Professionals tackle leadership challenges with big data

Professionals in technical and methodology-oriented data science and business analytics will learn how to conquer leadership challenges with big data during a new executive education programme by Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and Erasmus School of Economics. Participants will learn to understand data techniques they can instantly apply in order to achieve business objectives.

Big data influences customer relationships, redefines how organisations develop new products and services, changes the way operations are organised and managed, improves demand and supply networks, and provides the basis for new business models. Using big data, retailers can predict what products will sell, telecom companies can predict if and when a customer might switch carriers, and car insurance companies understand how well their customers actually drive.

“As an energy grid operator, we increasingly need people that have the skill set to exploit big data to make our networks more efficient and smart and to develop new business models as part of the smart energy grid,” says Pieter den Hamer, lead big data, business intelligence and analytics at energy network operator Alliander. “This programme supports us in making the required transformation,” he said.

Data-driven transformation

”Immediately after a company decides to go digital, it will experience that the organisation goes through a data-driven transformation,” says Ruud Brink, digital transformation expert at PA Consulting, which specialises in management consulting, technology and innovation. “This programme helps to build the required data-driven capabilities and develops the leaders that are the first movers in participating organisations,” said Brink.

During the English-taught Leadership Challenges with Big Data programme, participants will engage with world-class <link executive-education open-programmes programmes leadership-challenges-with-big-data faculty _blank>academics and senior executives during <link executive-education open-programmes programmes leadership-challenges-with-big-data dates-fees _blank>eight days, spread over three months. The new executive programme has a strong focus on action based-learning and collaboration on business’ best practices. Participating company teams work on concrete company questions and data sets and are challenged to apply the concepts and techniques taught in the programme within their own organisations. They report back initial results in an evaluation-session at the end of the programme.

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