Explorations: Assessing Your Analytics Workforce
Started Oct 20, 2023
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Full course description
Course description: Join the Roux Institute and fellow professionals in Maine for a targeted learning experience where we examine how data is currently used by your firm and discuss organizational approaches to gathering, analyzing, communicating, and sharing that data. This course is designed for analytics team leads and HR business leaders focused on developing a competitive analytics workforce.
Participants will create recommendations and next steps for increasing their organization's analytics and AI maturity, leveraging thought leadership from Northeastern University faculty and other industry leaders.
Course learning objectives:
- Describe best practices for increasing analytical capacity at the team and organization level
- Explain the data lifecycle, intended audience, and data communication strategy for one or more organizational artifacts
- Identify key analytical transformation opportunities in terms of skillsets, infrastructure, culture and change initiatives
- Prepare recommendations and next steps for increasing your organization's analytics and AI maturity
Course project: Prepare recommendations and next steps for increasing your organization's analytics and AI maturity.
Program format:
- In-person at the Roux Institute in Portland, ME
- One, four hour session
- Program cost: $750 per learner
Schedule:
Assessing Your Analytics Workforce
Friday, October 20, one session
In-person at the Roux Institute, 100 Fore Street
1:00 p.m- 5:00 p.m
Meet the instructor: Dan Koloski is the head of learning programs and professor of the practice in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute. At the Roux Institute, Koloski carries administrative responsibility for all learning programs across degree and non-degree contexts. Professor Koloski’s own teaching is in analytics and its applicability in business, and in addition to his work within various Northeastern degree programs, he works with the Roux partnerships team to develop and teach custom non-degree courses to partner employees.
Koloski joined Northeastern after spending over twenty years in the IT and software industry, working in both technical and business management roles across large and small companies. Most recently, Koloski was vice president of product management and business development at Oracle. Before Oracle, he was CTO and director of strategy of the web business unit at Empirix, which he helped spin out and sell to Oracle.
Koloski holds a bachelor’s from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Koloski has lived in Portland for several decades with his wife and two daughters. He is an avid sailor and skier, in addition to maintaining an active performing schedule in the Portland-area music and theater scene.
If you should need to drop the course, please talk to your employer and Caitlin Enz, Manager of Partner Programs, c.enz@northeastern.edu before the start of the program.