MIT Sloan School of Management
Management Analytics: Decision-Making Lessons From the Sports Industry
Learn to leverage data and analytics to enhance decision-making processes within your organization.
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Start date
04 September 2024
Enroll by 27 August 2024
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
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Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Is this course for you?
This Management Analytics: Decision-Making Lessons From the Sports Industry course, offered by MIT Sloan, aims to equip you with the skills to drive a data-centric revolution in your organization. By focusing on process, administration, and ingenuity, this curriculum is tailored to aid entrepreneurs, managers, and budding data analysts in comprehending the fundamental principles of data analysis from a business standpoint and exploiting them to gain a strategic advantage over competitors. This program is accessible to all, regardless of technical background or experience.
Course overview
Introduction
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Is this course for you?
This Management Analytics: Decision-Making Lessons From the Sports Industry course, offered by MIT Sloan, aims to equip you with the skills to drive a data-centric revolution in your organization. By focusing on process, administration, and ingenuity, this curriculum is tailored to aid entrepreneurs, managers, and budding data analysts in comprehending the fundamental principles of data analysis from a business standpoint and exploiting them to gain a strategic advantage over competitors. This program is accessible to all, regardless of technical background or experience.
What will set you apart
A framework that offers a step-by-step plan for integrating data analytics into your organization.
Key management and leadership skills to effectively execute data-driven strategies that align with your business objectives.
Insights from the sports industry on how data can be used at an organizational level to improve strategic decision making.Course curriculum
Orientation Module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
From data to decision making
Module 2
Aligning analytics with your strategic goals
Module 3
Designing your analytics system
Module 4
Translating your analytics insights into action
Module 5
Humans and machines in partnership: Making your decisions with analytics
Module 6
Towards a data-driven culture
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Faculty Director
Ben Shields
Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication, MIT Sloan
Earn a certificate of completion from MIT Sloan
Acquire the expertise to make informed, data-driven decisions using analytics and earn an official digital certificate of completion from MIT Sloan.
This program also counts toward an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, which you can earn upon completion of four programs where at least three of the four come from your chosen certificate track and at least one is completed in person. Find full details here.
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