Data-Driven Decision Making

INF10021 12.5 Credit Points Hawthorn

Duration

  • One Semester or equivalent

Contact hours

  • 112 Hours

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.

2024 teaching periods

Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 2

Dates:
29 Jul 24 - 27 Oct 24

Results:
3 Dec 24

Last self enrolment:
11 Aug 24

Census:
31 Aug 24

Last withdraw without fail:
13 Sep 24

Aims and objectives

This unit prepares students to be able to review opportunities for making decisions in an organisational context. Key to this unit is to analyse ambiguous and unclear data and outputs, requiring diverse thinking and stakeholder engagement through the decision-making process.
This subject explores a range of means and methods to enable insights to be developed from data sets using a range of contemporary tools.


Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to

1. Define data-driven opportunity for efficient management and improvement of systems and processes
2. Identify and collect functional performance data using a range of tools
3. Prepare data for analysis, apply relevant tools and processes to represent results
4. Analyse the data using contemporary decision theories
5. Evaluate the analysis results against the context of the problem or opportunity
6. Present data to provide clear insights, possible options and tangible business recommendations