Special Topics in Information Technology: Advanced Business Research

1 credits · Owen Graduate School of Management

This course prepares students to use professional business intelligence tools effectively to inform data driven business decisions. They will walk away with a framework and experience-base to efficiently source, and critically evaluate, the right data for relevant business use cases. The foundational knowledge about how business information is produced, packaged, licensed, and sold will help students make the most of quickly evolving AI based knowledge systems. The course will include a combination of brief talks on key concepts, demonstrations using a diverse set of business information products and practice-based discussions on relevant issues such as responsible use and emerging technologies including AI applications. Students will have options to apply these skills to specific topics / industries / companies of professional interest to explore throughout the course. The course will also accommodate different technical proficiency levels in using AI tools for business research. [1]