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
Showcase your capabilities with an industry recognised digital certificate you can share with your professional network. See an example certificate
What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Our world is rich with data, but is your organisation using it to its best advantage?
This micro-credential is ideal for mid to late-career ICT professionals seeking a strong grounding in data storage and the function of analytics, and how these practices can help organisations gain a competitive edge.
Examine how data functions in organisations
Examine how organisations use data and discuss and define the concepts of analytics, decision making and data warehousing.
Explore how analytics can guide decision-making
Consider the role of data analytics in organisational decision-making and analyse the issues organisations face in adopting it. Learn how to make recommendations about how an organisation can best use analytics to drive competitive advantage.
Gain tools to design better data storage
Consider trends in information architecture for business analytics, and explore conceptual and logical data warehouse architecture options. Discover how to evaluate an organisation's data store and consider key challenges and potential trade-offs when making storage design decisions.
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 skill sets.
It is recommended that learners commencing this micro-credential have:
a bachelor's degree and a minimum of two years of IT-related work experience
OR
five years of IT-related work experience.
Relevance to your job and industry
This micro-credential is designed in close consultation with 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 own professional context.
Skills and learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of how data and analytics function within organisations. You'll be able to:
Critically evaluate the role of analytics in an organisation
Evaluate a range of architecture options and analyse data storage challenges for analytics operations
Analyse issues that organisations face in adopting data analytics for decision-making
Make recommendations on how an organisation can gain a competitive advantage by adopting data analytics.
Workload and assessment
This course runs over four weeks, including two weeks of teaching, and two weeks for assessment.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
8 hours guided online learning
13 hours independent study
21 hours assessment tasks.
Assessment:
Online discussion contributions (30%)
Annotated presentation exploring your understanding of data storage and analytics in organisations (70%).
Your digital certificate
Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Strategic Data in Organisations 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 personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.
Pathways to further study
Strategic Data in Organisations can be taken as a stand-alone course, or complemented with any other Melbourne MicroCert 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 Sytems. 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 master's.
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 as particular knowledge and/or skills may need to be refreshed.
