practical valuation issues.
Students should be comfortable with using firm’s financial statements to develop
understanding of their performance and to establish basis for making reasonable
evaluation estimates.
Course Outcomes:
CO1 - Describes and apply the basic techniques of financial statement analysis
CO2 - Explain the relationship between strategic business analysis, accounting analysis
and financial analysis;
CO3 - Identify and utilise value-relevant information contained within financial
statements;
CO4 - Recognise and explain the fundamental role of accounting numbers in the
valuation of entities and the key financial claims on these entities assets (equity and debt
securities);
CO5 - Understand the impact of financial reporting choices on the usefulness of reported
earnings to predict future performance;
CO6 - Prepare a written analysis of a listed company, which incorporates and synthesises
the strategic, accounting and financing techniques covered in the course;
CO7 - Conduct applied business research (including locating, critically interpreting and
evaluating firm-specific financial information);
CO8 – Analyse the ratios for M & A and restructuring.
CO9 – Forecast the future trend through time series analysis
CO10 – Apply the knowledge to compare GAAP and IFRS.
REFERENCES
M Y Khan and P H Jain, “ Management accounting, McGraw hill, 5th edition
Palepu Healy and Bernard, : Business analysis & valuation, South western college
publication, 2nd edition
Raghu Palat, “ Fundamental analysis for investors” ,
16CMBN14 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 3003
Course Objective:
• To introduce students to theories and concepts of organizational behavior, increase
knowledge and understanding of organizational behavior terminology and main concepts.
• To develop students’ skills in organizational behavior analysis, by providing practice in
assessing organizational behavior problems.
• To acquaint the student with the determinants of intra -individual, inter-personnel and
inter group behaviour in organisational setting and to equip them with behavioural skills
in managing people at work.
Course Outcome:
• CO – 1: To define organization and classify the contributing disciplines, approaches to
OB.
• CO – 2: To clearly understand challenges and opportunities for OB.
• CO –3: To acquire knowledge in applying motivational theories to resolve problems of
employee absenteeism, turnover, stress, job satisfaction, job performance and
organizational commitment.
• CO – 4: To acquire abilities and in identifying why effective communication systems are
particularly important in a pluralistic, multicultural workforce).
• CO – 5: To analyses the behaviour of individuals and groups in organization’s in terms of
the key factors that influence organisationalbehaviour.
• C0 – 6: To have a better comprehend of how organizations function, how individuals
behave within organizations and how to manage interactions in the workplace.
• CO – 7: To obtain knowledge on organizational factors affecting teams, recognize
organizational cultures in which groups function).
• CO –8: To assess the potential effects of organisational‐level factors (such as Power,
politics. Organisational culture, climate, change and organisational development on
organisationalbehaviour.
• CO –9: To discover how transactional analysis can help people manage complex
organizations.
• CO –10: To develop skills in handling stress and also identify the different form of
stress).
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 12
Introduction to OrganisationalBehaviour – Meaning- Definitions- Contributing disciplines to
OB. Approaches to OB. OB model. Challenges and opportunities for OB.Personality and its
types and traits. Learning – classical conditioning, operant conditioning, Social Learning.
Text Books:
1. Robbins, Judge &Vohra, 14th Edition, OrganisationalBehaviour, Pearson/PHI,2012
2. Aswathappa, K., OrganisationBehaviour, Himalaya Publishing House, New Delhi,2006
References:
1. UdaiPareek , Understanding OrganisationalBehaviour, Oxford University Press,2004
2. LaurieJMullins, Management & Organizational Behavior, 7ed. Pearson Education, 2006.
3. Curtis W. Cook and Phillip L. Hunsaker, Management and OrganisationalBehaviour,
McGraw-Hill Irwin Publication, 2006.
4. Robin Finchem and Peter Rhodes, Principles of OrganisationalBehaviour, Oxford University
Press., 2006.
5. Luthans, Fred, Organizational Behaviour, McGraw-Hill, New York,2005
16CMBN15 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS 3104
Course Objective:
• To make the learners familiar with various basic financial costing concepts.
• This course aims to convey sufficient knowledge for an adequate interpretation, analysis
and use the information provided by financial accounting.
Course Outcome:
CO – 1: To be well versed with accounting concepts
CO – 2: To know about the different capital budgeting techniques for decision making
purposes in accounting.
CO – 3: To analyze the different elements in a cost sheet.
CO – 4: To gain knowledge on different kinds of budgets and its preparation.
CO – 5: To clearly understand the ratio analysis techniques.
CO – 6: To gain knowledge on financial and operating leverages.
CO – 7:To be well versed in double entry system of accounting.
CO – 8: To gain a wide knowledge on various financial statement analyses.
CO – 9:To have diverse knowledge on working capital concepts.
CO – 10: to analyze on different capital budgeting decisions.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 12
Introduction to Accounting – Classification of accounting – Accounting concepts and
conventions – Balance sheet and profit and loss account concepts – Accounting cycle- Financial
statement analysis –- Comparative balance sheet and profit & loss A/c & , common size balance
sheet and profit & loss A/c and Trend analysis. (No final accounts preparation)
UNIT V BUDGETS 12
Budgeting – Different types of budgeting – Cash budget – Flexible budget-.Marginal costing –
Cost Volume Profit analysis – Break Even analysis – Applications of marginal costing
Case Study:
Financial statement analysis
Break Even Analysis
Fund Flow statement
Ratio analysis
Capital budgeting problems 14 Total – 60 H
Text Books:
1. R.S.N.Pillai&Bagavathi – Management Accounting, S.Chand& Co. Ltd., New Delhi, 6TH
edition 2002.
2. T.S.Reddy&Y.Hari Prasad Reddy – Financial and Management Accounting, Margham
publications, 12TH edition 2004.
References:
1. M.Y.Khan&P.K.Jain – Management Accounting, Tata McGraw Hill publishing company Ltd.,
10th edition 2004.
2. R.Narayanaswamy – Financial accounting – A Managerial Perspective, Prentice Hall India
Ltd., New Delhi 5th edition, 2014.
3. Paresh Shah Basic Financial Accounting for Management, Oxford Publications, 3rd edition,
2007
16CMBN16 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3003
Course Objective:
The objective of this course is to develop a research orientation
among the students and to acquaint them with fundamentals of research methods.
To have a knowledge about research and how research is
conducted.
The data collection methods the sampling methods and the data
analysis are introduced to do research objectively and systematically.
To create awareness about the importance of research in all fields.
Course Outcome:
CO-1: To obtain knowledge on various kinds of research questions and research design
CO-2:To understand qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research, as well as relevant
ethical and philosophical consideration
CO-3: To design a good quantitative purpose statement and good quantitative research
questions and hypotheses
CO-4: To familiar with good practices in conducting a qualitative interview and observation.
CO-5:To understand how to distinguish between a population and a sample and to determine the
sample size
CO-6: To know the various types of quantitative sampling techniques and conditions to use.
CO-7: To understand the various steps involved in coding qualitative data.
CO-8: To get practical exposure on application of various statistical tools to test the hypothesis
& drawing inferences
CO-9: To obtain knowledge on writing different types of report
CO-10: To develop independent thinking for critically analysing research reports.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 12
Introduction to Research – Business & Management Research – Research Characteristics –
Research Approaches – Types of Research – Research as Process and Strategy – Applied &
Basic Research Process – Problem Identification - Theoretical Framework/’Literature Survey –
Scope and Course Objectives : – Research Design – Hypothesis Development – Hypothesis
Testing – Exploratory Descriptive Studies – Cross Sectional & longitudinal studies.
UNIT V REPORT 12
Introduction - Purpose of a Written Report – Basics of a Written Report – Types – Important
Parts – Title, Table of Contents – Synopsis, bibliography - Introductory Section – Research
Design - Result Section – Recommendation & Implementation Section.
Total – 60 H
Text Book:
1. Donald R. Cooper, Pamela S. Schindler and J K Sharma, Business Research methods, 11th
Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2012.
References:
1. Alan Bryman and Emma Bell, Business Research methods, 3rd Edition, Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, 2011.
2. Uma Sekaran and Roger Bougie, Research methods for Business, 5th Edition, Wiley India,
New Delhi, 2012.
3. William G Zikmund, Barry J Babin, Jon C.Carr, AtanuAdhikari,Mitch Griffin, Business
Research methods, A South Asian Perspective, 8th Edition, Cengage Learning, New Delhi, 2012.
16CMBN17 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION & SOFT SKILLS3 0 0 3
Course Objective:
This course is designed to develop business communication skills of students by
improving their speaking, listening and writing skills.
The course is activity oriented and provides exposure to real world communication by
presenting various real world business communication challenges in class-room structure
Course Outcome:
CO1 - To understand the basics of communication and its process ,elements and importance.
CO2 – To learn the various barriers in the communication.
CO3 – To learn the listening skills and the characteristics of good and poor listeners
CO4 – To know the various types of listening ,its approaches and barriers.
CO5 -To know the effectiveness of oralcommunication and its application in group
presentation.
CO6 – To develop the presentation skills and learning to organize and structuring a
presentation using visual aids
CO7 – To Know the importance, techniques &types of reading and its factors.
CO8 – To learn the skills of writing business correspondence ,various qualities and parts.
CO9 – To learn the art of report preparation and writing various types of letters.
C10 – To know the various types of Non – Verbal skills and its application for effective
communication.
UNIT II LISTENING 12
Hearing v/s listening, how to shift from “hearing” to “listening”?, a listener or not?,
characteristics of good and poor listeners, causes of poor listening, listening as a business tool,
listening for fact v/s listening for overall comprehension, kinds of listening, kinds of listening,
approaches to listening, barriers to effective listening
References:
1. Francis Soundararaj, “Speaking and Writing for Effective Business Communication,
MacMillan Publication, 2009.
