Data Centric Leadership: Leveraging on Data for Insightful Decision Making
In the modern business environment, data-centric leadership is essential for guiding organizations toward sustainable success. This overview focuses on the principles of data-centric leadership, emphasizing its role in driving informed decision-making and fostering innovation. Building and sustaining a data-driven culture involves identifying and cultivating key components such as data literacy, accessibility, and collaboration across the organization. A culture that values data enables teams to consistently use evidence-based insights to solve problems, innovate, and achieve strategic goals.By integrating data into the decision-making process, leaders can mitigate risks, identify new opportunities, and refine strategies to align with evolving market demands.
To support these objectives, mastering data visualization tools like MS Excel and/or Power BI is essential. These tools transform complex datasets into clear, actionable visuals that facilitate better understanding and communication of insights. Effective data presentation ensures that stakeholders at all levels can engage with and act on the information presented. Finally, the ability to turn data insights into actionable strategies is a cornerstone of data-centric leadership. Leaders must not only interpret data but also translate it into strategies that drive measurable outcomes. This requires a deep understanding of both the data itself and the broader business context, ensuring that actions taken are aligned with organizational goals and deliver tangible results.
Course Outline
Objective
- Define the principles of data-centric leadership and its importance
- Identify Key Components build and sustain a data-driven culture
- Identify how data can be used to drive strategic decisions
- Explore Data Visualization Tools like Ms. Excel/Power Bi to present data effectively
- Develop an understanding of how to turn data insights into actionable strategies
Module: Foundations of Data Centric Leadership
- Defining data-centric Leadership an its importance
- Cultivating a data driven mindset within your team
- Case studies of successful data-driven initiatives within the industry
- Hands-On: Visualization Tool Familiarization & Use Case Formulation
Module: Tapping on diverse and disparate data, data visualization & compelling Storytelling
- Centralizing data for holistic and consistent data analysis
- Best Practices for data visualization
- Creating compelling data stories
- Identifying actionable insights
- Hands On: Data Consolidation, integration of visuals and narratives and dashboard creation
Programme Details
Date: 24 September 2024, Tuesday
Time: 9.00am–5.00pm (breakfast starts at 8.30am)
Admission Price: RM60.00* (material, certification & meal)
Speaker : Dr. Bhawani Selvaretnam
*This a Non-HRD Corp Claimable programme.
Venue
Malaysia HR Forum Academy
Level 12, Menara PKNS, Jalan Yong Shook Lin,
46050, Petaling Jaya, Selangor
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About The Trainer
Bhawani is a data enthusiast with a specialization in AI and Data Analytics. She has accumulated more than 15 years of experience dealing with acquisition and mining of structured and unstructured data towards solving business problems in fully-funded (government and private sponsors) analytics projects. She has led the design and development of analytics models and frameworks, earning Silver and Gold medals at the 27th International Invention and Innovation Exhibition (ITEX) for her work in text analytics and natural language understanding, specifically in developing an IoT-based Road Traffic Information System and a Smart Education platform. Throughout her career, Bhawani has collaborated with clients from various industries to develop talent, provide consulting, and deliver data analytics solutions. She remains active in R&D through her collaboration with researchers in higher education institutions, leading to discoveries that meet industry needs and contribute to scholarly publications. Bhawani obtained her PhD in Information Technology, with a focus on Natural Language understanding and text analytics, from Monash University.
She is a Professional Technologist, endorsed by the Malaysian Board of Technologists and a Certified Technical Trainer as provisioned by the Ministry of Human Resources, Malaysia. Bhawani serves as the Lead Data Scientist and Director of Data & Analytics at Valiantlytix Sdn. Bhd, where she establishes strategies for data product and analytics solution development. She leads developers and data scientists in architecting solutions that address specific business challenges, enabling data curation and generation of insights, with a focus on HR and retail/brand analytics.