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BUSA8031 – Business Analytics Project
2024 – Session 1, In person-scheduled-weekday, North Ryde
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Stefan Trueck
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| Credit points |
Credit points
10
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
MGMT8040 and BUSA8000
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| Corequisites |
Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
This unit provides a platform for students to exercise the knowledge and skills that they have gained in previous units in the Master of Business Analytics. The major component of the unit is a project, where students will actively engage with a significant problem or set of problems in the area of analytics. Group work engages students in the challenges of interpersonal communication, task allocation, coordination and control. Students will gain an insight into the analytical problems faced by organisations and be able to contextualise their graduate capabilities into the final business project. The unit will consider key issues, concepts and frameworks of analytics ethics, and social responsibility, and how these can be applied to policy and practice. The class is conducted through lectures, workshops and discussions where students will develop an analytical solution around the client partner's specified information-based problem. Throughout the unit, the emphasis is on the analysis process: identifying information needs, acquiring the necessary information, interpreting it and using it as the basis for strategic recommendations. |
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- ULO1: Successfully work in teams and reflect on teamwork strategies in achieving group objectives.
- ULO2: Recognise and apply different perspectives on organisation problems in order to best frame possible solutions.
- ULO3: Design and conduct an organisational and industry analysis to assess and resolve contextual constraints of a client organisation.
- ULO4: Deliver an effective and well-justified data analytic solution.
- ULO5: Examine Business Analytics contribution to individuals, organisations and society and predict the ethical implications relating to the use of data analytics for these stakeholders.
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Personal Report | 30% | No | Week 4 and 7 |
| Client Report and Presentation | 40% | No | Week 13 |
| Client briefing report | 20% | No | Week 9 |
| Participatory Task | 10% | No | Ongoing |
Personal Report
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: Week 4 and 7
Weighting: 30%
Students will write several reports and reflect on their learning experience across their Master of Business Analytics and demonstrate their skills in topic related to business analytics such as data analysis, teamwork, and ethics.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Successfully work in teams and reflect on teamwork strategies in achieving group objectives.
- Deliver an effective and well-justified data analytic solution.
- Examine Business Analytics contribution to individuals, organisations and society and predict the ethical implications relating to the use of data analytics for these stakeholders.
Client Report and Presentation
Assessment Type 1: Project
Indicative Time on Task 2: 45 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 40%
Students will be required to work in teams on a client organisation issue. Students will be required to: 1) Submit a short group progress report on their progress to date, any issues that have been dealt with and the likely outcomes of their analysis, in the weeks preceding the Client Report and Presentation. 2) Write a professional group report for the client organisation. 3) Deliver a formal presentation to the client organisation. Each student will be individually assessed for their presentation skills (worth 10%).
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Successfully work in teams and reflect on teamwork strategies in achieving group objectives.
- Recognise and apply different perspectives on organisation problems in order to best frame possible solutions.
- Design and conduct an organisational and industry analysis to assess and resolve contextual constraints of a client organisation.
- Deliver an effective and well-justified data analytic solution.
Client briefing report
Assessment Type 1: Professional writing
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 9
Weighting: 20%
Students will provide a report on their individual interpretation of the briefing, recognition of potential problems and perspectives on potential solutions, for the client organisation.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Recognise and apply different perspectives on organisation problems in order to best frame possible solutions.
- Deliver an effective and well-justified data analytic solution.
- Examine Business Analytics contribution to individuals, organisations and society and predict the ethical implications relating to the use of data analytics for these stakeholders.
Participatory Task
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 10%
Students will be required to participate activities in class.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Recognise and apply different perspectives on organisation problems in order to best frame possible solutions.
- Deliver an effective and well-justified data analytic solution.
- Examine Business Analytics contribution to individuals, organisations and society and predict the ethical implications relating to the use of data analytics for these stakeholders.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
- the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
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2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
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Unit information based on version 2024.02 of the Handbook