Make a Data-Driven Decision

Data-driven decisions generate better, more reliable results. This course gives you the skills to interpret and apply data effectively to help optimize business decisions, You'll practice "interrogating" data to build a solid evidence base and develop your own data-driven analysis to influence or promote a decision.

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Make a Data Driven Decision
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In this course, you will

  • Identify an opportunity
    Identify an area in your business to make decisions with data and develop a plan with the support of your project advisor.
  • Use the right methods 
    Gain a clear understanding of data-driven decisions and apply a range of templates and toolkits to your guided project.
  • Develop relevant skills 
    Develop and improve a selection of key skills relevant to making decisions with data.

5 steps to success

16-20 hours over 6+ weeks

  • Step 1 • 2-3 hrs
    Find an opportunity
    Identify an area in your business in which to make a data-driven decision and develop a plan with the support of your project advisor.  
  • Step 2 • 5-6 hrs
    Project preparation
    Research, assess, and reflect on possible approaches you can take, then draft an actionable project plan you can talk through with your project advisor. Fine-tune it based on their feedback.
  • Step 3 • 6-8 hrs
    Complete your project
    Work through your plan to achieve the outcome(s) defined in your project goal set at the beginning of your course.
  • Step 4 • 2 hrs
    Review how it went
    Discuss the results with your project advisor and highlight areas of success that your business can scale-up and use with a greater impact in the future. 
  • Step 5 • 1 hr
    Showcase
    Use the STAR (Situation, Task, Action and Results) model to illustrate your achievements and key conclusions, then share them with your team. 

 

Help is always available

Project advisor support

Invaluable insider insights from your project advisor.

Up to 3 hours of 1-2-1 support.

Guides & resources

Switch on to our online library to access authentic case studies, proven business models, and practice scenarios that will help you test and deliver your plan.

Up to 4 hours of content.

Examples of tools and templates you will be introduced to

The 5 'Whys'?

Learn an iterative and interrogative method to discover the root cause of a particular problem.

The Stakeholder Map

Identify and manage your decision-makers and stakeholders, and determine the levels of interest and influence they have in your project.

The CoNVO Method

Use a structured approach to understand your problem, including how and what data or information you'll need to collect to define your scope.

Triangulation

Explore how cross-examination works to help you make better business decisions.

Power skills you will develop

Communication

Clearly define the goals and objectives of your guided project, sharing information in order to convey meaning and achieve desired outcomes. Convey the evidence and the argument to support a decision, and to manage the wider stakeholders.

Critical thinking

Think critically about what opportunity there is to make decisions with data in your business and make a clear evidence base for how you will complete this project. Make decisions by analyzing the decision to be made, identifying the right data to use, and designing the optimal methods for a decision-making process.

Data insights

Identify, clean, understand, summarize, interpret, and communicate data effectively and use relevant tools or techniques to analyze the data.

Evidence-based decision making

Use evidence from a wide range of sources to support evidence-based decisions. Challenge available evidence to ensure robust and objective decision making. 

Leadership

Synthesize and understand many different perspectives to promote buy-in from stakeholders.

Social responsibility

Consider your knowledge, values and behaviors to avoid the decision being influenced by personal biases and preferences.

On completion you will have

Discovered ways to make a data-driven decision

Demonstrated live project experience around a key opportunity to make decisions with data in your business.

Transferable skills to use across your business

Gained proficiency in critical skills fundamental to making decisions with data that supports your career development.

Resources you can turn to again and again

A structured business plan with templates that you can download and use in future projects.

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