Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to Big Data: Aligning Strategy, Analytics, and Operations
Using and adapting Big Data solutions for competitive advantage is an ongoing challenge for many firms. This course provided a “playbook” for those tasked with setting up or improving their organisation’s Big Data solutions. It covered the steps for developing a Big Data strategy, looked at how to establish an analytics capability that scales as business needs change, and addressed the organisational impacts of introducing Big Data solutions.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Stuart Allan MBA PgCertHE FHEA CMgr FCMI
Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Business School
Nottingham Business School
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the basics of Big Data
- Evaluate where Big Data could benefit your organisation
- Investigate how to develop a Big Data strategy
- Explore the necessary attributes to develop a long-term analytics capability
- Develop confidence in how to operationalise Big Data solutions
- Reflect on the consequences of using Big Data
Syllabus
- An overview of big data concepts
- Where big data can deliver value to an organisation
- The tools and techniques necessary for developing a big data strategy
- Setting up a big data analytics capability
- Identifying the organisational impacts of introducing big data solutions
- Governance - Ethics, privacy and security issues associated with big data
Issued on 12th May 2026
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