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IIT Roorkee collaborated with Simplilearn to launch an online business course

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Posted on 12 Jul 2022
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IIT Roorkee launches Business Analytics for Strategic Decision Making

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Summary
IIT Roorkee launches an online business analytics course for professionals
The course curriculum designed by the IIT Roorkee faculty and presented in collaboration with Simplilearn

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee and Simplilearn, a provider of digital skills training, have collaborated to launch a Business Analytics for Strategic Decision Making programme. The programme will be taught online and is targeted at executives and professionals.

The course curriculum, designed by the IIT Roorkee faculty and presented in collaboration with Simplilearn, will teach students to unearth data's actual worth and make data-driven business decisions. The curriculum also covers the fundamentals of business analytics, including statistics, predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, and machine learning techniques, as well as data visualisation, data storytelling, and other techniques.

The programme is best suited for professionals with at least 6 years of work experience from a variety of industries and backgrounds, such as business analysts, mid to senior-level managers, C-suite executives, consultants, and business heads, who want to use analytics to make better and more efficient business decisions.

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Anand Narayan, Chief Product Officer of Simplilearn said, “... This programme, created with IIT-Roorkee’s faculty experts in the domain, will provide extensive exposure to our learners in leveraging Business Analytics to make stronger business decisions, enabling professionals to upskill themselves further, become more efficient, and open doors to new growth opportunities.”

Professor Ajit K Chaturvedi, Director of IIT Roorkee also shared a few words on the collaboration, “Data-driven methods and techniques are transforming the world of Engineering, Technology, Commerce and Society at large…We believe collaboration between IIT Roorkee and Simplilearn will educate individuals and empower organizations.”

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