Course - Business analytics - AE302319
AE302319 - Business analytics
About
Examination arrangement
Examination arrangement: Assignment
Grade: Letter grades
| Evaluation | Weighting | Duration | Grade deviation | Examination aids |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | 100/100 | ALLE |
Course content
Technological advancement provide increasingly better access to detailed and complex data sources and new opportunities for gathering and using data sources in integrated decision support systems. Big data, business intelligence and business analytics are buzzwords that represent different aspects of this development. This advancement in technology also goes towards intuitive user interfaces that are increasingly making tools available for advanced use for people without detailed knowledge of the technology itself, but who understand the technology at an overall conceptual level. This provides new opportunities for specialists to use technology to tailor decision support for financial and strategic purposes. The purpose of this course is to provide students with good insight into the possibilities for decision support using newer technologies with updated examples from business.
Learning outcome
Knowledge:
- Provide basic knowledge about central concepts within business analytics.
- Able to explain the reason for and importance of business analytics.
- Describe central concepts within the field.
- Familiarity with business analytics tools
Skills:
- Use business analytics to support financial and business decisions.
- Describe problem areas related to business analytics.
- Actively participate in discussions and decisions concerning business analytics in a given organization.
General competence:
- Relate business analytics to other fields covered within the bachelor study program
- Relate business analytics to central business functions.
- Use insight from the course to use business analytics.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, videos, analytic tools, cases and exercises.
Recommended previous knowledge
- Introductory course in Marketing
- Organisation and management.
- Financial accounting and analysis.
- Methods in social sciences.
- Corporate strategy.
No
Version: 1
Credits:
7.5 SP
Study level: Third-year courses, level III
Term no.: 1
Teaching semester: SPRING 2023
Language of instruction: English
Location: Ålesund
- Strategy and Management
- Economics and Administration
- Management Accounting and Control
Department with academic responsibility
Department of International Business
Examination
Examination arrangement: Assignment
- Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
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Spring
ORD
Assignment
100/100
ALLE
Release
2023-05-08Submission
2023-05-09
12:00
INSPERA
12:00 -
Room Building Number of candidates
- * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
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