James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2007

CO2815 - Modelling Business Decisions

Credit points: 03
Year: 2007
Student Contribution Band: Band 2
Administered by: School of Business

Creating business intelligence requires an understanding of the business environment and an ability to capture, model and interpret the salient descriptors of that environment. This subject provides students with decision support theory and modelling skills that can be applied to develop models to support decision-making and understand intelligence emerging from expanding organizational information resources. Students will be required to develop the knowledge and skills to be able to build useful and error free computer-based decision models for a number of business problems.

Learning Outcomes

Graduate Qualities

Prerequisites:(CO1002 or CO1101) and CO1821
Inadmissible
Subject
Combinations:
CO3105

Availabilities

Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Coordinator: Mr Ben Jacobsen
Lecturer: Mrs Wendy Kerr.
Contact hours:
  • 13 hours lectures - Week2 1 - 13 1 Hr/Week
  • 12 hours tutorials - Weeks 2 - 13 1 Hr/Week
  • 26 hours workshops/Seminars - Weeks 1 - 13 2Hr/Week
    Assessment:other exams (40% - 50%); (% - 10%); assignments (50%).

    Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
    Census Date 30-Mar-2007
    Coord/Lect: Mr Ben Jacobsen.
    Contact hours:
    • 13 hours lectures - Weeks 1 - 13 1 Hr/week
    • 12 hours tutorials - Weeks 2 - 13 1 Hr/week
    • 26 hours workshops/Seminars - Weeks 1 - 13 2Hr/week
      Assessment:other exams (40% - 50%); (% - 10%); assignments (50%).

      JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22
      Census Date 31-Aug-2007
      Coord/Lect: Mr Ben Jacobsen.
      Contact hours:
      • 13 hours lectures - Weeks 1 - 13 1 Hr/week
      • 12 hours tutorials - Weeks 2 - 13 1 Hr/week
      • 26 hours workshops/Seminars - Weeks 1 - 13 2Hr/week
        Assessment:other exams (40% - 50%); (% - 10%); assignments (50%).

        JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23
        Census Date 14-Dec-2007
        Coord/Lect: Mr Ben Jacobsen.
        Contact hours:
        • 13 hours lectures - Weeks 1 - 13 1 Hr/week
        • 12 hours tutorials - Weeks 2 - 13 1 Hr/week
        • 26 hours workshops/Seminars - Weeks 1 - 13 2Hr/week
          Assessment:other exams (40% - 50%); (% - 10%); assignments (50%).

          Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.