Indian Institute of Management

Sirmaur

POST GRADUATE PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT

I.T.01101
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS
COURSEOUTLINE
TERM - 1, 2016-17

Instructor and Contact Information

NAME: VIVEK GUPTA
E-MAIL: VIVEKG@IIML.AC.IN
OFFICE: 221 ,CHINTAN BLOCK, IIM CAMPUS
OFFICE TEL: 0522-6696657/0522-6696610

COURSE CREDIT : 0.5 ( Pre mid term) 15 sessions of one hour each:

COURSE DESCRIPTION

With today’s 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
3) Build a effective presentation of business data
4) Perform What if analysis: Goal seek, Scenario Manager, Data Table
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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

Sn. Programme Objectives Course Learning (CL)

outcomes
1 To acquire knowledge and skills in key functional areas
CL 1 -8
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To internalize the knowledge and skills in key functional areas CL 1-8
3 To integrate and apply business knowledge CL 1-8
4 To develop a global perspective CL 1- 8
5 To inculcate values of professionalism, ethical leadership and CL 1-8
social responsiveness
6 To master relational and interpersonal communication skills CL 3

REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS AND READINGS

TEXTBOOK

[GAN]Gross et al, Succeeding in Business with Microsoft Excel 2013, Cengage Learning.
[WW] Wayne L Winston Microsoft Excel 2013 Data Analysis and business Modeling, Microsoft Press
Polycopy to be given by the instructor

EVALUATION

 Exams:Therewillbeoneend term examination.There will be three quizzes out of which best

two will be considered for evaluation.

GRADING SCHEME

60%
End Term Exam (fixed)
30%
Quizzes
10%
Assignments
100%
Total

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 Readings and Assessment

covered in the course Book Chapter Criteria
1 Enabling EffectiveDecision Making in Organizations [GAN] Ch 1 In-Class-MCQ
Data, Information and Knowledge, DecisionDimensions,
Decision Types, and Decision Support Systems (DSS)
2 Spreadsheet Management [GAN] Ch 2 ,3 Assignment +
Range Names, Addressing , Circularity, Paste-special, Practice Exercises
Auditing toolbar, Filtering, Sorting, Removing Duplicates, [WW] Ch 1, ch covering sessions
Protecting, Hiding 10, ch 13, ch 2-15
15, ch 49
3 -4 Mathematical Functions [GAN] Ch 4, Practice exercise
1. COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, [WW] Ch19-20
SUMIF, AVERAGEIF, SUMIFS, and AVERAGEIFS functions
5 -6 Retrieving Data [GAN] Ch 5 Practice exercise
Referencing, VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH,
OFFSET, INDIRECT [WW] Ch3, 4,
21, 22, Ch 2,
ch 3, ch 4, ch
21, ch 22
7 Text Functions [GAN] Ch 7 Practice exercise
LEFT, RIGHT, MID TRIM, LEN, FIND, SEARCH, REPT, [WW] Ch 5
CONCATENATE, &, REPLACE, VALUE, UPPER, LOWER,
PROPER, CHAR, CLEAN, SUBSTITUTE, etc.
8 Date and Time Functions [GAN] Ch 7 Practice exercise
DATE, DAY, EDATE, EOMONTH, MONTH, NETWORKDAYS, [WW] Ch 6
NOW, TODAY, WEEKDAY, WORKDAY, YEAR, etc.
9 Logical Functions [GAN] Ch 4 Practice exercise
AND, OR, NOT, FALSE, TRUE, IF, and IFERROR [WW] Ch11
10
2. Data Acquisition and storage [GAN] Ch 7, Ch Practice exercise
TABLES, Import Data,Summarising and Consolidating Data 8
[WW] Ch 38,
ch 39, ch 50,
ch 48
11 Sensitivity(What If) Analysis [WW] Ch 16-18 Practice exercise
Data Tables (1-and 2-input), Goal seek, Scenario Manager
12 - 13 Describing Data [WW] Ch 41- Practice exercise
Histograms, Pivot tables, PowerPivot, Power View, Subtotals 46, 51
14- 15 Effective Data Display [GAN] Ch 3, Practice exercise
Conditional Formatting, Sparklines,Charts [WW] Ch23, Ch
47, 52