Bøker av Roy Nersesian

Writing for managers of planning, planners, and programmers, the author enables readers to gain an overall understanding of the potential role of simulation in planning, to apply simulation to their own particular needs, and to translate planning concepts into computer instructions.

A challenge to traditional forecasting methods that rely strictly on econometric models, arguing that they ignore a fundamental aspect of the business cycle - human emotional responses to economic stimuli.

Nersesian describes why current methods of risk management fail and how computer simulation can be employed to determine the safe level of debt more accurately. A quantified risk management system enables executives to rank projects by the degree of risk much as they currently rank them by degree of profitability.

Operations management is a set of disciplines that transform raw materials, labor and capital into finished goods and services.

A unique, practical guide to the power of simulation in the art of logistics management. Authors show better ways to manage complex logistics systems than seat of the pants decision making, and argue that information systems people must provide management with simulations that are timely and easily understood.

This completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling handbook on conventional and alternative