Course Title: Analytics, Strategy and Change

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Analytics, Strategy and Change

Credit Points: 12.00

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM4810	RMIT Online	Postgraduate	660H Graduate School of Business and Law	Internet	JanJun2020 (KP3)
BUSM4810	RMIT Online	Postgraduate	660H Graduate School of Business and Law	Internet	JanJun2021 (KP1), JanJun2021 (All)
BUSM4810	RMIT Online	Postgraduate	660H Graduate School of Business and Law	Internet	JulDec2021 (All)
BUSM4810	RMIT Online	Postgraduate	660H Graduate School of Business and Law	Internet	JanJun2022 (KP3)
BUSM4810	RMIT Online	Postgraduate	660H Graduate School of Business and Law	Internet	JanJun2023 (All)
BUSM4810	RMIT Online	Postgraduate	660H Graduate School of Business and Law	Internet	JulDec2023 (All)
BUSM4810	RMIT Online	Postgraduate	660H Graduate School of Business and Law	Internet	JanJun2024 (All)

Course Coordinator: Dr Kleanthes (Anthos) Yannakou

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1388

Course Coordinator Email: anthos.yannakou@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Melbourne City Campus - 13.2.51

Course Coordinator Availability: By Appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Foundational knowledge of Data Science including Statistics.

Course Description

This course focuses on the characteristics of data-driven organisations along with the motivations, obstacles and interventions that bring change. During this course you will explore approaches to influencing stakeholders to support the implementation of a change management plan. You will learn practical change management skills through the design of transformation plans and stakeholder engagement strategies. As part of the course you will explore strategic approaches to managing analytics and data as well as team development.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

CLO1 Establish the characteristics of a data-driven organisation and critically reflect on the obstacles and enablers to achieve strategically appropriate data science and analytics organisational capability. 

CLO2 Undertake planning for transformation, project management, and stakeholder engagement activities fit for a specified organisation or industry.

CLO3 Identify opportunities for intervention and develop change management strategies based on learning from leading organisations in the context of the digital economy.

CLO4 Design people-based organisational capacity including cultural and management approaches, operating structures, career paths and skills development for a data science team.

CLO5 Develop communication strategies and approaches suitable for changing environments and diverse stakeholders.  

 

Overview of Learning Activities

This course uses highly structured learning activities to guide your learning process and prepare you for your assessments. The activities are a combination of individual, peer-supported and facilitator-guided activities, and where possible project-led, with opportunities for feedback throughout. 

Authentic and industry-relevant learning is critical to this course and you will be encouraged to critically compare and contrast what is happening in your context and in industry, and to use your insights. 

Social learning is another important component and you are expected to participate in class and group activities, share drafts of work and resources and give and receive peer feedback. You will be expected to work efficiently and effectively with others to achieve outcomes greater than those that you might have achieved alone. 

Above all, the learning activities are designed to maximize the likelihood that you will not only understand the course learning resources but also apply that learning to improving your own practice, for example by producing real-world artefacts and engaging in scenarios and case studies. 

 

Overview of Learning Resources

Each learning activity contains the core resources, such as videos, podcasts, readings, templates, articles, industry tools and/or communities that you need to complete that activity, or links to those resources. 

Additional learning resources designed into the course, will be clearly marked as supplemental. If your course teaching team finds additional resources during course delivery which they think can support or be of interest to the class cohort, these will be made available as required during the teaching period. 

In your class environment, besides your learning activities you will also find:

• All assessment briefs.
• A course information page with a study schedule.
• Various communication tools to facilitate collaboration with your peers and facilitators, and to share information.

Learning Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases, subject guides, and other facilities. Assistance with referencing, study support, finding computers and study spaces is available at the RMIT library Study website. If you require assistance with the RMIT library facilities contact Ask the Library. 

 

Overview of Assessment

The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows:

Assessment Task 1: 30%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3

Assessment Task 2: 40%
Linked CLOs: 1, 3, 4

Assessment Task 3: 30%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 5

A total mark of 50% is required for a pass in the course. This does not mean that each individual component of assessment must be passed.