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.
Data is a powerful raw material for business analytics, but ensuring data quality is critical to success.
This micro-credential is ideal for mid to late-career ICT professionals who want the tools, knowledge and strategic perspective to more effectively manage data quality and integration within an organisation.
Discover how to source and prepare data
Explore how data should be sourced and fed into data stores. Investigate the intricacies of sourcing, moving and preparing data for analytics, and discuss the tools and critical success factors for effective data integration.
Understand how to ensure data quality
Understand the importance of data quality and how your organisation can set targets to ensure you get it right. Explore tools and frameworks for managing data quality, and examine how data governance can contribute to better outcomes.
Develop a data strategy for an organisation
Using your new knowledge, you'll develop a strategy that briefs staff on the progressive use of an organisation’s data for analytics. This will reflect the strategic planning and investment implications that organisations need to consider, and could be applied to your 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 designed in close consultation with industry and leverages best practices, especially regarding 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 better understanding of how organisations should manage data. You'll be able to:
Discuss and reflect upon the intricacies of sourcing and preparing data for analytics
Explain the importance of data quality for analytics in organisations
Analyse issues that organisations face when sourcing data for analytics initiatives.
Workload and assessment
This course runs over four weeks, including two weeks of learning and two weeks for assessment.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
8 hours guided online learning
13 hours self-guided study
21 hours assessment tasks.
Assessment:
Data strategy development: develop a data strategy for an organisation (real or imagined) that briefs staff in the progressive use of the organisation’s data for analytics (100%).
Your digital certificate
Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Strategic Data Management 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
Strategic Data Management 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 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 due to the changing nature of the technology landscape.