2. Madhukar, “Business Communication”, Vikas Publishing House, 2009
3. UrmilaRai, “Business Communication”, Himalaya Publishing house, 2008
4. McGraith – Basic Managerial Skills for all Prentice Hall of India – 6th Edition 2002.
16PMBN11 DATABASE MANAGEMENT & SQL (PRACTICAL) 0 0 2 1
Course outcomes:
Co-1:To understand the basic concepts and applications of Database management
Co-2: To define the terminology, features, classifications, and characteristics embodied in
database systems.
Co-3: To analyze an information storage problem and derive an information model expressed
in the form of an entity relation diagram and other optional analysis forms, such as a data
dictionary.
Co-4: To learn the basics of SQL and construct queries using SQL.
Co-5: To understand the query evaluation techniques and query optimization
Co-6: To design and develop the database application systems
Co-7: To be familiar with basic database storage structures and access techniques.
Co-8: To demonstrate an understanding of the relational data model.
Co-9: To formulate using SQL solutions to a broad range of query and data update problems.
Co-10:To use an SQL interface of a multi-user relational DBMS package to create, secure,
populate, maintain, and query a database.
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS
1. DDL and DML Commands.
2. Join Queries.
3. Views and Set operations.
4. Built in functions.
5. Nested Queries.
6. Triggers.
7. Aggregate Functions.
8. Roles and Privileges.
9. Cursors.
10. PL/SQL programs.
11. PL/SQL cursor programs.
12. Front end tools – Mini Project.
SEMESTER II
16CMBN21 APPLIED OPERATIONS RESEARCH 3104
Course Objective:
The Objectives of the course is to acquaint the student with the applications of Operations
Research to business and industry and help them to grasp the significance of analytical
techniques in decision making.
Students will be tested on the application of Operations Research to business related
problems.
Course Outcomes:
UNITI INTRODUCTION 12
Origin, Nature, Definition, Managerial applications &Limitations of OR.Linear programming –
Formulation - Graphical & Simplex Method.
Total – 60 H
Text Books:
1. Singh &Kumar,”OperationResearch”UDH Publisher,2013
2. Kothari,”QuantitativeTechniques”Vikas, 3rd Ed,2006
3. TahaHamdy,” Operation Research -An Introduction”, Prentice-Hall, 2010
References:
1. S.R. Yadav, A.K. Malik,”Operations Research” Oxford University Press; First edition,2014
2. J.K.Sharma,” Operations Research THEORY AND APPLICATION” Macmillan
Publishers,4th Ed,2009 .
3. G.V.Shenoy,U.K.Srivastava,S.C.Sharma,”Operations Research for Management”New Age
International,Revised 2nd Ed,2005
16CMBN22 ECONOMETRICS 3104
Course Objective:To understand the importance of econometrics with statistical concepts, regression
analysis, time series and forecasting
Course Outcome:
Co-1:An integration of economics with statistics and mathematics for the purpose of framing economic
policies, empirical studies and building economic models for economic development and growth as
well as to provide solutions for major economic problems such as business crises, inflation, deflation
etc.,
Co-2:To understand the basis of econometrics
Co-3:To know the anatomy of basic econometric models
Co-4:To understand the role of econometrics in policy framing
Co-5:To construct econometric models for estimating future sales
Co-6:To prepare case study using econometric methodology in order to evaluate Government policies
Co-7:To understand the basis of probability and statistics
Co-8: To know how to construct ANOVA table
Co-9:To conduct research surveys through multiple regression and multiple correlation
Co-10:Proving the relevance of the estimator through econometric models – OLS and BLUE
INTRODUCTION 12H
Historical perspective of Econometrics – Econometrics – Importance of Econometrics – Types of
Econometrics – Methodology of Econometrics
BASIC STATISTICAL CONCEPT 12H
Course Objective:
This course will cover all aspects of creating spreadsheet, performing calculations,
formatting, some very widely used formulas.
It will enable the students to create, build models and customize graphs, develop
advanced solutions on the worksheet in the areas of marketing, finance, statistics,
production and human resource and to assemble the proper Excel tools.
Course Outcomes:
CO1 - Understand the basic features of Excel spreadsheet functions.
CO2 - Analyse and provide optimal solutions for the financial problems related to
firms’ cash flows, operations, and financial leverage.
CO3 - Understand the basic features of Spread sheets.
CO4 - Analyse and assess the fair values of various securities including stocks and
bonds
CO5 - Understand the pricing tools for European and American options, including
Black-Scholes option formula and binomial trees.
C06 - Understand the basic features of the foreign exchange markets and develop basic
knowledge in relevant analysis
CO7 - Create MS Excel based financial models.
CO8 - Use the advanced tools of Excel.
CO9 - Record and build Excel Macros for implementing advanced functionalities in
Excel.
CO10 - Carry out financial analysis, forecasting, etc.
UNIT –I INTRODUCTION 12
Module:IntroductiontoSpreadsheetModeling–Formulas/Formatting/Printing/Functions
Cellreferences,Lookuptables,Linkingdisparateworkbooks,Dynamiclinking,updatinglinks,datava
lidation,Goalseek,Pivottable,Sorting,Chartingandfilteringandprotectingspreadsheets.
UNIT – II SPREADSHEETMODELLINGINSALESANDMARKETING
12
Newproductdecisionmaking–Salesandmarketingdataanalysis.
UNIT – III SPREADSHEET MODELLINGIN FINANCE 12
Forecastingfinancialstatements–
Capitalbudgetingdecisions,Bondvaluation,Stockvaluation,Breakevenanalysis,Budgeting,Ratioa
nalysis,Sensitivityanalysis,Simulationanalysis,PortfolioconstructionandWorkingcapital.
UNIT – V SPREADSHEETMODELLINGINPRODUCTIONAND
HUMANRESOURCE 12
ABCanalysis,Economicorderquantity,Productionbudget–Employeeandpayrolldecisionmaking.
TEXTBOOKS:
Walkenbach,John.ExcelBible.NewDelhi:WileyIndiaPvtLtd.2ndedition,2010
1. MacDonald,Mathew..Excel:TheMissingManual.Sebastopol:O'reilly.2ndedition,201
0
REFERENCES:
1. Ragsdale,Cliff.T,
SpreadsheetModellingandDecisionAnalysis.NewYork:Thomsonsouth–
westernpublications..6thedition,2008
2. Monahan,GeorgeE.ManagementDecisionMaking:SpreadSheet,Modelling,Analysis.
London:CambridgeUniversity.8thedition,2000
16CMBN23 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE 3003
Course Objective:
Business Analytics is a set of techniques and processes that can be used to analyze data to
improve business performance through fact-based decision-making.
The objective of this subject is to introduce the Business Intelligence methods that
support the decision process in business operations.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 12
Business Intelligence: definition, concept and need for Business Intelligence, Case studies BI
Basics: Data, information and knowledge, Role of Mathematical models
Business Analytics at the strategic level: Strategy and BA, Link between strategy and Business
Analytics, BA supporting strategy at functional level, dialogue between strategy and BA
functions, information as strategic resource.
References:
1. Olivia Parr Rud, Business Intelligence Success Factors Tools for aligning your business in the
global economy,John Wiley and Sons, 2009
2. Steve Williams and Nancy Williams, The Profit impact of Business Intelligence, Morgan
Kauffman Publishers! Elsevier, 2007
3. Gert H.N. Laursen, JesperThorlund,Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business
Intelligence beyond reporting, Wiley and SAS Business Series. 2010
16CMBN24 PROJECT MANAGEMENT 3003
Course Objective:
The objective of this course is to understand the concept and principles of the Project
Management.
The course is to understand the tools and technique for identification, analysis and
implementation of Project Management.
Course Outcomes
• To understand the business case for a project, the scope and constraints involved in a
specific opportunity.
• To be able to function in a project management environment successfully.
• To be able to apply your skills immediately to the efficiency of the business operation.
• To describe a project life cycle and skillfully map each stage in the cycle
• To identify the resources needed for each stage, including involved stakeholders, tools
and supplementary materials
• To describe the time needed to successfully complete a project, considering factors such
as task dependencies and task lengths
• To provide internal stakeholders with information regarding project costs by considering
factors such as estimated cost, variances and profits.
UNIT IV ANALYSIS 12
Network technique for Project Management – CPM, PERT – Risk Management – Nature of Risk
– Types of Risk – Managing Risk – Hazard Identification – Hazard Analysis – Risk Planning and
Control – FMEA.
Course Objective:
This course helps to know how to derive meaning form huge volume of data and
information. Understand and interpret a business objective, and translate the business
objective to business intelligence and data mining objectives.
Identify possible risks and limitations of a data set in achieving business objectives.
Apply the appropriate business intelligence and data mining techniques to match a
business objective. Present results to stakeholders in terms of the business objectives
set, and how the information learned can be used to add value to the business.
Work through all stages of a data mining methodology.
Course Outcome:
Co 1:Design and implement OLTP, OLAP and Warehouse concepts.
Co 2:Design and develop Data Warehouse using Various Schemas & Dimensional modelling.
Co 3:Use the ETL concepts, tools and techniques to perform
Co 4:Extraction, Transformation, and Loading of data.
Co 5:Report the usable data by using various reporting concepts, techniques/tools, and use
charts, tables for reporting in BI.
Co 6:Use Analytics concepts like data mining, Exploratory and statistical techniques for
predictive analysis in Business Intelligence.
Co 7:To present survey on different learning, classification and data mining foundations.
Co 8:To solve problems for multi-core or distributed, concurrent/Parallel environments.
