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

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.

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.

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%)

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.

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.

Leveraging Organisational Data includes:

• Strategy in a Disruptive Environment
• Strategic Data in Organisations
• Strategic Data Management
• Analytics and Organisational Impact.

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.

This micro-credential will expire five years from the date of issue due to the changing nature of the technology landscape.