Data for Decision Makers
Unlock your full leadership potential through harnessing the power of data to drive organisational value and gain a strategic edge.
Data for Decision Makers Overview
Data for Decision Makers explores how leaders can strategically capitalise on their data to gain a competitive edge.
Companies have vast amounts of data about their customers, operations, and performance – but only a few harness its full potential.
By understanding the key data drivers of organisational value, you will learn to identify opportunities, ask the right questions of data experts, and make informed business decisions. You will then transform these insights into impactful decisions and elevate your performance to new heights.
Lead with data-driven confidence.
Who Should Attend Data for Decision Makers?
Executive-level professionals
- C-suite Executives, Senior Managers and Department Heads from mid-sized to large enterprises.
Middle to senior level leaders
- Strategy and Innovation Officers, Consultants, IT Leaders, and Professionals with the capacity to influence change in their workplace.
- Leaders who wish to better understand the benefits of data analytics and how to embed a data-driven decision-making culture or organisations undergoing digital transformation.
Data for Decision Makers Key Takeaways
Strategic mindset development
- Cultivate a strategic mindset that leverages data analytics to drive organisational value and gain a competitive edge.
Enhanced data literacy
- Elevate your understanding of data analytics, empowering you to ask the right questions and interpret insights effectively.
Leadership in data-driven culture
- Learn how to foster and lead a data-driven culture within your organisation, encouraging informed decision-making at all levels.
AI and advanced analytics strategy
- Gain insights into integrating artificial intelligence and advanced analytics into your business to unlock new opportunities.
Actionable strategic framework
- Leave with a customised strategic framework that integrates program concepts, enabling you to address your organisation's unique data challenges and opportunities effectively.
Data for Decision Makers Topics Covered
The Analytics Journey
Leveraging Data Analytics for Organisational Value
Data-Driven Decision Making
Balancing Intuition and Data
Descriptive Analytics
Correlation versus Causation
Power of Predictive Analytics
Prediction to Prescription
Artificial Intelligence
Data for Decision Makers Success Story
The Data for Decision Makers program was instrumental in showing our leaders how to leverage and unlock the power of data.
FRIEDERIKE HEINE
Luxury Division General Manager, L’Oréal
The MBS analytics program is a great opportunity for both leaders and the team to gain a firsthand immersion into understanding data and how it can be used.
RAYMOND LUI
Former Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, Bupa
Develop Data Analytics as a Strategic Enabler of Your Organisation
When it comes to training priorities for companies over the next five years, AI and big data ranks third and will be prioritised by 42% of surveyed companies (WEF, 2023).
Strengthen the loyalty of your leaders and invest in their ability to recognise, harness, and develop data. This investment will not only give you a competitive edge but also significantly enhance employee and customer acquisition and retention.
Volume booking discounts may be available for organisations registering multiple employees across a variety of our short courses over a 12-month period or talk to us about a customised version of this program tailored to suit your organisation's needs.
Organisations and individuals trust Melbourne Business School and the Centre for Business Analytics for their professional development needs because we always combine unparalleled subject expertise and academic rigour with a profound understanding of the contemporary business landscape.
YALÇIN AKÇAY
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Data for Decision Makers Facilitators
Professor Yalçın Akçay
PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND PROFESSOR OF OPERATIONS
Yalçın Akçay is a Professor of Operations and the Director of the Centre for Business Analytics at Melbourne Business School. He holds a dual-title PhD in Business Administration and Operations Research from Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Yalçın’s research expertise spans revenue management, dynamic pricing, inventory management, retail operations, and the stochastic modelling and optimisation of service and manufacturing systems. His work has been featured in prominent academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management. At Melbourne Business School, Yalçın teaches Operations Management, Quantitative Methods for Business, Data-Driven Decision Making, and Optimisation across the MBA, Executive MBA, and Senior Executive MBA programs. He also actively collaborates with industry partners, applying his expertise in advanced analytics across a wide range of practical applications.
Professor Ujwal Kayande
PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND PROFESSOR OF MARKETING
Ujwal teaches Marketing Strategy, Marketing Analytics, Digital Product Management, and Business Analytics in MBA and Executive Education programs. He has delivered short programs on data analytics to over 2000 senior executives across the world. His research focuses on measurement and understanding market phenomena, including consumer decision making, firm actions, and competitive interactions between firms. He currently serves as an Advisor to L'Oréal, Forethought, Lauretta.io, and Zetaris.
Christelle Young
INDUSTRY EXPERT
Christelle Young is the Managing Director of T2 Tea and a distinguished executive with extensive experience in strategy, transformation, technology, and data analytics. Formerly the Chief Data & Analytics Officer at L’Oréal South Asia Pacific, Middle East & North Africa, she has led significant transformation initiatives across 33 countries. Christelle is also an advisory board member at Melbourne Business School’s Centre for Business Analytics.
Greg Hill
INDUSTRY EXPERT
Greg is the Head of Data Strategy, Analytics and Insights at AustralianSuper and has been leading data analytics teams since 2009.His expertise lies in applying advanced analytics capabilities to solve commercial problems in marketing, supply chain, product management and pricing for retailers, telcos and financial services firms. Greg is passionate about connecting and developing analytics professionals with rewarding and high-impact work.
Centre for Business Analytics
Melbourne Business School is a national leader in business analytics.
In 2014 we established our Centre for Business Analytics, which is at the forefront of data-informed decision making, uniting scholars, practitioners, students, and organisations driven by the challenge of leveraging data for organisational success.
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