Course Objective: The course is to understand the management and administration, functions of
management, formal and informal organization, staffing, creativity and innovation, process of
communication.
Course Outcomes
CO -1: Design, device, and query relational databases for operative data.
CO - 2: Design, implement, populate and query data warehouses for informational data .
CO - 3: To integrate very large data sets to make business decisions.
CO - 4:Evaluate the use of data from acquisition through cleansing, warehousing, analytics, and
visualization to the ultimate business decision.
CO - 5:Evaluate the key concepts of business analytics.
CO - 6:Determine when to implement relational versus document oriented database structures.
CO -7:Outline the relationship of the business analytics process within the organisation’s
decision-making process.
CO - 8:Examine and apply appropriate business analytic techniques and methods.
CO - 9:Execute real-time analytical methods on streaming datasets to react quickly to customer
needs.
CO -10:To critically analyse the predictive analysis methods.
Unit I
Introduction to Descriptice analytics, Descriptive Statistics, Probability Distributions,
Statistics through hypothesis tests, Permutation & Randomization Test
Unit II
Regression, ANOVA (Analysis of Variance), Machine Learning Introduction and Concepts-
Differentiating algorithmic and model based frameworks, Regression: Ordinary Least
Squares, Ridge Regression, Lasso Regression, K Nearest Neighbours, Regression &
Classification
Unit III
Supervised Learning with Regression and Classification techniques- Bias-Variance
Dichotomy, Model Validation Approaches, Logistic Regression, Linear Discriminant
Analysis, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, Regression and Classification Trees, Support
Vector Machines, Ensemble Methods: Random Forest, Neural Networks, Deep learning
Unit IV
Unsupervised Learning and Challenges for Big Data Analytics- Clustering, Associative Rule
Mining, Challenges for big data analytics,
Unit V
Prescriptive analytics Creating data for analytics through designed experiments, creating data
for analytics through Active learning, creating data for analytics through Reinforcement
learning, Graph Visualization, Data Summaries, Model Checking & Comparison
References:
1. Hastie, Trevor, et al. The elements of statistical learning.Vol.2.No. 1. New York: springer,
2009.
2. Montgomery, Douglas C., and George C. Runger. Applied statistics and probability for
engineers. John Wiley & Sons, 2010
3. Bekkerman et al. Scaling up Machine Learning
4. Tom White “Hadoop: The Definitive Guide” Third Edition, O‟reilly Media, 2012.
5. AnandRajaraman and Jeffrey David Ullman, “Mining of Massive Datasets”, Cambridge
University Press, 2012.
6. Vincent Granville, Developing Analytic Talent: Becoming a Data Scientist, wiley, 2014.
7. Jeffrey Stanton & Robert De Graaf, Introduction To Data Science, Version 2.0, 2013.
Discipline Specific Elective (DSE)
16DMBN34 SAP FICO 4003
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
COURSE OUTCOMES:
1. Andrew Okungbowa, SAP ERP FICO: Configuration and Use Management, Apress,
2011
2. Narayanan, SAP FI Financial Accounting, 2009
3. BhushanJairamdasMamtani, SAP FICO - Black Book, dreamtech press, 2011
16DMBN35 SAP SD 4003
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Maintain the key master data in Sales and Distribution, and name and define the required
business structures.
Work with the various documents in Sales and Distribution Describe the points of contact
from Sales and Distribution to the materials management, production (for example,
make-to-order) and financial accounting areas
Integrate sales in the Sales and Distribution process chain Configure Customizing so that
it represents your specific sales requirements
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO2Execute the most important functions in the process chain from the pre sales phase to
the
incoming payment in the system
CO3 Creation of org structures in Sales area and its corresponding units
CO4Gain an extensive overview of the sales and distribution areas as part of the SD
component
in the SAP system
CO5 Obtain a more detailed insight into sales and distribution functions using selected
examples
CO6 Build up the knowledge needed to implement these functions and be able to use them
CO7Acquire knowledge of how to adapt the system using Customizing settings to meet your
own
specific requirements in sales and distribution
CO8 Hands on material determination and product selection and material Listing and
material
Exclusion
CO9 Hands on free goods process. Condition technique, free goods master data, free goods
calculation rule
Unit I
OVERVIEW OF SD MODULE, Organizational Structure, Reaching IMG, SALES
ORGANIZATION SETUP, Creating Sales Organization, Creating Distribution Channel,
Creating Division
Unit II
ASSIGNING OF ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS, Assigning Sales Organization with Company
code, Assigning Distribution Channel to Sales Organization, Assigning Division to Sales
Organization
Unit III
CREATING MASTER DATA, Introduction to Master data, Preparing the system for Master
Data Creation - Creating Common Distribution Channel - Creating Common Division, Customer
Master Data – Introduction, Creating Customer Master
Unit IV
SALES ORDER CREATION, Definition and Prerequisites, Preparing the system Combining
Organization Units, Assigning Sales Document to Sales Area, Sales Order Creation
Unit V
Viewing Header Details, Viewing Item Details, Viewing Schedule Lines
References:
1. Glynn Williams, Implementing SAP ERP Sales & Distribution, McGraw Hill
Education, 2005
2. Ashok Faujdar, BinniKumariChoudhary, SAP Sales and Distribution Certification Guide,
McGraw Hill Education, 2009
3. K. A. Samad, SAP SD for Beginners Vol.1, Shroff; First edition, 2005
16DMBN36 SAP MM 4003
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To learn everything working with SAP Purchasing and Material Master, which is an
integral part of Warehouse Management.
To gain a complete understanding of SAP MM and also has acquired the ability to apply
these skills and knowledge in a practical manner.
To gain knowledge on wide range of topics such as consumption-based planning,
purchasing, vendor evaluation and invoice verification.
This course also focuses on inventory, production planning, and warehouse management.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO1 To learn about ERP Packages, Functions and Objectives of materials management
CO2To learn how to create, release and send the request for quotation (RFQ) to selected
vendors.
CO3 Company, Company code, Controlling Area, Plant, Storage Location, Purchase
Organization,
Purchasing group
CO4 Creation of Master Data and Source determination and list.
CO5 To know about document types for purchasing documents.
CO6 To know the release procedure for purchasing documents.
CO7 Pricing Procedure, External Service Management, Inventory Management
CO8 Physical Inventory, Special Stocks and Special Procurement Types, Valuation and
Account Determination.
CO9 Offers complete knowledge of Warehouse and Stock Management & Procurement Supply
Chain Method implementation using SAP ERP.
C10 Integration Concepts- integration of MM with SD, Stock Transport Order (STO), Intra
Company
Stock Transfer, Inter Company or Cross Company Stock Transfer, Integration of MM with
PP
Unit I
SAP Overview Processes in Procurement, Basics of Procurement Process, Master Data,
Procurement of Stock Material, Procurement of Consumable Material, Procurement of External
Services, Reporting in MM, Materials Planning, Basics, Planning Run, Lot-Size Calculation,
Reorder Point Planning and Planning Evaluation
Unit II
Purchasing Details & Optimization, Introduction to Purchasing Details, Outline Agreements,
Source Determination, Optimized Purchasing Inventory Management/ Physical
Management,Inventory Management: Overview, Goods Receipts, Reservations and Goods
Issues, Stock Transfers and Transfer Postings, Consignment, Subcontracting, Physical
Inventory Management, Cycle Counting, Inventory Sampling
Unit III
Valuation and Account Determination, Introduction to Material Valuation, Valuation and
Account Assignment, Material Price Changes, Special Inventory Management Features Invoice
verification, Introduction to Invoice Verification, Basic Invoice Verification Procedure, Taxes,
Cash Discounts, and Foreign Currency
Unit IV
Variances and Blocking Reasons, Invoice Reduction, Variances without Reference to an Iteml,
Invoices for POs with Account Assignment, Delivery Costs, Subsequent Debits/Credits, Credit
Memos and Reversals, Invoice Verification in the Background, ERS and Invoicing Plans,
Releasing Blocked Invoices, GR/IR Account Maintenance, Conventional Invoice Verification,
Customizing for Invoice Verification, Conclusion
Unit V
Classification and related areas in MM, Classification, Document Release (Approval) Procedure,
Batch Management ASAP, ASAP Overview, Implementation Roadmap Cross-Functional
Customizing, Global Settings, MM Organizational Levels: Business Scenario, Master Data in
Materials Management, Purchasing, Pricing, Inventory Management
References:
1. MukeshShukla, SAP Materials Management, McGraw Hill Education, 2012, 2nd Edition.
2. Rajesh Vyas, Sap Mm: Complete Reference to Implementation / Customization, Createspace,
2010
3. Martin Murray, SAP MM: Functionality and Technical Configuration, SAP Press; 2nd Revised
edition edition, 2008
16DMBN37 SAP HCM 4003
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• Understand the business processes of SAP HCM
• Understand and maintain employee data for an enterprise
• Implement infotypes for supporting transaction processing in SAP
• Define time recording processes
• Outline payroll processes
• Execute configurations and processes for organization management
• Implement authorizations and key elements of configuring authentications in HCM
module
• Support and manage SAP HCM implementation procedure
COURSE OUTCOMES
CO1 To learn SAP HR sub-modules and its benefits and three tier
CO2 To understand system navigation and implementation road map.
CO3 To understand Organizational management and structure, relationships and infotyes
CO4 To create HR master date, Personnel structure assignment and HR infotypes.
