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Foundations of Operational Research (OR): Essential OR Skills for Practitioners
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Describe the role of soft and hard OR in the policy development cycle
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Apply a problem structuring technique to shape requests for analysis
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Identify sources of evidence and apply spreadsheet modelling to data to underpin analysis of a client problems
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Learn how to select a suitable OR technique for a range of structured problems , including the use of discrete event simulation and its role in what-if analysis
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Describe data presentation methods to achieve effective analysis
Overview
Off the shelf (OTS)
The aim of the course is to give people who are doing OR type analysis but have come in from a non-OR route an overview of the wider subject area. Many learners come into OR from a science, engineering or an IT route.
The aim of this course is to provide learners, who are working in OR but are from a non-OR background with an overview of the wider subject area. This course goes through some of the principle tools and techniques used in applied OR to give an insight into what they are and what problems they can be used to solve.
Delivery method
Virtual
Course duration
8 hours
Competency level
Foundation
Delivery method
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Virtual
Course duration
8 hours
Competency level
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Foundation
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