Overview

This micro-unit examines the concepts, issues and challenges that are critical for implementing, maintaining and completing business analytics projects. Students will examine business analytics from a strategic perspective and examine how an organisation's industry, culture and structure influence the approach taken.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Demonstrate coherent and advanced knowledge of organisational strategy and the principles of business analytics and align these to project management.
  • Critically evaluate project management and business analytics practices, methodologies, tools and techniques.

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Class		8.00 1 week 8
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		2.00 2 weeks 4
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		7.00 4 weeks 28
TOTAL40

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 0% 1,2 

Content

  • The evolutionary process of business analytics implementation
  • Strategic planning and evaluation of business analytics projects
  • Use of and value of analytics in Business divisions, management functions, different management levels, performance management

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.