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.
This course is intended for students who have interests in implementing Data Strategy and AI projects. By the end of this course, students should be able to understand:
Section A THEME: Strategic Technology Industry Environment
CASE: AI Wars
Section B THEME: Strategic Technology Industry Environment (Continued)
CASE: How to Implement Ethical AI Practices in Your Company
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: Total Credit Recovery Limited: Building a Progressive Data Analytics Team
Section B THEME: Team Leadership Challenges (Continued)
CASE: The five keys to a successful Google team
Section A THEME: Data and AI Project Management Execution Excellence
CASE: Recruit Japan: Harnessing Data to Create Value (Abridged)
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.