Transforming Your Company's Data Analytics - Championing the Digital Enterprise edX - online learning platform

Overview

The Transforming Your Company's Data Analytics - Championing the Digital Enterprise programme in collaboration with University System of Maryland - USMx is a Professional Certificate. 

Key Facts

Organizations are pressured to become digital enterprises for good reason. Today every company is a technology company at its core. Only through integrated information technology systems designed for business analytics can companies sense and respond to changing market demands.

Business agility demands a digital enterprise.

Digital technologies have the potential to transform organizations into lean, agile businesses that are strongly focused on their customers. But, just introducing digital technologies into an enterprise is not enough. Without the right organizational culture, business processes, and active people training, you will not realize the full value of digital technologies.

Job Outlook

• According to Price Waterhouse, “requirements for data science and analytics jobs are often multidisciplinary and they all require an ability to link analytics to creating value for the organization.”
• Price Waterhouse also estimates that there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
• A 2011 McKinsey research report found that data-savvy managers are needed to organize the organization’s data science teams to create centers of excellence that connect with the rest of the organization.
• The median salary for a project manager who leads a data analytics team is $107,000 according to Glassdoor.com.