Enterprise Analytics for Business Professionals

Course Level Postgraduate

Year

Area/Catalogue
INFS 5129

Course Level
Postgraduate

Offered Externally
Yes

Note: This offering may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Course ID
170528

Unit Value
4.5

University-wide elective course
No

Course owner
UniSA Business

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Course aim

To equip business professionals with knowledge and skills to investigate and analyse opportunities for improving organisational decision-making practices with the help of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

Course content

Topics include problem structuring; sources and types of data; data validity and reliability; methods for obtaining data; core mathematical and statistical tools for analysing and transforming data; simple predictive and prescriptive analytics for diverse data and enterprise decision making problems in finance, marketing, supply chain, and human resources; errors and uncertainty; and monitoring, evaluation, and improvement of systems.

Textbook(s)

Jeffrey D. Camm/James J. Cochran/Michael J. Fry/Jeffrey W. Ohlmann 2023, Business Analytics, 5th edition, Cengage Learning Australia Ltd, Australia

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
INFS 5130	Fundamentals of Data Analytics for Business

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Workshop	3 hours x 10 weeks
Preparatory	1 week x 1 hour
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External	30 hours x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Critical analysis, Learning log/Journal

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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