CIM 605 — Business Intelligence
Communications and Information Management
3 Credits
Business Intelligence is a process that helps managers make evidence-based, rational decisions by applying an analytic approach to decision making. Good business decisions should lead to efficient operations, effective utilization of scarce resources, satisfied customers, and increased profits. The course examines two logical components of management information system: the structured decision system which lends itself to providing actual computer-generated decisions, and decision support systems, in which computer-based systems aid decision makers in confronting problems through direct interaction with data and analytic models. Several of the topics covered in this course include: decision theory, data warehousing and data mining, business analytics (i.e., descriptive and predictive statistics), rational and behavioral economic theories of decision-making.
