Business Data Analytics

Description

The course provides participants with a deep understanding of the nature of business data analytics, and a practical toolkit on how to transform internal (in-house) and external big datasets into business assets. Our focus is on exploring and exploiting different strategic and tactical frameworks to generate business value from in-house and external big data sets for increasing competitiveness in the local and global marketplaces.

After having attended this course, you will gain knowledge about three specific aspects of business data analytics (a) the three paradigms for generating competitive advantages and business value from new technologies, (b) the strategic framework for transforming big data sets into business assets by creating meaningful facts, actionable insights, valuable outcomes, and sustainable impacts co-developed by the Centre for Business Data Analytics (cbsBDA), Copenhagen Business School and Centre for Digital Enterprise Analytics and Leadership (DEAL) at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, and (c) selected illustrative examples of business data analytics and business value creation. The course furthermore focus on the importance of providing evidence to sustain managerial claims, applying an analytical process that covers all activities from problem formulation to result communication, reflection on the potential pitfalls, and how to manage or mitigate them.

In complex, volatile and sometimes hostile environments, it is necessary for organizations to work professionally with their communication. Increasingly, therefore, organizations consider and handle communication as a strategic management issue. As a consequence, communication tasks increasingly go beyond formal organizational boundaries and involve many different professional disciplines.

The course presents and discusses the practical implications of these changes by drawing on a variety of literatures, including theories of strategy, organization, public relations, marketing and management.

The aim is to make it possible for participants to understand how organizations work with strategic communication in practice, how they seek to communicate more effectively and how different ways of communicating shape an organization and its relationships with the outside world.

Key themes in the course:
Holistic thinking in communication and strategy
Increased world complexity
Stakeholder perspective on the company's communication
Issues management and crisis communication
Interaction between internal and external communication
The company's communicative and strategic resources
The relationship between speech and action
Openness and transparency.

Please read the admission requirements for the course here: Admission Requirements

Copenhagen Business School, MBD