High performing companies use analytics solutions strategically. What do companies do? Making analytics and metrics easy for employees to use, help people within companies understand business and achieve success. A business intelligence (BI) and Analytics strategy empowers employees with the right information at the right time. The result? Insightful business knowledge with the ability to anticipate change and uncover new opportunities.


Marketing is the core of an operating business. It provides the managerial focus for interfacing with customers and is the source of intelligence about customers, competitors and environment. Marketing focuses on the long-term relationship of a company with its customers as well as short-run sales and profits. Managers must identify and measure consumers needs and wants, assess the competitive environment, select appropriate customer targets and develop products, strategies and programs to satisfy consumers needs better than competition. The world of today even proves to be more complicated as social media and digital have opened a bridge which helps customers and brands interact face-face. Social Media can be a very powerful that if used correctly can propel a brand into a growth path and generate enormous equity

This course will help students identify what it takes to create business value with analytics, in particular:

  • Identify strong correlation between business value and capabilities in Analytics.
  • Position a company’s analytic capability against an industry specific benchmark.
  • Provide the ability to prioritize as companies improve analytic capabilities.
  • Identify the level of mastery in business analytics by looking at: technology (tools), sources and types of data, organization (talent and culture), business/decision processes and metrics.