CO5 To understand the different types of HR info type groups
CO6 To learn about customizing user procedures
CO7 To learn about employee sub group, Pay scale type
CO8 To learn about recruitment infotypes, Training and Event Management Posting to Financial
Accounting
CO9 To learn about maintaining employee data for business event
C10 To learn about transferring of applicant data to Personnel Administration
Unit I
Introduction ERP & SAP, Overview on SAP HR sub modules, System Landscape – Three tier
Architecture, ASAP Methodology, System navigation, Implementation road map
Unit II
Organization Management, Introduction about Organizational Management, Structures in
SAPHCM, Objects, Relationships, Creation of Organizational structure Methods, Expert mode,
Simple maintenance, Organizational and Staffing, Info types in OM, Plan version, Evaluation
path, Reports Personnel Administration:Enterprise structure Assignment, Company, Company
code, Personnel area, Personnel sub area, Personnel structure Assignment, Employee group,
Employee sub group, Payroll accounting area, Integration settings with OM & PA, HR Master
Data, Accounting global settings, Period Parameters, Fiscal year setting, Posting periods,
Employee Attributes, Info types in PA, Features, Info type Ranges in HR, Number Ranges for
Employee personnel numbers, Reports
Unit III
Customizing user Procedures, Configuration of Personnel Actions – Info group – Action menu,
Dynamic Actions, Administration Group, Payroll Area, Control record, Period Parameters, Date
Modifiers, Payroll Period, Pay scale structure, Pay scale area, Pay scale type, Pay scale groups &
Levels, Employee sub group, Grouping for CAP Time Management: Time Management Info
types
Unit IV
Pay scale type, Pay scale groups & Levels, Employee sub group grouping for CAP, Creation of
Wage types, Primary wage types, Technical / Secondary wage types, Customer wage types,
Indirect evaluation mode, Wage type characteristics, Wage type models, Payments
&Deductions,Garnishments, Factoring, Off – Cycle payroll, Posting to Financial Accounting
(Symbolic Accounts)
Unit V
Recruitment, Info types, Work force requirement & Advertisement, Applicant Administration,
Applicant selection, Applicant data, Transferring of applicant data to Personnel Administration
Training & Event Management, Info types, Training & event interdiction, Training requirement,
Defining cost of Training ,Location for the Training or business event, Business event group,
Business event type, Maintaining employee data for business event type Personnel Development,
Planning, Setting up of Qualifications catalog, Setting up of rating scales, Appraisals, Old
Appraisals, Appraisal catalog, Appraisal system, Employee Appraisal
References:
1. Ganesh Karthik S, SAP HCM - A Complete Tutorial, Packt Publishing Limited, 2014
2. Aggarwal P.K, Sap Hr India Payroll: Technical Reference and Learning Guide, Prentice
Hall India Learning Private Limited (2009)
3. KARTHIK S, Sap Hcm- A Complete Tutorial : Deploy And Implement The Diverse
Functionalities Of Sap, Packt Enterprise, 2014
16DMBN38 STOCHASTIC MODELLING 4003
Course Objective:
1. To learn the basic concepts for modeling the stochastic process. To study the various
aspects of stochastic systems modeling and conducting experiments with those models.
3. To understand the study of systems evolve randomly over time and to understand the
behavior of these systems, especially in long run.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able
1. To understand the basic probability axioms and rules and the moments of continuous
random variables and discrete variables.
2. To derive the probability density function of transformation of random variables and use
these techniques to generate data from various distribution.
3. To understand the secrete time Markov chains and methods of finding the equilibrium
probability distributions
4. To understand how to calculate probabilities of absorption and expected hitting times for
discrete time Markov chains with absorbing states.
6. To understand the concept of random processes and determine covariance and spectral
density of stationary random processes.
7. To devise solutions with probability models for continuous time Markov chains
8. To define probability models, concept and properties of Markov processes and Markov
chains.
9. To understand the processes involves renewable theory
10. To understand the limit theorem and processes involve in renewal reward.
Poisson process: definition and properties – TheM/G/1 busy period – Nonhomogeneous Poisson
process – TheMt/G/∞ queue – CompoundPoisson process.
Total: 60 h
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Mark A. Pinsky and Samuel Karlin An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Fourth Edition
4th Edition, Academic Press,2010.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Samuel Karlin and Howard M. Taylor, An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Third
Edition 3rd Edition, Academic Press, 1998.
2. Paul Gerhard Hoel, Sidney C. Port, Charles J. Stone, Introduction to Stochastic Processes,
Waveland Pr Inc,1986.
16DMBN39 SIMULATION MODELLING 4003
Course Objective:
1. To study and develop the concepts, techniques, tools for modeling and simulation
models.
2. To study the various aspects of discrete and stochastic systems modeling and
conducting the experiments with the simulation models.
Course outcomes:
Students will be able
1. To define basic concepts in modeling and simulation
2. To understand the basic probability axioms and rules and the moments of continuous
random variables and discrete variables.
3. To generate and test random number variates and apply them to develop simulation
models.
7. To construct a model for a given set of data and motivate its validity
8. To analyze output data produced by a model and test validity of the model.
9. To classify various simulation models and give practical examples for each category
1. Banks, J., Carson, J. S. and Nelson, B. L. , Discrete Event System Simulation, 4th
edition, Pearson Education Asia, 2006.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Averill, M. L. and David, W. K., Simulation Modeling and Analysis, 3rd
Edition,McGraw Hill, 2000.
2. David W. K., Sadowski, R. P. and Sasowski, D. A., Simulation with ARENA, McGraw
Hill, 2002.
3. Gordon, G., Systems Simulation, Prentice Hall, 2002.
16DMBN40 HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS 4003
Course Objective:
• To understand how big data principles implemented in healthcare
• To understand the data processing for healthcare analytics
• To describe the management principles for implementation of analytics in the healthcare
industry
• To understand the statistical principles for healthcare industry
Course outcome:
CO – 1: To gain knowledge on the concepts of health care management.
CO – 2: To understand the implementation of analytics for health care.
CO – 3: To understand the types of data analytics.
CO – 4: To understand the data structures for healthcare.
CO – 5: To gain knowledge on the concepts of Health Care Management.
CO – 6: To understand the Training & Education in health care industry.
CO – 7: To understand the Attitude among Hospital Service Providers.
CO – 8: To understand the Motivation among Hospital Service Providers.
CO – 9: To gain knowledge on the statistical concepts for healthcare data scientists.
CO – 10: To estimate the data using the various statistical tools.
UNIT 1: Introduction and Strategic Importance of fostering a data-driven culture in
healthcare organizations 12
Introduction – Health Care Management – Evolution of Health Care Systems in India & Abroad
- – Evolution of Present Health Care Services in India - Business value of data to a healthcare
organization- -Data governance and what it means to a healthcare organization-Importance of
fostering a data-driven culture in a healthcare organization - skill sets should a data analytics
team must have.
UNIT 2:Health data processing and reporting techniques 12
The Data Life Cycle- Healthcare data sources and data structures- Types of data analytics
techniques and their strengths and weaknesses - Measuring quality and safety of caring and
Developing Key Performance Indicators.
UNIT 3:Health care management 12
Introduction to Health Care Management- Importance-Features-Success in Team Work in Health
care management– In-service Training & Education in health care industry- recent trends in
health care industry.
UNIT4:Attitude and Motivation among Hospital service providers
12
Development of Attitude & Motivation among Hospital Service Providers – Awareness of
Health Insurance – Role of Hospital Administrator.
UNIT 5 Health data summary and visualization techniques 12
Statistics – the basics all healthcare data scientists should know-Data summary techniques (for
measurement and categorical data)-Visualization techniques (for measurement and categorical
data)-Interactive visualization techniques-Common misuses of data visualization- Techniques
for Statistical Inference – the 95% Confidence Interval- General principles involving test of
statistical significance – Null Hypothesis, p-value and interpreting test outcomes.
Total – 60 H
Text Books:
1. S.L. Goel, Healthcare Management and Administration, Deep & Deep Publications Pvt.
Ltd. New Delhi, 7th edition, 2007.
2. 2. Srinivasan, A.V. (ed.), Managing a Modern Hospital, Chapter 12, Response Books,
New Delhi, 6th edition, 2000.
Reference Books:
Sharon B. Buchbinder , Nancy H. Shanks, Introduction To Health Care Management , Malloy
Incorporation, 2nd edition, 2012.
16DMBN41 SOCIAL & WEB ANALYTICS 4003
Course Objective:
• To understand how big data principles implemented inSocial media & Web
• To understand the data processing for Social media &Webanalytics
• To describe the different metrics for Social media &Webanalytics
• To understand the application for Social media & Web analytics
Course outcome:
CO – 1: To recognize on the fundamental concepts of Social media.
CO – 2: To recognize on the fundamental concepts of Web.
CO – 3: To understand the implementation framework of web analytics.
CO – 4: To explain the experimental methods in web data analytics.
CO – 5: To recognize the typesofdata for Social media & Web analytics.
CO – 6: To design the experiments for Social media & Web analytics.
CO – 7: To identify the different metrics for Social media & Web analytics.
CO – 8: To select the appropriatemetrics for Social media & Web analytics.
CO – 9: To investigate the various tools for Social media analytics.
CO – 10: To estimate the data using the Web analytical tools.
UNIT I : 12h
Introduction, History of Social media- Basics of Social Media and Business Models- Basics of
Web Search Engines and Digital Advertising.Web& social media (websites, web apps , mobile
apps & social media) .
