Overview

Key Facts

These insights will inform strategic business decisions designed to increase productivity, profitability and an organisation’s value and market share.

Business Analytics programme from Dublin Business School has been designed with an integrated delivery from end-to-end covering a wide range of business strategy, analytics and technology topics whilst providing a focus on application and the regulation required in this area. 

Overall, the programme aims to create in learners a critical understanding of core business analytics and strategic business management, while also enhancing the research capability and practical technical skills of the learners. 

The specific programme objectives are to:

• Enable learners to develop in-depth knowledge and critical awareness of the current and developing business analytics field.

• Provide learners with a deep and systematic understanding of research and analysis relating to business analytics.

• Provide learners with specialised technical knowledge of the management of data and the mining of data to provide insights into business propositions/solutions/ strategy.

• Equip learners with advanced skills directly complementary and relevant to the business analytics workplace.

Career Opportunities

There is a global shortage of the skilled professionals required to fill direct high-end jobs in this area and the report, Assessing the Demand for Big Data and Analytics Skills, identifies measures to build up the Big Data and analytics talent pool in Ireland over the period up to 2020 in line with enterprise demand. 

The 21,000 potential job opportunities for skilled professionals could arise under the report’s high growth scenario, from both expansion and replacement demand in the period up to 2020 - comprising 3,630 for deep analytical roles and 17,470 for big data savvy roles.