The primary aim of this course is to learn new skills and tools that will provide students with important quantitative acumen for understanding consumer analytics.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Develop a collaborative design thinking mindset that enables them to explore and communicate complex problems they face at the workplace;
- Critically evaluate a solution by reframing the problem, changing perspectives, or redefining the constraints by continuously iterating “How Might We?” questions;
- Integrate storytelling into a human-centered approach to problem-solving by engaging the audience and considering time in the solution narrative;
- Construct key user-centered design briefs, statements, and framework documents that reflect empathy with the user needs or a challenge; and
- Design and test simple prototypes that reflect the user’s needs and invite further iterations.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Describe how sustainable investing is defined and implemented by companies and investors across regions and asset classes
- Identify and describe traditional and “new” alternative investments, including size, growth, performance and profitability of asset classes, as well as common investment strategies
- Understand issues of due diligence, including key characteristics such as liquidity, scale, transparency, performance, fees and risk
- Assess the suitability of sustainable investing and alternatives to different classes of investors, and how products fit within an institutional investment framework
- Understand how to create sustainability-aware portfolios reflecting the tradeoffs between financial returns and sustainability
- Make informed decisions about allocation to sustainable investment strategies and alternative investments, including alternative investments with a sustainability tilt
- Incorporate concepts from FNCE6023 and previous courses into effective project solutions for corporate partners, delivered through written materials and presentations
Students will learn from an experiential learning approach which prepares them to make effective marketing decisions.
The course aims to achieve the following objectives:
• Real-world problem solving through student consultancy project
• Apply classroom learning and research to real-world challenges in order to envision solutions for an intelligent accounting function
• Understand the changing role of finance function
• Understand how to simplify, streamline and harmonize essential finance processes to create a leaner, more efficient finance function
• Learn how to use a data visualization tool
• Experiential and peer-learning
• Active mentoring by faculty and project sponsors
• Learn how to handle uncertainty in a project
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Gain better understanding of IT management principles and best practices, which include IT Strategy that deliver business value, IT Governance, IT enabled innovations, IT Capabilities management etc
2. Apply the knowledge gained to propose Digital Business Transformation Strategy that enables organisations to better exploit Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Social Computing, Advanced Analytics, Internet of Things, AI etc. in delivering business value
3. Understand the challenges relating to management of change in a business setting
The goals of this course are the following:
• Develop a customer centric business solution by understanding the available customer data and how to apply advanced analytics techniques including segmentation, prediction and scoring for increasing profitability of the firms.
• The course focuses on applications of analytics in various industries and one of the main objectives is to build understanding about the use cases in multiple industries where analytics can make an impact
• Gain deep and through understanding of the SAS data mining tool for implementing the devised solution
• Being able to communicate and present complex analytical solutions in an intuitively and articulately
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Apply design methodologies to designs “things”.
• Develop an understanding of how businesses can be “designed” using the same design methodologies in order to implement the designed “things”.
• Develop an appreciation of how to create designs for broader and varying contexts, that is, to be sensitive to human, societal needs and the physical environment.
1. Assess a business problem and/or opportunity from the current business environment, including new and untapped markets;
2. Design interdisciplinary solutions to address the business challenge or future opportunities by considering strategy, marketing, operations, finance, and communication; and
3. Reason critically through the solution process with appropriate modes of analysis.