UNIT II : 12h
Web analytics- Web analytics 2.0 framework (clickstream, multiple outcomes analysis,
experimentation and testing, voice of customer, competitive intelligence, Insights) -
Experimental methods in web data analytics - Air France Internet Marketing Case Study -
Econometric modeling of search engine ads
UNIT III: 12h
Data (Structured data, unstructured data, metadata, Big Data and Linked Data) -Lab testing and
experiment design (selecting participants, within-subjects or between subjects study,
counterbalancing, independent and dependent variable; A/B testing, multivariate testing,
controlled experiments)
UNIT IV: 12h
Web metrics and web analytics - PULSE metrics (Page views, Uptime, Latency, Seven-day
active users) on business and technical issues; -HEART metrics (Happiness, Engagement,
Adoption, Retention, and Task success) on user behaviour issues; -On-site web analytics, off-site
web analytics, the goal-signal-metric process
UNIT V: 12h
. Social media analytics - Social media analytics (what and why) - Social media KPIs (reach and
engagement) - Performing social media analytics (business goal, KPIs, data gathering, analysis,
measure and feedback) 6. Data analysis language and tools
Cases and examples - User experience measurement cases - Web analytics cases 8. Group work
and hands on practice - Usability study planning and testing; and data analysis using software
tools (Google Analytics, Google Sites, R and Deducer)
Total – 60 h
TEXT BOOKS ;
1. AvinashKaushik, Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of
Customer Centricity, John Wiley & Sons; Pap/Cdr edition (27 Oct 2009)
2. Tom Tullis, Bill Albert, Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and
Presenting Usability Metrics, Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (28 April 2008) .
REFERENCE :
1. Jim Sterne, Social Media Metrics: How to Measure and Optimize Your Marketing Investment,
John Wiley & Sons (16 April 2010)
2. Brian Clifton, Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, John Wiley & Sons; 3rd Edition
edition (30 Mar 2012)
16DMBN42 R PROGRAMMING 4003
Course Objective:
The objective of the course is partly to give an
introduction to the software R and how to write elementary programs and partly to
demonstrate how statistical models are implemented and applied.
At the end of the course the student will be able to import,
manage and structure data files.
Write simple program scripts for data analysis produce
illustrative data plots and carry out statistical tests.
Course Outcomes:
CO1 - Recognise and make appropriate use of different types of data structures;
CO2 - Use R to create sophisticated figures and graphs;
CO3 - Identify and implement appropriate control structures to solve a particular
programming problem; and
CO4 - Design and write functions in R and implement simple iterative algorithms.
CO5 - Participants will learn to apply structured thinking to unstructured problems
CO6 - Participants will be able to categorize and understand various data types.
CO7 - Participants will be able to convert imprecise business relevant problem statements
to precise data analytic problems.
CO8 - Participants will learn the importance of visualization in the data analytics solution
process
CO9 – Outlines the application of R in real world situations.
CO10 – Distinguishes between SAS and R programming.
Unit 3Graphics 12
Basic plotting - Manipulating the plotting window - Advanced plotting using lattice library -
Saving plots
Unit 5 Advanced R 12
Data management (importing, subsetting, merging, new variables, missing data
etc.)Plotting– Loops and functions-Migration SAS to R– Plotting and Graphics in R – Writing R
functions, optimizing R code– Bioconductor, analysis of gene expression and genomics data.
More on linear models – Multivariate analysis, Cluster analysis, dimension reduction methods
(PCA).
Text Books:
1. Peter Dalgaard. Introductory Statistics with R (Paperback) 1st Edition Springer-Verlag New
York, Inc. ISBN 0-387-95475-9
2. W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. 2002. Modern Applied Statistics with S. 4th Edition.
Springer. ISBN 0-387-95457-0
References:
1. Andreas Krause, Melvin Olson. 2005. The Basics of S-PLUS. 4th edition. Springer-Verlag,
New York. ISBN 0-387-26109-5
2. Jose Pinheiro, Douglas Bates. 2000. Mixed-effects models in S and S-PLUS Springer-
Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 0-387-98957-9
3. An Introduction to R. Online manual at the R website at http://cran.r-
project.org/manuals.html
16DMBN43 HR ANALYTICS 4003
Course Objective:
To understand the concepts, tools and techniques of HR Analytics that could be
applied as resource management evidence based.
To understand HR reports & to understand the decisions technologies.
Recognize the fundamental strategic priorities of the business and learn how to
provide enhanced decision support leveraging analytics.
Course Outcomes:
CO1 - It helps to analyse appropriate internal and external human resource metrics
benchmarks and indicators.
CO3 - Employ appropriate software to record, maintain, retrieve and analyse human
resources information (e.g., staffing, skills, performance ratings and compensation
information).
CO4 - Apply quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand trends and indicators
in human resource data; understand and apply various statistical analysis methods
Introduction to HR Analytics:
Basics of HR Analytics: Concept and Evolution of HR Analytics & data sources - HCM:
21Model. Use of workforce analytics to improve decision making.Analytics and
Prediction.Introduction to HR Metrics and predictive analytics.Importance of HR Analytics.Data
Analytic techniques using software packages.Future of Human Resource Analytics.HR Metrics
and HR Analytics; Intuition versus analytical thinking.
UNIT II 12H
Creating business understanding for HR initiatives: Workforce segmentation and search for
critical job roles; Statistical driver analysis – association and causation; Linking HR measures to
business results; choosing the right measures for scorecards; Identifying and using key HR
Metrics.
UNIT IV 12H
Predictive modelling in HR: Employee retention and turnover; workforce productivity and
performance; scenario planning.
UNIT V : 12h
Communicating with data and visuals: Data requirements; identifying data needs and
gathering data; HR data quality, validity and consistency; Using historical data; Data
exploration; Data visualization; Association between variables; Insights from reports; Root cause
analysis of HR issues
TOTAL – 60H
TEXT BOOK :
1.Jac Fitz-Enz , The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company's
Human Capital Investments, Amacom.
2. Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly and Jac Fitz-enz, Human Capital Analytics: How to Harness the
Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset, John Wiley & Sons
REFERENCE :
1.The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Companys Human Capital
Investments: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company's Human Capital
Investments Hardcover – Import, 1 Jun 2010, Jacfitz-Enz
16DMBN31 OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS 4 0 0 3
Course Objective:
• To provide foundational knowledge associated with the operations analytics
• To provide foundational knowledge associated with the supply chain analytics
• To describe the various tools and techniques for implementation of analytics based on the
supply chain drivers such as location, logistics and inventory
• To describe the various techniques for analytics based on the Multi Attribute Decision
Making (MADM) and risk
• To provide the applications of analytics in operations and supply chain
Course outcome:
CO – 1: To recognize on the fundamental concepts of location and layout.
CO – 2: To understand on the implementation of analytics in location and layout.
CO – 3: To understand the inventory techniques for analytics.
CO – 4: To analyze the inventory using aggregate production model
CO – 5: To identify the different network models.
CO – 6: To illustrate the transportation problems for analytics in network design.
CO – 7: To analyze the different dimensions using Analytic Hierarchy Process.
CO – 8: To analyze the different dimensions using Data Envelopment Analysis.
CO – 9: To identify the different types of analytics for operations and supply chain.
CO – 10: To explain theapplications of analytics in operations and supply chain.
Unit I
Warehousing Decisions, Mathematical Programming Models, P-Median Methods, Guided LP
Approach, Balmer – Wolfe Method, Greedy Drop Heuristics, Dynamic Location Models, Space
Determination and Layout Methods
Unit II
Inventory Management, Inventory aggregation Models, Dynamic Lot sizing Methods, Multi-
Echelon Inventory models, Aggregate Inventory system and LIMIT, Transportation Network
Models, Notion of Graphs, Minimal Spanning Tree,
Unit III
Shortest Path Algorithms, Maximal Flow Problems, Multistage Transshipment and
Transportation Problems, Set covering and Set Partitioning Problems, Traveling Salesman
Algorithms, Advanced Vehicle Routing Problem Heuristics, Scheduling Algorithms-Deficit
function Approach and Linking Algorithms
Unit IV
Analytic Hierarchy Process, Data Envelopment Analysis, Risk Analysis in Supply Chain,
Measuring transit risks, supply risks, delivering risks
Unit V
Risk pooling strategies, Fuzzy Logic and Techniques-Application in SCM
References
1. GeradFeigin, Supply Chain planning and analytics – The right product in the right place
at the right time, Business Expert Press, 2011
2. Peter Bolstorff, Robert G. Rosenbaum, Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for
Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model, AMACOM Div American MgmtAssn,
2007
3. Robert Penn Burrows, Lora Cecere, Gregory P. Hackett, The Market-Driven Supply
Chain: A Revolutionary Model for Sales and Operations Planning in the New On-
Demand Economy, AMACOM Div American MgmtAssn, 201
16DMBN44 PRICING ANALYTICS FOR REVENUE MANAGEMENT 4 0 0 3
Course Objective:
This course provides an introduction to both the theory and the practice ofrevenue
management and pricing.
Fundamentally, revenue management is an applied discipline; its value derives from
the business results it achieves. At the same time, it has strong elements of an applied
science and the technical elements of the subject deserve rigorous treatment.
The plan of this course is to discuss both these practice and theory elements.
Course outcomes;
BooksRecommended:-
1. Quantitative Techniques in Management- N.D. Vohra – Tata- Mcgraw-Hill Publications
2. Quantitative Techniques for Managerial Decisions – J.K.Sharma – Macmillan India Ltd.
3. Managerial Decisions Modeling with Spreadsheets – Bal Krishnan, Render, Stair, Jr. - Pearson
Education.
4. Operations Management for Competitive Advantage – Chase, Aquilano, Jacobs, Agarwal –
Tata McGraw- Hill Publications
5. Production and Operations Management – Chary - Tata McGraw- Hill Publications
6. Introduction to Operations Research – Gillette B.E. – A computer oriented Approach – Tata
McGraw Hill Publications
7. Operations Research – TahaHatndy, A – An Introduction- PHI New Delhi
8.Quantitative Analysis for Management – Render, Stair, Jr. – Pearson Education.
