Irish Management Institute

IMI Diploma in Data Business Part 2:

Programme promotes action design research to create business value through data-centric change.

Applied Research Methods

Provides the knowledge, skills and tools needed to effectively undertake an action design research (ADR) project.

Big Data & Analytics

Provides the ability to identify and prioritise opportunities to adopt Big Data technologies to deliver business value.

Agile Project Delivery

Provides an insight into agile techniques and the macro and micro perspectives on agile project planning and delivery.

Data Driven Design

Provides the ability to manage organisational data as a business asset through leading and advancing the data quality agenda in an organisation.

Research Seminars in Data Business

Provides an understanding of the challenges and opportunities in data business from both the academic and practitioner perspective.

Design Thinking & Process Improvement

Provides people-oriented skills and knowledge to design and manage agile businesses that exploit current opportunities and simultaneously explore for future opportunities.

Programme Content

Advanced Data Business Analysis
To introduce the research technique of econometrics. The overriding emphasis is on developing the skills needed to apply econometric techniques, understanding the issues that arise and taking appropriate action.

Business Agility
To provide participants with an understanding of how to leverage data/information to enable organisations respond to rapidly changing business needs/environments in a reliable manner.

Advanced Enterprise Data Management
To provide participants with a grounding in big data analytics technology and tools, management and governance practices, and business intelligence tools in organisational decision making.

IMI Diploma in Data Business Part 2:
IMI / UCC MSc in Data Business (60 Credits)

Throughout the 12 month duration of Part 2 of the course participants engage in an action design research project and
attend 9 x 2 day monthly seminars.

On successful completion of Part 2 participants should be able to:

•Analyse the potential value of quality data to a business.

•Identify and overcome inhibitors that are restricting data related value realisation.

•Develop, test and iterate various prototypes of a data business solution.

•Deliver a high impact data project.

•Develop an enterprise data strategy and translate that strategy into actionable tasks/projects.

•Demonstrate an ability to do rigorous research on a relevant data problem and present the resulting findings to different stakeholders/groups, orally and in writing.

•Prepare and deliver a research report in data business as well as demonstrate an ability to integrate knowledge and to analyse, assess and manage the research process.