As a business leader in the modern age, you will be required to make data-driven strategic decisions every day. Your organization needs to leverage data and AI to learn about your customers and build a sustainable competitive advantage. It has become vital for business leaders to have the skills to lead the digital transformation in the organization, creating the capabilities and systems to support a data-driven culture. In this course, students will learn how leaders can empower their teams to make analytics-based workplace decisions with real time, actionable insights that give them full business visibility. This course aims to prepare students to become a competent data-driven project leader who can identify problems worth solving with data, gain leadership support and team buy-in and work with external experts to achieve business objectives.
Section A THEME: Strategic Technology Industry Environment
CASE: Cloud Wars Go Global: How Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba Compete in Web Services
Section B THEME: Strategic Technology Industry Environment (Continued)
CASE: How companies can practice ethical AI
Section A THEME: Big Data Organizational Transformation
CASE: Digitalization at Siemens
Section B THEME: Big Data Organizational Transformation (Continued)
Section A THEME: Team Leadership Challenges
CASE: Approach Your Data with a Product Mindset
Section B THEME: Team Leadership Challenges (Continued)
CASE: The five keys to a successful Google team
Section A THEME: Project Management Execution Excellence
CASE: Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap
Section B THEME: Group Presentation
CASE: N/A
*Due to the characteristics of the course, application of the substitute class and leave of absence system is not available.
