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About the Course

This course is designed to impact the way you think about transforming data into better decisions. Recent extraordinary improvements in data-collecting technologies have changed the way firms make informed and effective business decisions. The course on operations analytics, taught by three of Wharton’s leading experts, focuses on how the data can be used to profitably match supply with demand in various business settings. In this course, you will learn how to model future demand uncertainties, how to predict the outcomes of competing policy choices and how to choose the best course of action in the face of risk. The course will introduce frameworks and ideas that provide insights into a spectrum of real-world business challenges, will teach you methods and software available for tackling these challenges quantitatively as well as the issues involved in gathering the relevant data. This course is appropriate for beginners and business professionals with no prior analytics experience....

Top reviews

EW

Apr 26, 2020

Excellente course. Very challenging especially for beginners. The motivation to achieve my final goal of reinventing myself professionally, makes every challenge a welcome experience. Thanks Coursera!

PK

Oct 11, 2019

An exceptionally organized course with sufficient examples, it provides an in depth analysis of the concepts introduced (optimization, decision trees, forecasting, simulations) and of the tools used.

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By Denis G

Dec 16, 2015

It is needed more assingments

By Azeez A

Jan 24, 2023

Interesting and Enlightening

By Bahman A S

Jun 6, 2016

Excellent but not complete

By Brian V

Aug 9, 2019

Very Good. Learned a lot.

By Zaheer

Jun 22, 2021

enjoyed the challenge

By Manikandan R

Aug 23, 2017

Crisp and succinct

By Seshu B V

Jan 14, 2016

Simple and easy to

By Yew C C

Jul 19, 2016

Useful use cases.

By Yusak A

Apr 11, 2023

too many figures

By Cher L

May 2, 2020

Good materials.

By Nazatul A B A R

Jun 29, 2017

Course is good.

By Vivek G

Feb 26, 2019

VERY helpful

By SHAHID A

Jun 4, 2020

nice course

By Gunay A

Jun 7, 2020

perfect

By Rahul B

Jul 21, 2020

Thank

By arup k d

Sep 19, 2016

great

By ayush t

Feb 4, 2020

nice

By Rama K

Jan 25, 2023

👍

By David P

May 10, 2018

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By Trond H

Jun 17, 2017

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By Sharath B

Jan 29, 2016

Hi,

I am someone who works in Sales & Operations Planning and thus have experience in the field of Operations. I have taken other courses from Wharton, namely Prof Terwiesch's course on Operations Management and thus have a comparative reference in rating this course.

The course videos were good and I am looking forward to reviewing the case examples once again, but I was hoping for mode in depth discussion on key metrics and analytics in Operations. The course only provided an introduction to everyday concepts of Operations Management. The review quizzes were underwhelming since they only scratched at the surface of the concepts and were not challenging enough, the quiz of week 3 was a prime example where I felt application of algebra was being tested and not the concept of optimization itself.

That being said, the videos were excellent and detailed introduction to the concepts and the pace was well suited to make someone comfortable with the topics being discussed.

Thank You Coursera and Wharton team for providing this course. I look forward to attending more courses from Coursera and Wharton.

By Jingxia P

Jan 14, 2016

The content is too simplified, basically only three points introduced : how to do operation analytics, simulation and optimization ( by excel) . The quiz is not challenging at all. No further essay or maths involved.

In real world, the content is taught within 4 hours class time, which is at most content for no more than two first weeks for an undergraduate similar courses.

Challenge us please! Brain torture us. No one will complain it is too hard for them to learn coz we are here to learn, and after all, this is Wharton!!

But if it is too simplified to learn? Hmmm.....

Hope Penn guys can enhance the quality of content later.

By Emmanuel J A

Jul 4, 2023

I learned a lot of practical skills in this course. Excellent discussions. Existing activities were enough to teach me the skills I was expecting to acquire, but I wish there were more practical exercises to better highlight the value of operations research. I also like how the course contents were arranged, particularly in how the last lesson ultimately tied back to the main newsvendor problem presented at the start.

By Tanguy V

Nov 9, 2015

this mooc is pretty well structured and is aimed to beginners in solver & random number generation. If you're looking for technical skills, it's ok. Don't expect any feedback from any Wharton ppl/ mentor if you have any question.

Videos are pretty long (sooo slooow sometimes), teachers there keep on repeating themselves. The good thing is you'll probably interiorize some key concepts.

By Deepa M

Dec 8, 2016

This is a tough course to complete. It took me a few trials and couple of revision sessions for the course material to understand all the concepts along with additional research and content study. But now I can confidently talk about operations analytics in my industry and help our clients in the future. Thank you to all the professors and Wharton for creating the course curriculum.