100% Online MBA with Business Analytics

Explore the foundational concepts and models of leadership, including transformational, inspirational, and charismatic leadership. You will also examine the sociological turn and development of critical leadership studies, and how culture can shape the identity and performance of leaders, as well as the expectations of followers. Additionally, you will learn about the challenges of working with diverse groups, including regional and national cultures, and how to exercise responsible leadership, including power, influence, and ethics. This module will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to become an effective and responsible leader in your chosen field.

Develop a critical understanding of essential management accounting and finance topics within a business environment and learn the importance of managing customer value parameters (cost, quality, and time) through management accounting practices for value creation.

Develop critical insights into the process of change management and explore the models of change management, and how these can be effectively implemented within organisations. You will examine how the process of change can be led, and moreover the specific roles people have in that change process. Leading change is not without its complexities and as such you will further consider the varying approaches that can be taken to minimise some of the challenges that organisations and stakeholders may experience from change.

Evaluate and apply project management theories, tools, and techniques to design a project management approach based on a case study. Issues such as the nature and scope of a project, the project methodology, contracting and working with suppliers in project management, planning of project activities, delegation and team management, communications planning, quality management, cost planning and control, risk management, baselining and project change management, time control and project closure are all explored. Finally, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the higher-level function of managing and leading a project.

The module incorporates strategic concepts, tools, and techniques that organisations can employ to assess their environment and resources and make strategic decisions towards long-term success. The knowledge and skills developed in this module are transferrable and used in a broad range of management functions.

Explore the sources of data and how data is collected, processed, and presented, and then continue the data lifecycle by considering how this is used within informed decision-making processes within contemporary enterprises. Upon completing this module, you will be able to answer questions such as: How can businesses be certain that their data is reliable and valid? How can they link that to a primary function within management and leadership, making decisions.

In this module, you will develop the skills to interpret data and the outputs of various analytical methods and communicate insights to a range of stakeholders through appropriate presentation and visualisation. Based on a range of existing data sets constituting different types of data, you will learn to describe relationships among various variables, extract the insights and stories hidden in the data, and present your findings clearly in a meaningful way relevant in data-driven business environments. The module provides you with essential practical problem-solving and data analytical techniques, and focuses on the prioritisation, presentation and communication of the insights needed to tackle business problems. This module explores how to handle data programmatically without being data scientists. The module introduces you to software for the investigation, visualisation, and sharing of varied and complex data sets, including analytical outputs, graphs, charts, dashboards and data-storytelling.

Business forecasting and data modelling are the core elements of business analytics. In response to a rapidly changing skill set required by businesses, the module will employ a variety of methodologies. The learning journey includes distinguishing the true “signal” from a universe of "noise" through the lenses of forecasting and modelling. This module covers the typical methodological steps of a prediction exercise, statistical modelling, and artificial intelligence methodologies for prediction in different business settings. This module explores fundamental techniques used for predictive analytics: regression, classification, clustering, Bayesian and machine learning approaches and models. You will develop skills in classification and the techniques for clustering and regression to solve common business problems; you will also learn techniques for assessing the effectiveness of your solution.

This module takes a strategic view of business process flows and systems to support analytics and business re-engineering. Students will gain a systems view and an understanding of the general system development lifecycle and the activities and personnel roles applicable at each lifecycle stage, as well as the concepts of professional standards and codes for systems analysis and design projects. This will include learning how to specify system requirements and use systems analysis and design techniques to develop workable solutions to business system problems. Further, students will learn to develop business systems projects, including advanced modelling concepts and techniques for building complex systems models.

Gain the knowledge and skills required to carry out a project at master’s level successfully. You will develop essential research skills and knowledge that you can apply within the context of business. Starting with developing a philosophical underpinning of knowledge appropriate for master’s level study, you will learn good research practice and research design. You will also explore the design of data collection instruments, data collection processes, data analysis and management methods, and research ethics.

This project enables you to build upon your programme modules to develop and apply the skills of research and independent inquiry to a self-selected project which contributes insights and advances understanding to a subject, field or profession. You will be required to design and undertake a small-scale independent research project, relevant to your field of study and/or professional practice, reflecting on the application of the insights you generate. You will be required to exhibit a professional approach, academic rigour, independence, critical thought and self-direction with the input of a supervisor.