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Explore how your organisation can design better data storage and harness the full power of analytics. Develop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practices, learn from leading experts, and earn a shareable digital certificate.
Explore how your organisation can design better data storage and harness the full power of analytics.
Level up with micro-credentialsIndustry-ready skillsDevelop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practice you can apply immediately.
Taught by leading expertsLearn from internationally recognised academics and professionals with years of on the ground experience.
Shareable digital certificateShowcase your capabilities with an industry recognised digital certificate you can share with your professional network.
This micro-credential is ideal for mid to late-career ICT professionals seeking to advance their careers or future-proof their skill sets.
It is recommended that learners commencing this micro-credential have:
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Our world is rich with data, but is your organisation using it to its best advantage?
This micro-credential is ideal for mid to late-career ICT professionals seeking a strong grounding in data storage and the function of analytics, and how these practices can help organisations gain a competitive edge.
Examine how organisations use data and discuss and define the concepts of analytics, decision making and data warehousing.
Consider the role of data analytics in organisational decision-making and analyse the issues organisations face in adopting it. Learn how to make recommendations about how an organisation can best use analytics to drive competitive advantage.
Consider trends in information architecture for business analytics, and explore conceptual and logical data warehouse architecture options. Discover how to evaluate an organisation's data store and consider key challenges and potential trade-offs when making storage design decisions.
This micro-credential is ideal for mid to late-career ICT professionals seeking to advance their careers or future-proof their skill sets.
It is recommended that learners commencing this micro-credential have:
This micro-credential is designed in close consultation with industry and leverages best practices, especially about information systems strategy and disruptive technologies. Learning tasks have been designed to go beyond theory and enable you to apply your newfound practical skills and assessment task outcomes to your own professional context.
By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of how data and analytics function within organisations. You'll be able to:
This course runs over four weeks, including two weeks of teaching, and two weeks for assessment.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
Assessment:
Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Strategic Data in Organisations micro-credential. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your micro-credential digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.
Strategic Data in Organisations can be taken as a stand-alone course, or complemented with any other Melbourne MicroCert in the Leveraging Organisational Data series to deepen your knowledge and skills.
It offers a pathway, otherwise known as advanced standing, into the Master of Information Sytems. To use it this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials in the Leveraging Organisational Data series, then apply for credit towards the master's.
Leveraging Organisational Data includes:
In our innovative online learning environment, you'll engage with other professionals and undertake learning activities such as narrative, discussion and personal reflection, examination of cutting-edge case studies, peer-to-peer learning and guided conversations. This course's fully online delivery offers a convenient way to develop your skillset, from a location that suits you.
This micro-credential will expire five years from the date of issue as particular knowledge and/or skills may need to be refreshed.
It offers a pathway, otherwise known as advanced standing, into the Master of Information Sytems. To use it this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials in the Leveraging Organisational Data series, then apply for credit towards the master's.