9. Optimization Methods in Operations Research and Systems Analysis – Mittal and Mohan -
New Age International Publishers, New Delhi
10. ERP Demystified- Eilon.
16DMBN46 Ethical and Legal Aspects of Analytics 4003
Course Objective:
• To create the knowledge of Legal perspective and its practices to improvise the
business.
• To describe the nature and classes of contracts.
• To identify the elements needed to create a contract.
• To read, interpret contracts, and cases.
• To identify personal property and bailment.
Course Outcome:
• CO – 1: To create the knowledge of ethics legal perspective and its practices to improvise
the business.
• CO – 2: To clearly understand basics elements of contracts, classifications of contract and
how to breach and get remedies of the contract
• CO –3: To figure out the differentiate Sale and agreement to sell -conditions and
warranties
• CO – 4: To have a better comprehend of companies act which will helpful for the
budding mangers
• CO – 5: To know about the different type of negotiable instrument in practice
• CO – 6: To be well versed with the ethical procedure to be followed in decision making
and project.
CO -3: Applies knowledge to diagnose and solve problems in a wide range of diverse
situations, with an ability to work independently or with others and incorporate the analysis of
evidence based scientific literature to solve psychological problems.
CO -4: Engage in dialogue with a diverse range of people and communicate in a broad range
of forms (written, electronic, graphic, oral) to meet the circumstances of the situation and the
capabilities of the audience.
CO -5: Maintains tolerance and respect for individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds,
holding diverse values, adhering to professional expectations and demonstrating ethical
behavior.
CO -6: Describe the important methodological and design issues underlying applied human
research.
CO -7: Carry out independent research using a range of research designs and methods.
CO -8: Analyze, and interpret the data using specific statistical tools.
Course Objective:
• To provide foundational knowledge associated with the domain of business optimization
and analytics
• Tofamiliarise the students with all concepts ofoptimisation techniques
• To understand the simulation for analytics
• To describe the big data analytics
Course outcome:
CO – 1: To recognize on the fundamental concepts of Optimization.
CO – 2: To understand on the Business applications of Optimization.
CO – 3: To understand the operations research techniques for analytics.
CO – 4: To illustrate the transportation problems for analytics.
CO – 5: To recognize the typesofSimulationfor analytics.
CO – 6: To design the Simulation models for analytics.
CO – 7: To identify the different dimensions data for big data analytics.
CO – 8: To explain theapplications of big data analytics.
CO – 9: To identify the different types of analytics.
CO – 10: To explain theapplication software of analytics.
Unit I : Modeling 12
Overview: processes, Big Data, Models. Productivity and efficiency.Classification of
models.Sensitivityanalysis.The seven-step modeling process.Spreadsheetmodeling.Excel’s pivot
function.
Unit II: Linear Programming 12
Linear Programming, Introduction to Linear Programming (LP). Graphical
representation.Basicassumptions.The simplex algorithm.Infeasibility and
unboundedness.Production problem example.Productionscheduling.Bond portfolio optimization.
Extracting additional meaning from LP models: shadow prices, sensitivity analysis
Unit III, Visualization 12
Visualization, Organization/sources of data , Importance of data quality . Dealing with missing
or incomplete data, Data Classification
Unit IV 12
Decision modeling, Optimization Use of Excel to solve business problems: e.g. marketing mix,
capital budgeting, portfolio optimization, Goal programming; pareto optimality and trade-off
curves; the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Unit V 12
Process Mining, Concept and content of workflow logs; discovering the underlying process;
discovering exceptions. Process Mining (Course Notes).ProM - process mining toolkit
References:
Course Outcome:
CO –3: To distinguish the role of Management in the context of e‐Business and e‐Commerce
CO – 4: To explain the added value, risks and barriers in the adoption of e‐Business and
e‐Commerce
CO – 6: To use tools and services of the internet in the development of a virtual e‐commerce
site
Total: 60 h
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Harvey M.Deitel, Paul J.Deitel, Kate Steinbuhler, e-business and e-commerce for managers,
Pearson, 2011
REFERENCE BOOKS:
2. Hentry Chan &el , E-Commerce – fundamentals and Applications, Wiley India Pvt Ltd,
2007.
4. Bharat Bhasker, Electronic Commerce – Frame work technologies and Applications, 3rd
Edition. Tata McGrawHill Publications, 2009
5. KamleshK.Bajaj and Debjani Nag, Ecommerce- the cutting edge of Business, Tata
McGrawHill Publications, 7th reprint, 2009
Course Objective: To expose the students to the basic principles of the information technologies
for e-business management. Upon completion of this course, the students should have a good
working knowledge of information technologies, management information systems, legal issues,
and marketing issues of e-business.
Course outcomes:
1. To understand the basic requirement of e-business and major
requirements for doing e-business
2. To understand the fundamentals and technologies associated with e-
business
3. To explain the importance of e-marketing.
4. To explain and illustrate the use of online advertising and online
marketing strategies.
5. To understand the different forms of electronic payments.
6. To understand about the access and security over electronic payment
systems.
7. To explain the value of CRM. Able to help teams articulate their
CRM goals and identify key milestones in the relationship management process.
8. To measure the success of their relationship management efforts.
9. To appraise various social issues associated with the conduct of e-
business
10. To understand the legal and ethical issues involved in e-business.
UNIT IV CRM 12
Fundamentals of CRM - CRM benefits – building customer relationship – CRM building blocks
– CRM metrics – Building a CRM infrastructure
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Dr. Ravi Kalakota, Robinson, E-Business – Road map for success – 2nd edition 2000
2. Thomas H. Davenport Process Innovation - Reengineering Work through Information
Technology Harvard Business School Press, Boston 1993
16GMBN36 E-MARKETING 4003
Course Objective: The overall objectives are to understand internet users and to identify
profitable E-Marketing strategies. Understand the E-Marketing context: e-business models,
performance metrics, and role of strategic planning. Describe marketing strategies of
segmenting, targeting, positioning, and differentiation. Know how to use marketing functions
of product, pricing, distribution, and marketing communication for a firm's E-Marketing
strategy. Evaluate several customer relationship management (CRM) strategies using internet
technology.
Course Outcomes
CO – 3: To explain and illustrate the use of search engine marketing, online advertising and
online marketing strategies;
CO – 5: To conduct secondary research using various sources to identify and synthesise data
into useful management information;
CO – 7: To critically analyse planning options and offer constructive and practical alternative
solutions
CO – 8: To formulate an integrated and comprehensive e-marketing plan
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. David MeermanScott, “The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media,
Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly”, Wiley
4th Edition, Jan 2010
3. P. T. Joseph, E-Commerce: An Indian Perspective, Prentice Hall, 4th Edition, 2013
16GMBN37 ELECTRONIC COMMERCE 4003
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
To understand e-commerce, types of e-commerce, retail e-commerce-commerce industry frame
work, electronic payment systems, electronic fund transfer, web branding strategies, mobile
commerce strategies for business over web, web hosting.Train in regulatory aspects and implications
of e-commerce in the region, as well as its technological, political, security and economic components.
COURSE OUTCOME
CO – 1: Demonstrate an understanding of the foundations and importance of E-
commerce
CO – 2: Demonstrate an understanding of retailing in E-commerce byanalyzing
branding and pricing strategies.
CO – 3: By sing and determining the effectiveness of market research& Assessing the
effects of disintermediation.
CO – 4: Analyze the impact of E-commerce on business models and strategy
CO – 5: Describe Internet trading relationships including Business to Consumer,
Business-to-Business, Intra-organizational.
CO – 6: Describe the infrastructure for E-commerce
CO – 7: Describe the key features of Internet, Intranets and Extranets and explain how
they relate to each other.
CO – 8: Discuss legal issues and privacy in E-Commerce
CO – 9: Assess electronic payment systems
CO – 10: Recognize and discuss global E-commerce issues
UNIT I Introduction 12
Traditional commerce and E commerce – Internet and WWW – role of WWW – value
chains – strategic business and Industry value chains – role of E commerce.
UNIT IV Security 12
Computer security classification – copy right and Intellectual property – electronic -commerce
threats – protecting client computers – electronic payment systems – electronic cash – strategies
for marketing – sales and promotion – cryptography – authentication.
3.
16GMBN38 TIME SERIES ANALYSIS 4003
Course Objective: The objective of this course is to provide students with an overview and in depth
knowledge of quantitative techniques used for forecasting and their application. This includes
techniques that range from simple ones like moving averages and smoothing techniques to more
sophisticated ones like regression models, ARIMA (and related) models, VAR and VECM models,
Causality testing and ARCH and GARCH models to test volatility.
Course Outcomes:
CO-1: To utilize the time series method to predict the future of sales in a concern.
CO-2: To record the cyclical variations of the market and its trend.
CO-3: To assess the degree of regression among the variables.
CO-4: To record and predict the seasonal variations of a product and its derivatives.
CO-5: To estimate the variance and regression in complex web of factors.
CO-6: To suppress the large variations in predicting the trend.
CO-7: To undermine the smoothing of rough variations along a seasonal curve.
Co-8: To characterize the factors of causality in time series analysis.
Co-9: To construct a chain of time factors during which operations of management excels.
Co-10: To record the random variations associated in constructive model of business over the years.
Unit I 12H
INTRODUCTION TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Utility of the Time Series , Components of Time Series - Long term trend or secular trend - Seasonal
variations - Cyclic variations - Random variations, Methods of Measuring Trend - Free hand or graphic
method - Semi-average method - Method of moving averages - Method of least squares.
UNIT –II 12H
MODELS AND FORECAST FOR TIME SERIES DATA
Additive model - multiplicative model, Editing of Time Series, Measurement of Seasonal Variation -
Seasonal average method - Seasonal variation through moving averages - Chain or link relative method
- Ratio to trend method, Forecasting Methods Using Time Series - Mean forecast - Naive forecast -
Linear trend forecast - Non-linear trend forecast - Forecasting with exponential smoothing.
