Data Science for Business Leaders

A study by the reports that data-driven organizations are now 23 times more likely to acquire customers, 6 times as likely to retain customers, and 19 times as likely to be profitable as a result. also reports that the creation of a strategy now ranks as the number one challenge to (and reason for) companies’ success with data and analytics.

The opportunity to generate critical business insights grows alongside the massive amounts of data being created by companies and consumers alike, but so does the challenge of managing all that data effectively. The Data Science for Business Leaders Executive program addresses that challenge in an organization’s data transformation journey by helping managers and executives make better strategic, data-driven decisions.

Upon graduating from the program, business leaders will be able to identify and assess data science opportunities, develop a human capital plan for staffing and structuring a business’s data science team, and evaluate strategic technical decisions around data architecture. These are critical skills for any leader looking to unlock the massive potential that big data offers.

This Executive Program teaches the strategic and technical foundations of data science in the 21st century. It is intended for business leaders and managers who are responsible for making strategic decisions regarding these technologies, and want to equip themselves to formulate and evaluate proposals involving data science, data architecture, and machine learning technologies to impact their business.

This program is designed to train business leaders tasked with determining the strategic decisions to equip their company with the latest advancements in data science.
If you're asking any of the below questions about your role or your business, this program is what you're looking for:

• What are our greatest opportunities to use data?
• How do I prioritize projects and manage a project pipeline/portfolio of data projects?
• How do we build up data expertise across the variety of roles/capabilities (i.e. Data Scientists vs. Data Engineers vs. Data Analysts, etc.)
• How do we deploy our different data roles to maximize business value from our data?
• Do we change something at the platform level or do something smaller?

Professionals in roles that involve high-level strategic roadmapping are well prepared to excel in this Executive Program.

Executive Programs are intensive, strategically-focused programs that empower business leaders to rapidly understand complex and technical concepts, like Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and apply these concepts to high-stakes decision-making in real-world business scenarios.
An Executive Program is focused on teaching how to weigh implications related to strategic decision making that affect an entire organization or department. Unlike a Nanodegree program, which goes much deeper on the technical execution of using a specific technology, Executive Programs focus on the fundamentals of a particular technology, like Artificial Intelligence or Data Science, and go deep into the key questions business executives should be considering around the application of those technologies, and the strategic implications that these technologies have at a corporate level.

Every Executive Program includes career services including a personal career coach, project reviews from industry professionals, technical mentor support so you can get help when you need it, and a flexible learning plan so you can learn at your own pace.