Indian Institute of Management

Lucknow

POST GRADUATE PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT

I.T.01101
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS
COURSE OUTLINE
TERM - 1, 2015-16
Instructor and Contact Information
NAME: PRADEEP KUMAR AND VIVEK GUPTA
E-MAIL: PRADEEPKUMAR@IIML.AC.IN, VIVEKG@IIML.AC.IN
OFFICE: 219/221 , CHINTAN BLOCK, IIM CAMPUS
OFFICE TEL: 0522-6696657/0522-6696610

COURSE CREDIT : 0.5

15 sessions of one hour each:

COURSE DESCRIPTION
With todays technology, companies are able to collect tremendous amount of data with relative ease. In
fact many companies have more data than they can handle. Operationally this calls for a disciplined
thinking process that involves capturing, transformation, abstraction, design of alternatives, to approach a
decision making situation. However, the data are usually meaningless until they are analyzed for trends,
patterns, relationships and other useful information. All managers need to analyze data and make
quantitative and logic based decisions in their job. Use of computer based models can help a decision
maker immensely in all of these.
The prime objective of this course is to enable the student to develop capability in generating insights via
modeling in a wide range of realistic situations. This course offers hands on, example based approach and
introduces fundamental concepts using the spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel 2013.

COURSE OBJECTIVE
Enabling managers to understand and apply:
Problem Solving and Decision Making using Excel
Managing a spreadsheet development project

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course the student should be able to:
1) Appreciate the role of MS- Excel in solving business problems
2) Develop a decision support system using MS-Excel

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-23) Build a effective presentation of business data

4) Perform What if analysis: Goal seek, Scenario Manager, Data Table
5) Solve Optimization problem while modeling the worksheet
6) Generating reports using Pivot Tables and Subtotals
7) Summarizing data in one worksheet from multiple worksheets
8) Securing worksheets while sharing

ALIGNMENT OF INTENDED PROGRAM & COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

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Programme Objectives

To acquire knowledge and skills in key functional areas

Course Learning (CL)

outcomes
CL 1 -8

To integrate and apply business knowledge

CL 1-8
CL 1-8

To develop a global perspective

CL 1- 8

To inculcate values of professionalism, ethical leadership and

social responsiveness

CL 1-8

To master relational and interpersonal communication skills

CL 3

To internalize the knowledge and skills in key functional areas

REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS AND READINGS

TEXTBOOK
Wayne L Winston; Microsoft Excel 2013: Data Analysis and business Modeling, Microsoft Press, PHI, 2014

EVALUATION
Exams: There will be one examination.

GRADING SCHEME
End Term Exam (fixed)
Quizzes
Assignments
Lab Practice
Total

60%
20%
10%
10%
100%

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
Academic dishonesty or misconduct is cheating that relates to an academic activity. It is a violation of
trust between the Institute and its stakeholders. Plagiarism, fabrication, deception, cheating and sabotage
are examples of unacceptable academic conduct. Please consult the PGP Manual for the section on academic
dishonesty

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COURSE SCHEDULE

Session

Topics to be covered in the course

Readings and
Book Chapter

Assessment
Criteria

Enabling Effective Decision Making in Organizations

Data, Information and Knowledge, Decision Dimensions,
Decision Types, and Decision Support Systems (DSS)

Provided by
Instructor

In-Class-MCQ

Spreadsheet Management
Range Names, Addressing , Circularity, Paste-special,
Auditing toolbar, Filtering, Sorting, Removing Duplicates,
Protecting, Hiding

Ch 1, 10, 13,
15, 24, 49

Assignment +
Practice Exercises
covering sessions
2-15

Data Acquisition and storage

TABLES, Import Data, Summarising and Consolidating Data

Ch 25, 38-39,
48, 50

Practice exercise

Lookup Functions-I
Referencing, VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP

Ch 2

Practice exercise

Lookup Functions-II
INDEX, MATCH, OFFSET, INDIRECT

Ch 3, 4, 21, 22

Practice exercise

Text Functions
LEFT, RIGHT, MID TRIM, LEN, FIND, SEARCH, REPT,
CONCATENATE, &, REPLACE, VALUE, UPPER, LOWER,
PROPER, CHAR, CLEAN, SUBSTITUTE, etc.

Ch 5

Practice exercise

Date and Time Functions

DATE, DAY, EDATE, EOMONTH, MONTH, NETWORKDAYS,
NOW, TODAY, WEEKDAY, WORKDAY, YEAR, etc.

Ch 6

Practice exercise

Logical Functions-I
AND, OR, NOT, FALSE, TRUE, IF, and IFERROR

Ch 11

Practice exercise

Logical Functions-II
COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK,
SUMIF, AVERAGEIF, SUMIFS, and AVERAGEIFS functions

Ch 19-20

Practice exercise

10

Sensitivity (What If) Analysis

Data Tables (1-and 2-input), Goal seek, Scenario Manager

Ch 16-18

Practice exercise

11

Optimization using Excel Solver

Examples: Optimal product mix, scheduling workforce,
transportation, capital budgeting, financial planning, etc.

Ch 28-36

Practice exercise

12

Describing Data
Histograms, Pivot tables, PowerPivot, Power View, Subtotals

Ch 41-46, 51

Practice exercise

13

Effective Data Display-I

Conditional Formatting

Ch 23

Practice exercise

14

Effective data display-II

Sparklines, Charts

Ch 47, 52

Practice exercise

15

Recording/ Editing macros and Course Review

Provided by
Instructor

Practice exercise