Data-driven business decision making
Data-driven business decision making
Data-driven business decision making

Extract business value from data analyses

 

This comprehensive course on data-driven business decision making is designed to equip you with the skills required to extract and argue business value from data analyses. In today’s digital energy industry, it is essential to be able to present your recommendations convincingly to business decision makers. This course helps you become a change enabler in this industry by developing the necessary soft skills to work in teams, delegate, prioritise, and drive projects to completion.

 

The course is designed to give you practical skills that you can apply immediately in the workplace. It also equips you with tools to recognise new business opportunities driven by digitalisation in energy. You will learn how to create compelling arguments and communicate effectively with business managers. The course includes working on a chosen company case, where you will develop a deeper understanding of the business, and you will learn to create and deliver compelling presentations to business managers.

 

This course is offered in cooperation with EIT InnoEnergy partner Aalto Advisors.

Overview

Course dates: Monday 30 September to Friday 15 November. Live online sessions occur on Mondays and Fridays from 17:00 to 19:00 CET, with a break during Monday 21 October and Friday 25 October 25.

 

Effort Level: 81 hours.

  • Preparatory reading: 28 hours.
  • Interative learning sessions + coaching and teamwork: 24 hours (6 weeks, 2 x 2 hours per week)
  • Independent project work: 29 hours.

 

Delivery: Online course offered two times per week.

 

Pre-requisites:Preparatory activities helping to acquire pre-requisite knowledge for the live online sessions are provided as an online package prior to the live online period.

 

Registration: 09 – 16 September.

Final application results will be communicated to applicants the week of 23 September. 

 

 

This course is currently only available to InnoEnergy Masters+ students.

Who is the course for?

This course on data-driven business decision making is designed for InnoEnergy Masters+ students who are interested in developing the skills necessary to extract business value from data analyses and persuasively argue their recommendations to business decision-makers.

How will you learn?

The course uses modern interactive pedagogical methods, including case teaching, learning by doing, videos, flipped classrooms, coaching, and workshops. Throughout the participants will be working on real-life cases.

 

This course builds upon the following values in its teaching and pedagogical methods:

 

  • Multi-disciplinary (enables integrated learning paths from technology to business)
  • Industry-relevant (course staff has practical business experience from various industries)
  • Interactive (students are coached by senior experts with both industry and academic experience)
  • Applied (focus on applying tools and methods of business, rather than teaching the tools and methods themselves.

 

Students will be assessed based on preparatory reading assignment, live online participation, and final presentation.

What will you achieve?

  • Understanding of how to extract and argue business value from data analyses and how to present and convince business decision makers to follow your recommendations.
  • Necessary business and soft skills to become a change enabler and leader in the energy industry.
  • Course completion certificate by EIT InnoEnergy.

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