Description
Course Outline
Description
Course Overview:
This course is designed for executives seeking to foster a data-driven culture within their organization through informed leadership. Leaders will learn need-to-know vocabulary for describing and asking informed questions about data initiatives, from the different roles that make up a data team to the data analysis techniques available. Through a series of interactive exercises and breakout discussions, this course will help executives better navigate the data components of their job and empower them to effect strategic data-driven innovation at an organizational level.
Prerequisite:
No background in math or data analysis is required. We recommend that attendees have experience managing teams.
Audience:
Professionals in corporate
Course Outline
Topic 1: Enabling data maturity
- Defining data and data analytics
- Locating data within your organization
- Evaluating organizational data culture
Topic 2: Managing quality data
- Supporting data-driven projects through governance
- Appraising the ethics of data use from collection to application
- Improving data maturity through projects
Topic 3: Identifying required resources
- Defining common data tools by name and purpose
- Recognizing key roles on data teams
- Comparing tool sets and team structures
Topic 4: Understanding data projects
- Describing the major stages of a typical data science process
- Situating the executive within data projects
- Identifying key methods in data analytics
- Outlining a data project for potential implementation