UNIT III
VECTOR AUTO REGRESSION MODEL(VAR) 12
Estimation and Identification, - Variance decomposition and Impulse response functions, - Causality
applying Granger Causality Tests and VAR model, -Forecasting using a VAR model.
UNIT IV STOCHASTIC PROCESS 12
Stochastic process and its main characteristics Stochastic process. Time series as a discrete
stochastic process.Stationarity.Main characteristics of stochastic processes (means,
autocovariation and autocorrelation functions).Stationary stochastic processes.Stationarity as the
main characteristic of stochastic component of time series.
UNIT V LINEAR TIME SERIES 12
Moving Average Models, Autoregressive Models, Mixed Autoregressive and Moving Average
Models, Homogeneous Non-Stationary Processes: ARIMA Models, Box-Jenkins Methodology,
Specification of ARIMA Models, SARIMA, ARMAX Models
TOTAL – 60 HRS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Wayne A. Woodward, Henry L. Gray, Alan C Elliott, Applied Time Series Analyses,
October 26, 2011 by CRC Press.
2. K.Krishnamoorthy,Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications, Second
Edition, November 6, 2015.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Jonathan D. Cryer,Kung-SikChan,Time Series Analysis: With Applications in R
(Springer Texts in Statistics), second edition, November 17, 2010.
Text Books
1. Aswathappa.K, Human Resource Management, Text and Cases, Tata McGraw Hill, New
Delhi. 2014
2. Gupta. S.C, Advanced Human Resource Management, Strategic Perspective, ANE Books
Pvt.Ltd, New Delhi.2009.
16GMBN39 Data Security 4003
Course Objective:
• To provide foundational knowledge associated with the Information Security.
• To provide the knowledge based on the security investigation.
• To describe the risk analysis for security.
• To describe the logical design for security
• To provide the applications of physical design for security
Course outcome:
CO – 1: To recognize on the fundamental concepts of information security.
CO – 2: To understand the different security models.
CO – 3: To understand the business needs for security investigation.
CO – 4: To identify the Issues such as Legal, Ethical and Professional
CO – 5: To identify the risk for security.
CO – 6: To assess the risk for security.
CO – 7: To understand the different standards and practices for logical design.
CO – 8: To understand thedesign of security architecture.
CO – 9: To identify the security technologyfor physical design.
CO – 10: To access the control devicesfor physical design.
UNIT I
INTRODUCTION 12H
History, What is Information Security?, Critical Characteristics of Information, NSTISSC
Security Model, Components of an Information System, Securing the Components, Balancing
Security and Access, The SDLC, The Security SDLC
UNIT II
SECURITY INVESTIGATION 12H
Need for Security, Business Needs, Threats, Attacks, Legal, Ethical and ProfessionalIssues
UNIT III
SECURITY ANALYSIS 12H
Risk Management: Identifying and Assessing Risk, Assessing and Controlling Risk
UNIT IV
LOGICAL DESIGN 12H
Blueprint for Security, Information Security Poicy, Standards and Practices, ISO17799/BS 7799,
NIST Models, VISA International Security Model, Design of Security Architecture, Planning for
Continuity
UNIT V
PHYSICAL DESIGN 12H
Security Technology, IDS, Scanning and Analysis Tools, Cryptography, Access Control
Devices, Physical Security, Security and Personnel
TEXT BOOK:
1. Michael E Whitman and Herbert J Mattord, “Principles of Information Security”, Vikas
Publishing House, New Delhi, 2003
REFERENCES:
1. Micki Krause, Harold F. Tipton, “ Handbook of Information Security Management”, Vol
1-3 CRC Press LLC, 2004.
2. Stuart McClure, Joel Scrambray, George Kurtz, “Hacking Exposed”, Tata McGraw- Hill,
2003
3. Matt Bishop, “ Computer Security Art and Science”, Pearson/PHI, 2002
16GMBN40 MARKETINGAND RETAIL ANALYTICS 4003
Course Objectives:
1. To create an understanding of the use of analytics in Marketing and Retail
Management.
Course Outcome:
1. To understand the market place and the changing consumer needs.
10. To understand the need for digital evolution in marketing and retail sector specifically.
Course Objective:
• To provide foundational knowledge associated with the Cloud Computing.
• To provide the knowledge based on the development of Cloud Service.
• To describe the applications of Cloud Computing.
• To describe the applications of Collaborating using Cloud Service.
• To describe the applications of Collaborating using online.
Course outcome:
CO – 1: To recognize on the fundamental concepts of Cloud Computing.
CO – 2: To understand the Cloud Architecture and Storage.
CO – 3: To recognize on the fundamental concepts of Cloud Services.
CO – 4: To identify the development of Cloud Service.
CO – 5: To identify the applications of Cloud Computing.
CO – 6: To comparethe applications of Cloud Computing.
CO – 7: To identify the applications of Collaborating using Cloud Service.
CO – 8: To compare the applications of Collaborating using Cloud Service.
CO – 9: To identify the tools of the applications of Collaborating using online.
CO – 10: To understand the applications of Collaborating using online.
UNIT III
CLOUD COMPUTING FOR EVERYONE 12h
Centralizing Email Communications – Collaborating on Schedules – Collaborating on To-Do
Lists – Collaborating Contact Lists – Cloud Computing for the Community – Collaborating on
Group Projects and Events – Cloud Computing for the Corporation
REFERENCES
1. Michael Miller, Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work
and Collaborate Online,Que Publishing, August 2008.
2. Haley Beard, Cloud Computing Best Practices for Managing and Measuring Processes for
On-demand Computing, Applications and Data Centers in the Cloud with SLAs, Emereo Pty
Limited, July 2008.
16GMBN11 PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT 2002
Course Objective:
• The objective of the course is to bring about personality development with regard to the
different behavioural dimensions that have far reaching significance in the direction of
organizational effectiveness.
• To enhance the overall development of the students.
• To understand the concept of success and failures and its implications on organizational
function.
• To improve interpersonal skills and be an effective team player.
Course Outcome:
Co1: To discuss the concept SWOT and its outcome.
Co2: To explain the communication skills and the self confidence.
Co3: To revise the concept of self esteem with examples
Co 4: To compare the concept of success and failure and its causes
Co5: to discuss the concept of motivation and also various factors leading to motivation and
demotivation,
Co6: To discuss leadership skills and also to know various types of leadership.
Co7: To explain the concept of Team building and the problem solving techniques
Co8: To analyze the time management skills and various techniques to handle
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 12
Introduction to Personality and working towards developing it – Definition and Basics of
Personality – Analyzing Strengths and Weakness – Increasing Vocabulary – Body Language –
Preparation for Self-Introduction – Communication Skills – Building Self Esteem and Self
Confidence
UNIT II TEAMS 12
Term self-esteem - Symptoms - Advantages - Do's and Don’ts to develop positive self- esteem –
Low self-esteem - Symptoms - Personality having low self-esteem - Positive and negative self-
esteem. The concept of success and failure. What is success? - Hurdles in achieving success -
Overcoming hurdles - Factors responsible for success – What is failure - Causes of failure - Do's
and Don’ts regarding success and failure.
UNIT IV LEADERSHIP 12
Introduction to Leadership, Leadership Power, Leadership Styles, Leadership in Administration.
Group Dynamics Importance of groups in organization, and Team Interactions in group, Group
Building Decision Taking, Team Building, Interaction with the Team, How to build a good
team?
UNIT V TECHNIQUES 12
Group Discussion - Resume Writing- Telephone, E-mail and Public Relations Office’s Etiquettes
- Telephone conversation - Time Management Styles- Techniques for better Time Management.
Total – 60
Text Books:
1. K.S.Antonysamy, Soft Skills and Personality Development – A hand book of Employability
skills, nichole, 2012
References:
1. Paul C. Nutt, Why Decisions Fail, BerrettKochler Publishers, Inc. San Francisco, 2002.
2. Kenneth G. Mcgee, Heads Up : How to Anticipate Business Surprises & Seize Opportunities
First, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004.
3. James G. March, Primer on Decision Making, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, 1994.
4. Indrajit Bhattacharya, An Approach to Communication Skills, DhanpatRaiDelhi, 2008.
16DMBN32 PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 4003
CourseObjective:
To understand the strategic role of operations management in creating and enhancing a firm’s
competitive advantages.
To understand the concepts of layout, planning, maintenance, quality and inventory control,
material and store management.
Course Outcomes
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 12
Definition of Operations Management, evolution of Production Management as Operations
Management.-Role of Operations Management in total management System-Interface between
the operation systems and systems of other functional areas. Production systems. Plant Location
and the factors influencing location. Plant layout - different types of layouts.LineBalancing.
Textbooks:
1. Stevenson J. William, Operations Management, 9th Edition, TMH, 2007.
2. Hanna, D.Mark& Rocky Newman, W, Integrated Operations Management-Addingvalue for
Customers,PHI, 2001,
3. Aswathappa K. and SridharaBhat, Production and Operations Management, Himalaya Pub.
House, 2003.
4. Lee J. krajewski and Larry P.Ritzman, Operations Management strategy and analysis,9th
Edition, Pearson Eduction / Prenctice Hall of India, 2007.
References:
1. Everett.Adam, Jr. and Ronald J. Elbert, Production and Operations Management Concepts,
Models and Behaviour, 5th Edition, PHI, 2003.
2. Edward M. Knod and Richard J. Schonberger, Operations Management meeting customers
demands, McGraw hill international, 2001.
3. KanishkaBedi, Production and Operations Management, Oxford University Press, 2005
4. .Chary, S.N, Production and Operations Management, Tata McGrawhill,2nd Edition, 2003.
