81504 - System Dynamics and Control (Laboratory)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Accounting (cod. 0900)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows how to use a modelling superstructure (System Dynamics) to support multidimensional control systems and how to correlate to it appropriate rewarding/incentive mechanisms for the company management.

Course contents

- The role of the management consultant
- The management control system, stages, actors, instruments
- Cost analysis to support management consulting
- The multidimensional reporting system and business intelligence
- Development of case studies in the classroom using BI tools (Microsoft Power BI)

Readings/Bibliography

The teaching material is composed of lectures and exercises provided directly by the teacher

Assessment methods

Written examination consisting of theoretical questions and illustration of a practical case

Teaching tools

It will be used the software of business intelligence Microsoft Power BI, for the realization of the informative dashboards connected with the presented business cases

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Capodaglio