Strategic Data in Organisations

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:

• a bachelor's degree and a minimum of two years of IT-related work experience

OR

• five years of IT-related work experience.

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:

• Critically evaluate the role of analytics in an organisation
• Evaluate a range of architecture options and analyse data storage challenges for analytics operations
• Analyse issues that organisations face in adopting data analytics for decision-making
• Make recommendations on how an organisation can gain a competitive advantage by adopting data analytics.

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:

• 8 hours guided online learning
• 13 hours independent study
• 21 hours assessment tasks.

Assessment:

• Online discussion contributions (30%)
• Annotated presentation exploring your understanding of data storage and analytics in organisations (70%).

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:

• Strategy in a Disruptive Environment
• Strategic Data in Organisations
• Strategic Data Management
• Analytics and Organisational Impact.

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.