5. Heizer Jay & Render Barry, Operations Management, Pearson Education, 8th Edition, 2007.
16GMBN41 E-GOVERNANCE AND CYBER LAW 4003
Course Objective:
• To introduce the cyber world and cyber law in general
• To explain about the various facets of cyber crimes
• To enhance the understanding of problems arising out of online transactions and provoke
them to find solutions
• To clarify the Intellectual Property issues in the cyber space and the growth and
development of the law in this regard, To educate about the regulation of cyber space at
national and international level.
Course Outcome:
CO – 1: To facilitate understand & critical understanding about Cybercrimes, Ethical Hacking,
cyber security, forensics and cyber laws
CO – 2: To Exploration of the legal and policy developments in various countries for cyber
space
CO – 3: To provide in-depth knowledge of Information Technology Act, 2000 including
Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008
CO – 4: To understand e-Governance, Electronic Contracts, e-Banking & Secure electronic
records
CO – 5: To share knowledge of the regulation of cyber space at national and international level
CO – 6: To know about the different type of cyber-crimes avail in the present scenario
CO – 7: To be acquainted with the e governance framework in our country.
CO – 8: To get aware of cyber law and use of computer, web technologies in the secured way
CO – 9: To acquaint the students with various dispute resolution available.
CO – 10: To know where to begin if you are presented with an employment law grievance
Unit I
Introduction, Computers and its Impact in Society, Overview of Computer and Web Technology,
Need for Cyber Law, Cyber Jurisprudence at International and Indian Level
Unit II
Introduction to e-governance, techniques, e-governance in India, Challenges faced, Indian theory
of Public administration
Unit III
Cyber Law - International Perspectives, UN & International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Initiatives, Council of Europe - Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC), Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
World Bank, Commonwealth of Nations
Unit IV
Cyber Crimes & Legal Framework, Cyber Crimes against Individuals, Institution and State,
Hacking, Digital Forgery, Cyber Stalking/Harassment, Cyber Pornography, Identity Theft &
Fraud, Cyber terrorism, Cyber Defamation, Different offences under IT Act, 2000
Unit V
Dispute Resolution in Cyberspace 1.Concept of Jurisdiction 2. Indian Context of Jurisdiction and
IT Act, 2000. 3. International Law and Jurisdictional Issues in Cyberspace. 4. Dispute
Resolutions
References:
1. S. R. Bhansali, Information Technology Act, 2000, University Book House Pvt. Ltd.,
Jaipur (2003).
2. Vasu Deva, Cyber Crimes and Law Enforcement, Commonwealth Publishers, New
Delhi, (2003)
3. SudhirNaib, The Information Technology Act, 2005: A Handbook, OUP, New York,
(2011)
4. Verma S, K, Mittal Raman, Legal Dimensions of Cyber Space, Indian Law Institute, New
Delhi, (2004)
16GMBN42 Economic Analysis & Decision Making 4003
Outcomes:
To understand the basic elements of managerial economics aspects of firm and SSI
To understand the role of manager, so as to manage or organize FOP
To forecast demand for a product
To know what to produce, where to, when to, how to, for whom to
To frame policy for production to minimize the cost and maximum the profit
To construct the cost function
To understand the basics of market structures and their environment
To prepare capital budget
To know the basic theories related to business practices
To enable them to take a decision with given business situation in order to make
effective management
To prepare a case study report on demand prediction for a product and capital budget
and cost analysis.
Unit 1
Introduction to Managerial Economics; The roles of the firm and the House hold, Decision
Making in the Household, Consumer Choice, Theory of Demand; its Determination, Estimation
and Forecasting
Unit II
Decision Making in the Firm , Production, Cost, Supply : its Determination and Derivation,
Equilibrium in Different Market Structures
Unit III
Competitive markets- Equilibrium in the short run and long-run, Monopoly equilibrium and
pricing practices of firms with market power, Oligopoly: Strategic interactions and its game
theoretic analysis
Unit IV
Analysis of the Markets for Factor Inputs, The Economics of Information, The problem of
Adverse Selection z Moral Hazard problem, Market Failure z Externalities, Public Goods
Unit V
Finance for Development, Trade and Development, State and the Market, Privatisation and
Regulation, Institutions and Growth
References
Course outcome:
CO -1: To analyze the main structural features of an industryand develop strategies that position
the firm most favorably in relation to competition.
CO -2: To recognize the different stages of industry evolution and recommend strategies
appropriate to each stage.
CO -3: To appraise the resources and capabilities of the firmin terms of their ability to confer
sustainable competitive advantage.
CO -4: To demonstrate understanding of the concept of competitive advantage and its sources
and the ability to recognize it in real-world scenarios.
CO -5: To distinguish the two primary types of competitive advantage:cost and differentiation
and formulate strategies to create a cost and/or a differentiation advantage.
CO -6: To analyze dynamics in competitive rivalry including competitiveaction and response,
and first-mover advantage.
CO -7: To formulate strategies for exploiting international business opportunities including
foreign entry strategies and international location of production.
CO -8: To explain how to formulate strategies thatleverage a firm’s core competencies.
CO -9: To demonstrate the ability to think critically in relation to aparticular problem, situation
or strategic decision through real-world scenarios.
CO -10: To recognize strategic decisions that present ethical challenges and make appropriate
recommendations for ethical decision-making.
UNIT - I. Introduction to Strategic Management 12
The Importance of Strategic Management - Schools of thought in Strategic Management -
Strategy Content, Process and Roles -The Fit Concept and the Configurational Perspective in
Strategic Management - Dimensions and Levels of Strategy
UNIT – II Competitive Strategy 12
Five Forces that Shape Strategy - Generic Strategies - Generic Strategies and the Value Chain-
Mission and business definition - Environmental Scanning- Analyzing industry and competition
- internal appraisal - concepts, techniques and cases.
UNIT –III Corporate Strategy 12
The Motive for Diversification - Related and Unrelated Diversification - Business Portfolio
Analysis Strategy formulation- Types of strategies - Integration, intensive, diversification, and
defensive strategies - strategic analysis -comparative cost analysis, operating and financial
analysis.
UNIT- IV Strategy Implementation 12
Structure, Systems and People - The 7S Framework Strategy Choice-criteria and process-
Routes for executing strategy. Strategy implementation - Role of organizational structure,
Culture and Leadership, Strategy and Social Responsibility.
UNIT -V Recent Advances 12
Core Competence as the Root of Competitive Advantage - Business Processes and Capabilities-
based Approach to Strategy .Strategy review, evaluation and control- Auditing - Using
computers to evaluate strategies; strategy for entrepreneurial ventures and small business.
Strategy for non-profit organizations.
Reference Books:-
1. Henry and Quinn, J.B. The Strategy Process, Prentice-Hall, Harlow, 1988..
2.Ghemawat, Pankaj (Spring 2002). "Competition and Business Strategy in Historical
Perspective".
3. Hill, Charles W.L., Gareth R. Jones, Strategic Management Theory: An Integrated Approach,
Cengage Learning, 10th edition 2012
4 Lamb, Robert, Boyden Competitive strategic management, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-
Hall, 1984
5. Drucker, Peter The Practice of Management, Harper and Row, New York, 1954.
6. Markides, Constantinos “A dynamic view of strategy” Sloan Management Review, vol 40,
spring 1999,
7. Moncrieff, J. “Is strategy making a difference?” Long Range Planning Review, vol 32spring
1999.
16GMBN33 FINANCIAL PLANNING, DATA MODELLINGAND MINING 4003
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• To teach students the techniques and tools useful for financial planning and analysis in
today’s financial and economic scenario.
• To improve students’ technical and interpersonal skills through the use of case studies.
• To engender the required analytical knowledge and skills in order to develop proficient
financial planners.
• To nurture and groom the aspirants in order to match the requirement of the financial
industry.
• To know how to derive meaning form huge volume of data and information
• To understand how knowledge discovering process is used in business decision making.
Course Outcomes:
CO1 - Provide solutions assessments and validation to a broad range of financial
securities concepts including t-bills, bonds, debentures, common and preferred shares,
equities and financial derivatives.
CO2 - Document, manage, understand and communicate all aspects of the personal
financial process and its components and steps.
CO3 - Use a financial calculator in determining the time value of money.
CO4 - Understand fundamental and technical analysis and discuss investment theory and
financial economics and strategic decision making through planning.
CO5 - Understand data mining principles and techniques: Introduce DM as a cutting edge
business
CO6 - Intelligence method and acquaint the students with the DM techniques for building
competitive advantage through proactive analysis, predictive modelling, and identifying
new trends and behaviours.
C07 - Learning how to gather and analyze large sets of data to gain useful business
understanding.
CO8 - Learning how to produce a quantitative analysis report/memo with the necessary
information to make decisions.
CO9 - Describing and demonstrating basic data mining algorithms, methods, and tools
CO10 - Identifying business applications of data mining
UNIT 1: Introduction to financial planning
Financial planning – meaning, Scope, Objectives and Characteristics – Factors influencing
financial planning – Essentials, Significance and limitations of financial planning – Estimation of
capital requirement – Over capitalization and under capitalization – Time value of money.
UNIT 2: Financial planning system and model
Steps in financial planning - Principles of financial plan – Risk return trade off – Financial
planning system in a firm – Strategic decision making and planning –Strategic financial planning
– Constructing a financial model.
UNIT 3: Data mining
Data mining – Evolution – Steps in data mining – Data warehouse – Techniques in data mining –
Applications targeted in data mining – Major issues –Data pre-processing – Data warehousing –
Difference between traditional database and data warehouse –Multi dimensional data model –
Market based analysis – Classification and prediction of data