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Analytics for Competitive Advantage
 at 
Michigan State University 
Overview

Take this course and focus on the issues that drive innovation and value with a broad range view of business analytics

Duration

8 weeks

Total fee

1.88 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Analytics for Competitive Advantage
 at 
Michigan State University 
Highlights

  • Earn a masters certificate from Michigan State University
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Analytics for Competitive Advantage
 at 
Michigan State University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For professionals who want to create value and a competitive advantage using analytics
What are the course deliverables?
  • The way business analytics impacts organizational value creation
  • Why it is important to have a strategic analytics orientation
  • The role of a data scientist
  • How to identify the stages of analytics evolution
  • The challenges in creating an organizational analytics platform
More about this course
  • With the amount of internal and external information available today, successful managers need the ability to filter out the noise and hone in on the challenges that matter
  • Explore why digitized business processes and data analytics are essential to the performance and competitive advantage of a modern corporation.
  • Students will refine their ability to ask the right questions to avoid wasted time and effort solving for the wrong issues
  • Discover different approaches for strategic data management and business analytics as they examine real-world cases of successes and failures with analytics-based business strategies

Analytics for Competitive Advantage
 at 
Michigan State University 
Curriculum

Competing With Analytics

The way business analytics impacts organizational value creation

Why it is important to have a strategic analytics orientation

The role of a data scientist

How to identify the stages of analytics evolution

The challenges in creating an organizational analytics platform

Using Analytics to Create Value

What you should know about the changing data environment and its implications for business

The 4 Vs of data

What the 'Internet of Things-has to do with business analytics

How analytics impacts industries and firms

Enterprise Data Management & Analytical and Modeling Tools

The value of enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) and relational databases

What a data management lifecycle consists of

The differences between data storage and processing using structured vs. unstructured data

Statistical and modeling techniques for data analysis

Essentials of data mining

Value Chain and Business Analytics

The role of KPIs and the relationship between KPIs and analytics

Porter's Five Forces Model and how it can be used to identify analytics activities

Two strategic levers in applying analytics: changes in measuring customer engagement and computational computing

Porter's Value Chain

Marketing/Sales Valuation Processes

How analytics has and will continue to enhance marketing and sales processes

Specific marketing analytics activities that are increasingly used by many organizations today

Enterprise Risk, Supply Chain and HR Processes

Analytics value creation in the following areas:

Enterprise Risk Management

Finance

Accounting

Supply Chain

HR

Identifying & Defining Organizational Problems and Opportunities

Critical factors of enterprise analytics success

How to evaluate an appropriate enterprise analytics structure

How to manage an analytics project including value creation

The privacy and security challenges associated with business analytics

Telling the Story of the Data -Communication and Visualization

The importance of communication in the analytics process

The critical role of visualization in analytics

Different types of visualization approaches

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