MS4253 - Business Analytics Project
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Offering Academic Unit | Department of Decision Analytics and Operations | Credit Units | 3 | Course Duration | One Semester | Pre-requisite(s) | | Course Offering Term*: | Not offering in current academic year |
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice |
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Course Aims
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This course aims to
- develop students' skills in translating a real problem into a problem statement from unstructured initial ideas, identifying the key issues, defining the scope of the problem and breaking down the work into a set of tasks to be accomplished systematically;
- develop students' problem-solving skills in the business environment by providing them with techniques to break down the work into a set of tasks to be accomplished systematically;
- develop students' analytic ability to integrate and apply the knowledge and quantitative skills, in particular business analytics, statistics and business intelligence techniques, gained in the programme to solve project problems;
- develop students' ability in planning, conducting, managing and controlling their own projects;
- provide students with the opportunity to develop their skills in presenting the findings of their own project and explaining the implications of the results in a verbal presentation and written report.
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Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)
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Continuous Assessment: 100% |
Students are reminded to observe the following work schedule: Week 5 Submit 3 copies of the project proposal to Department's office before 5:00 pm. (Any late submission will lead to a 20% reduction in marks for this assessment task as a penalty.) Week 14 Submit 2 hard copies of the final project report and 1 disk version to the Department's office before 12:00 noon. (Any late submission will lead to a 20% reduction in marks for this assessment task as a penalty To Be Arranged Oral presentation of the project. The exact time and date will be arranged by supervisors. |
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Detailed Course Information
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MS4253.pdf
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