Course Description
Introduction – Description of Production Systems. Demand Forecasting. Presentation of the Modern Supply Chain and its Coordination. Quantitative and Temporal Production Planning. Inventory Management and Replenishment Policies. Determination of Optimal Production or Order Quantity. Pricing and Revenue Management. Discount Planning. Decision-Making Processes under Uncertainty.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the scope, tasks, “building blocks” of Operations Management, and its international dimension. Analyse how organizations function from a process perspective of interconnected tasks and activities that often span geographical borders,
- Understand, apply, analyse, and evaluate a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods used to address and solve operations, process and supply chain problems and inform decision-making in support of the strategic priorities of an organization,
- Analyse and appraise how operations impact on competitiveness, productivity, and strategy in organizations with both local and global presence,
- Evaluate state-of-the art operations concepts and strategies with the objective to develop strategic recommendations for improving operations and design appropriate supply chain strategies for products/services with distinct characteristics of demand and supply.
Course Description
Introduction – Description of Production Systems. Demand Forecasting. Presentation of the Modern Supply Chain and its Coordination. Quantitative and Temporal Production Planning. Inventory Management and Replenishment Policies. Determination of Optimal Production or Order Quantity. Pricing and Revenue Management. Discount Planning. Decision-Making Processes under Uncertainty.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the scope, tasks, “building blocks” of Operations Management, and its international dimension. Analyse how organizations function from a process perspective of interconnected tasks and activities that often span geographical borders,
- Understand, apply, analyse, and evaluate a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods used to address and solve operations, process and supply chain problems and inform decision-making in support of the strategic priorities of an organization,
- Analyse and appraise how operations impact on competitiveness, productivity, and strategy in organizations with both local and global presence,
- Evaluate state-of-the art operations concepts and strategies with the objective to develop strategic recommendations for improving operations and design appropriate supply chain strategies for products/services with distinct characteristics of demand and supply.
Course Description
• Introduction to Python Programming language
• Ordering Problems
• Traveling Salesman Problem
• Vehicle Routing Problem
• Assignment Problems
• 1-D Bin Packing Problem
• Linear Sum Assignment Problem
• Graph Colouring Problem
• Quadratic Assignment Problem
• Selection Problems
• Set Covering Problem
• Weighted Set Covering Problem
• Knapsack Problem
• Shortest Path Problem
• Local Search
• Local Search Metaheuristics
• Classification Problems
• Clustering Problems
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the operational and strategic goals and constraints that govern the business problems solved during the class
- Distinguish the computational properties and computational characteristics of business problems
- Select and suggest the appropriate heuristic and metaheuristic techniques to solve the aforementioned problems
- Design heuristic and metaheuristic techniques to solve business problems involving big data
- Compare the efficiency of the above heuristic and metaheuristic methods
- Develop the above heuristic and metaheuristic methods in Python
- Develop basic machine learning algorithms for classification and clustering problems
Course Description
The purpose of this course is to understand the significance of Management Science techniques and Information Systems in the contemporary business environment so that business management can make the right decisions by utilizing modern Management Science techniques and Information and Communication Technologies. The course emphasizes both on practical/technical issues (assuming the student has some technical familiarity with informatics) and issues surrounding the integration of informatics within the organization, the use of information systems based on their capabilities and their impact on individuals and structures, as well as the management of information resources in an organization.
More specifically, the course content includes two main sections:
• The importance, role, use, and utilization of Information Systems in Organizations and their transformation as a result of the use of Digital Technologies. Specifically, this includes three subsections:
a. The importance of informatics for organizations, covering topics such as: principles of information systems management, strategic information systems, business process reengineering and informatics, the role of informatics in change management, alignment of business and IT policy, and management of information resources.
b. The use and utilization of informatics, covering topics such as: business decision support, operational support, data and knowledge management, process integration, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and e-commerce.
c. Digital transformation and the role of informatics, with topics such as: the concept of business organization and administration, the transition from classical to electronic business activities, business process reengineering (BPR), organizational improvement technologies, and the impact of informatics on competition and cooperation.
• The practical training in digital platforms for managing significant resources in organizations. In particular, this refers to Customer Relationship Management (CRM systems) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP systems). Learning the digital CRM/Salesforce platform adopts the gamified learning platform Trailhead, meeting the required quality standards and covering the necessary material that leads to certifications. This curriculum includes the following subsections, which are examined through practical exercises and projects on the Salesforce digital platform (50 badges to be acquired through the trailmix learning path DMST Trailmix | Salesforce Trailhead):
a. Familiarization, operation, and customization of the platform
b. Sales, marketing, and customer service automation
c. Reporting, data visualization, and business analytics
d. Data/user security and management
e. Data and process modeling.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able:
• To comprehend the basic dimensions of the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in organizations and the main issues that are associated with their effective exploitation
• To acquire the necessary conceptual background, in order to comprehend the issues that managers deal with, regarding ICTs
• To familiarize with the main functions of appropriate management of information systems (IS) in organizations and the fundamental theoretical and practical models that lead to the management of those operations
• To comprehend how ICTs affect the organizational structure of businesses and their relations with the business environment
• To provide students with practical experience of using Information Systems at real-life business scenarios
Course Description
Work & Organizational Psychology is an area of applied psychology. It investigates employees’ interaction at workplace using social sciences’ theories and research designs, exploring simultaneously relationships amongst employees. The course is designed to offer an introduction to the field of work and organizational psychology in relations to courses such as Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour and Leadership.
The course content is based on the analysis of the basic principles and applications of work and organizational psychology. The individual disciplines-units that will be developed are psychometric assessment and measurement of individual differences, social psychology, job satisfaction and work stress, etc.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use the models, constructs and practical implications of organizational psychology in order to perform more effectively at work in benefit of themselves and their organizations.
Course Description
• Introduction to algorithms
• Complexity
• Data structures (stacks, queues, priority queues, lists, trees, heaps, hash tables, graphs)
• Shortest paths
• Compression
• Cryptography (symmetric, public key)
• Task scheduling
• PageRank
• Strongest paths
• Searching
• Sorting
• Information
• Entropy
• Introduction to Machine Learning, Classification, Decision Trees
• Randomized Algorithms
• String matching
• Python Programming