Develop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practice you can apply immediately.
Taught by leading experts
Learn from internationally recognised academics and professionals with years of on the ground experience.
Shareable digital certificate
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What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Strategically deployed analytics initiatives can transform business operations – but also raise key ethics and privacy questions.
This micro-credential is ideal for mid to late-career ICT professionals who want to future-proof their skillsets and gain a deeper understanding of how analytics can drive organisational success.
Examine the impact of various analytics
Explore the different types of analytics (descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, and real-time) and their impacts on business operations such as human resources, business processes, supply chains and finance. Learn how to apply these for success, as well as explain and justify a chosen analytics approach.
Investigate key ethical and privacy questions
Consider responsibilities regarding privacy of personal information and investigate the concepts of big data, identity and ethics. Identify the implications for analytics and decision making, and recommend strategies to mitigate risk.
Explore how analytics can drive competitive edge
Gain a deeper understanding of how organisations can better harness analytics to secure a competitive advantage. Use this knowledge to develop a pitch and proposal for a hypothetical analytics initiative that could be applied to your own professional context.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Dr Sean B. Maynard
Senior Lecturer
Sean is an expert in information security management and business analytics, gaining significant teaching and research experience in these areas during his career. His research areas include policy, culture, strategy, governance, risk, incident response and training, and how analytics can be utilised in these areas. His research has been published in leading journals, including Decision Sciences, Computers & Security and the International Journal of Information Management.
More from this series
Take multiple courses to deepen your knowledge or stack towards a full degree.
The Leveraging Organisational Data series
Designed in close collaboration with industry, this series explores the challenges related to data storage and how organisations can drive better outcomes by more effectively storing, using and managing data and analytics. It will help you leverage analytics to gain a competitive advantage in your market.
This series provides a pathway into the
Master of Information Systems.
See course details below for more information.
Explore more from the Leveraging Organisational Data series:
This micro-credential is ideal for mid to late-career ICT professionals seeking to advance their careers or future-proof their skillsets.
It is recommended that learners commencing this micro-credential have:
An undergraduate degree in any discipline plus two years of experience in IT-related work
Or
At least five years of experience in IT-related work.
You are encouraged to complete the following micro-credentials before undertaking this one, but this is not a prerequisite:
Strategic Data in Organisations
Relevance to your job and industry
This micro-credential is designed in close consultation with the industry and leverages best practices, especially about information systems strategy and disruptive technologies. Learning tasks have been designed to go beyond theory and enable you to apply your newfound practical skills and assessment task outcomes to your professional context.
Skills and learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of how analytics initiatives can drive better outcomes for organisations. You'll be able to:
Formulate an analytics initiative for an organisation, explaining and justifying the type of analytics approach chosen
Assess the organisational issues relating to ethics, privacy and identity, and recommend strategies to mitigate risk when dealing with strategic data.
Workload and assessment
This micro-credential runs over four weeks, which includes one week for orientation, two weeks of teaching, and one week for assessment.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
8 hours of guided learning
13 hours self-guided study
21 hours of assessment tasks.
Assessment:
Analytics initiative pitch (30%)
Analytics initiative presentation (70%)
Your digital certificate
Once you've completed this course, you will be awarded your Analytics and Organisational Impacts micro-credential. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your micro-credential digitally and via social media by adding it to your platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.
Pathways to further study
Analytics and Organisational Impacts can be taken as a stand-alone course, or complemented with any other micro-credential in the Leveraging Organisational Data series to deepen your knowledge and skills.
It offers a pathway, otherwise known as advanced standing, into the Master of Information Systems . To use it this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials in the Leveraging Organisational Data series, then apply for credit towards the masters.
In our innovative online learning environment, you’ll engage with other professionals and undertake learning activities such as narrative, discussion and personal reflection, examination of cutting-edge case studies, peer-to-peer learning and guided conversations. This course's fully online delivery offers a convenient way to develop your skillset, from a location that suits you.
Expiry of micro-credential
This micro-credential will expire five years from the date of issue due to the changing nature of the technology landscape.
