Analytics for Business Decision Making - Summer '23

BUS4045
Closed
George Brown College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
BC
Professor
General
  • Undergraduate
  • 39 learners; teams of 4
  • 400 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 2/2 project matches
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
  • Incubator, Large enterprise, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Social enterprise
  • Any
Categories
Data Data analysis Data modelling Machine learning Databases Data science
Skills
project proposals preparing executive summaries advanced analytics decision making
Project timeline
  • July 10, 2023
    Experience start
  • August 31, 2023
    Experience end
Overview
Details

Many organization face the challenges of developing information into knowledge, and then converting that intelligence into actionable decisions. Organizations demand the interdisciplinary skills of professionals that can find insights through data, and are capable of telling stories about data that can assist decision makers across various business divisions. More importantly, students will be able to create a narrative on how advanced analytical techniques can be used to provide actionable business solutions.


Your company can be part of a project by accepting to assign a task to a multidisciplinary team of students for a term of 12 weeks.


Learner skills
Project proposals, Preparing executive summaries, Advanced analytics, Decision making
Deliverables

· 10 Deliverables over a 15 week engagement period that include:

· A project proposal document

· A fully detailed written report

· An on-site executive summary presentation

Project Examples

What is included?

· Up to a 4 student multi-disciplinary teams

· 400 Hours of work or more

· A Supervising professor who supports the students and guides the project

· 10 Deliverables over a 15 week engagement period that include:

· A project proposal document which includes:

  • background and introductions
  • problem definition and challenge
  • data requirements and data sources
  • methodology and approach
  • detailed analytical output regarding the use of both advanced and non-advanced analytics with key findings and insights, and how they benefit the organization
  • recommendations and conclusions

· An on-site executive summary presentation


Types of Projects

· Development of Reporting Dashboards with drill down analytical capabilities

· Development of predictive analytics solutions using machine learning techniques which include use of artificial intelligence

· Customer Segmentation Development including clustering-type solutions

· Customer Relationship Management Campaign Design and Implementation