Overview

The challenge has shifted from collecting and analysing data, to sifting through the massive amounts of data analysis produced and extracting the right insights at the right time for the right decisions. 

We are in the throes of a big data revolution.  Obtaining data is easy; understanding its potential and putting it to work for an organization is a bigger challenge.  Executives and senior leaders use data every day to describe current scenarios within their organizations and to predict future ones.  But big data also gives organizations opportunities to identify problems earlier and react more quickly and more effectively.   The real value of the data revolution comes into play when data and analytics are deeply integrated in an organization’s decision-making processes.  

Knights Business School, Leading a Data-driven Organization Workshop is designed for senior managers and executives who want to take their data strategy to the next level.   Participants will learn how to advance from simply using data to describe current and predict future scenarios, to really leveraging data to prescribe solutions and improve business performance.  
The workshop emphasizes the importance of linking functional teams to analytics teams and the critical role played by those who are responsible for building and nurturing those links.  Participants will begin the day by tackling the business case for different types of data analytics hands-on. They will discuss the internal organizational changes that are required to effectively integrate data into decision-making and build a truly data-driven organization.  

Key Benefits

At the end of the workshop, participants will:

• Understand the critical role played by senior managers in creating a data-driven organization
• Know how to ask the right questions to drive effective and efficient decision-making using data
• Recognize the potential that data offers and understand why the promise of big (or small) data may not always be fulfilled
• Be exposed to a variety of different types of data analytics (from dash boarding to predictive modelling to experimentation) and understand where and how different types can be used to improve performance within their organization
• Recognize and evaluate opportunities for collecting new data
• Learn how to structure organizations to maximally exploit data investments
• Make data analytics an intuitive and necessary part of corporate conversations 

Who Should Attend
This program is ideal for leaders who are responsible for strategic decisions and must translate analysis into action.  These executives and senior managers need to understand the strategic power of data and the challenges that come with using data to improve performance.  
Participants will come from a broad range of industries, including the corporate, government and non-profit sectors.  Potential participants include:

• Chief data and information officers
• Corporate directors and officers
• Divisional Managers
• Experienced public administrators in federal, state and local government
• National, regional and international business unit managers
• General managers and branch managers
• Executive directors of associations and NGOs
• Senior managers of multinational corporations
• Professional services executives

Schedule

The workshop is designed to help senior managers and executives recognize the opportunities and challenges in building a data-driven organization.  It is divided into three modules incorporating case studies, group work and discussion:

Module 1 – The Data Imperative: 
Reduced costs of storing and processing data, and an increase in the amount of economic and social activity that is carried out digitally, mean that organizations have access to more data than ever before. This module will help participants understand the opportunities presented by an ever growing volume of data and the challenges associated with exploiting these opportunities in practice.  Exploring how companies currently use data will elicit strategies for companies to use data going forward.  The instructors will emphasize the importance of moving beyond using data to understand “what happened” or “what will happen” to using data to understand “why things are happening” and “what should be done about them”.   

Module 2 – Using Data: 
This module will expose participants to a variety of different data analysis tools, emphasizing the business case for each.  Rather than focusing on technical details, the discussion will look at the types of insight that can be extracted from the different tools and how they can be utilized. 

Module 3 – The Data-Driven Organization: 
This module will illustrate why it is critical to integrate analytics functions/roles into the broader organizational structure and will highlight the small steps and larger changes that are needed to build a truly data-driven organization.  Participants will discuss the importance of regular and open communication between managers and analysts, and the need for data literacy at all levels of the organization.

How to Apply

Fee: N120, 000 only

Included in program fee*:

• Tuition
• All program materials and supplies
• Completion certificate
• Class-day meals (breakfast, lunch and breaks)

Date:  December 06 – 08, 2017
Time: 9am – 5pm
Enquiries on Venue and Resource persons:
Contact: braingro@yahoo.com 
Call 0803-403-4195, 0808-436-9290