Contents :

Preface

1. Managemenet in organisation

2. Problems, decision support systems and decision making

3. Structural modelling and scenarios

4. Types of model and their classification

5. Stages in mathematical modelling

6. Summary models

7. The manager-modeller interaction

8. Model validation

9. Guidelines for mathematical modelling

10. Models involving basic algebra

11. Financial planning models

12. Investment appraisal

13. Queueing models

14. Simulation

15. Stock control

16. Linear programming

17. Forecasting

18. The next steps for the manager

19. The next steps for the prospective specialist modeller

Appendix A : Impression and data modelling

Appendix B : Quantitative levels of measurement

Appendix C : Forecasting : exponentially weighted moving averages