Programme Overview
The myths, promises, and realities surrounding business analytics need to be confronted and addressed by the senior management teams of organizations in today’s volatile business landscape. As the conventional differentiators of competitive advantage start vanishing fast, use of data driven intelligence has started emerging as the game changer. Understanding the emerging nature of competition, planning a roadmap for enhancing competitive capability, and visualizing the future of analytics-oriented competition have become a necessity for senior management in organizations.
Data-smart firms are developing new models of decision-making that exploit overwhelming amounts of data to make smart products and services for consumers. The potential to create value by data aggregation and analysis is huge, and firms leveraging analytics are at a vantage point in their competitive landscape. Newer sets of capabilities are required to bring the value of the data gathered from all the frontline processes.
The Senior Management Programme in Business Analytics (SMPBA) is an intensive, 8-month, multi-modular, programme. This programme is targeted towards senior managers who appreciate how analytics could unleash value for the firm and its consumers.
Programme Objective
- To pave ways for improving organizational readiness in using data analytics as a powerful mechanism for business model innovation
- To recognize and inculcate necessary capabilities comprising analytical tools and techniques with behavioral skills toward competitive advantage
Programme Directors
Who Should Attend
Leaders/Executives who want to drive strategic initiatives at their organisation through analytics. The inherent nature of the subject requires familiarity with high-school-level mathematics and a penchant for analytical thinking. The participants should be mentally prepared to view appropriate business problems through the lens of data and analytics to appreciate the complexities and leverage the associated opportunities.
Eligibility
Working executives who are graduates (10+2+3 or equivalent)/postgraduates in any discipline with minimum 50% marks, with an experience profile of at least 8 years after graduation are eligible.Programme Duration and Delivery
The programme will spread over eight months.There will be three campus modules of 5 days each. Some live online sessions will be conducted over the technology platform between campus modules.
Campus Dates :
1st Module: 15-19 December 2025 (Check-in on 14th December: Check-out on 19th December post lunch)
2nd Module: 06-10 April 2026 (Check-in on 5th April; Check-out on 10th April post lunch)
3rd Module: 06-10 July 2026 (Check-in on 06th July; Check-out on 10th July post lunch)
Pedagogy
The pedagogy will be highly interactive including Campus Immersion at IIM Calcutta and D2D modules. This is a blended programme which includes classroom lectures, D2D modules, real-life case studies, group discussions, simulations.Programme Content
| Sl No | Content | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The business value of data analytics | Assessing analytics readiness in your business |
| Building high-performance data science and analytics teams | ||
| Competing with data and analytics | ||
| Building a data-driven organization | ||
| 2 | Statistics for Decision-making | Applying statistical thinking to business decision-making |
| Using applied probability for managing uncertainty | ||
| Inferring population insights through data sampling | ||
| Capturing variable relationships with regression analysis | ||
| 3 | Data Preparation & Descriptive Analytics | Identifying data sources and filtering raw data for modelling |
| Extracting, cleaning, analyzing outliers and reducing dimensionality in datasets | ||
| Performing exploratory data analysis for empirical insight generation | ||
| Creating effective data visualizations for decision support | ||
| Designing experiments and preprocessing for business analysis and testing | ||
| Applying causal inference to interpret observational data | ||
| Interpreting statistical summaries for business relevance | ||
| 4 | Predictive Analytics & Machine Learning | Applying forecasting techniques for business planning |
| Using supervised learning and classification models in decision-making | ||
| Applying unsupervised learning and clustering to discover patterns | ||
| Conducting time series analysis for data-driven forecasting | ||
| Enhancing decisions with supervised machine learning models | ||
| Leveraging neural networks and deep learning for business intelligence | ||
| 5 | Prescriptive Analytics for Strategic Decisions | Using simulation models to explore decision outcomes |
| Applying decision analysis for individual and group choices | ||
| Solving complex problems using optimization models | ||
| Understanding strategic behavior with game theory and network effects | ||
| 6 | Case studies of Applied Business Analytics Across Functions | Applying people analytics for planning workforce productivity and effectiveness |
| Using marketing analytics to optimize customer engagement and ROI | ||
| Leveraging financial analytics for better forecasting and optimization decisions | ||
| Improving organizational process efficiencies through operations analytics | ||
| Enhancing supply chain performance with analytics-driven insights | ||
| 7 | GenAI and Agentic AI Applications in Business | Exploring the business impact of GenAI and agentic AI systems |
| Using GenAI to enhance business analytics and storytelling | ||
| Generating and refining data visualizations with GenAI tools | ||
| Designing agentic AI systems to support or automate business decisions |
- Capstone Projects
Programme Sample Certificate
Alumni Status
- LDP participants who complete the programme successfully become the Alumni of IIMC Executive Education, which currently has over 30,000 members.
- LDP Alumni are given an email-id in the IIM Calcutta domain.
- LDP Alumni can register in the IIM Calcutta Alumni portal either with this email-id or with their personal email-ids. The IIM Calcutta Alumni portal is a common platform for Alumni of all programmes of the Institute to interact with each other and stay connected with the Institute.
- The Institute shares newsletters, important news and articles about the Institute and its activities, the achievements of the Institute's faculty, staff, students and alumni, upcoming events and programmes etc., on the portal.
- Alumni can post their achievements, write about jobs or LIVE project opportunities for other alumni to see.
- The IIM Calcutta alumni network can also be accessed on mobile phones through the mobile app.
- Executive Education Alumni are entitled to a discount of 5% on the programme fee if they opt to do another LDP.
- By using the different features of the IIM Calcutta portal, alumni across programmes can engage with each other in many meaningful ways. It is up to the alumni themselves to leverage the platform
How to Apply
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Contact Details:Name: Hasini Bhupathi
Email ID: hasini.b[at]talentsprint[dot]com
Phone: 7331112138
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