IT 8204 PROBLEM SOLVING AND ACTIONABLE ANALYTICS (3) (Second Concentration Only)

This course provides foundational skills for exploring both structured and unstructured business problems. The course will cover techniques to systematically approach decision-making, enabling students to become more comfortable handling tasks or projects that are not initially well-defined. Methods will include exercises in brainstorming and iterating as well as the use of more traditional analytical tools. The course will offer applications across different functional areas and disciplines. After the course, a student should understand a broader set of the types of problems that analytics professionals confront and solve, the data need to analyze such problems, and modeling/analytic techniques used to solve them. Throughout the course, a hands-on approach and communication of results are emphasized.