BUS 8652 INFORMED DECISION MAKING (3)

The course focuses on decision-making from the perspective of senior leadership. The course highlights strategic business decision-making processes when leaders or organizations face volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). Complex and data-driven decisions are considered with emphasis on the power and utility of business analytics. Students will learn to construct and interpret decision trees, k-nearest neighbor predictions, Bayesian networks, and cluster analyses, as well as to explore the foundations of data mining.