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Strategic Decision Making For Leaders Through AI And Analytics

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Ms. Ifat Sheikh: sdml-exed@iima.ac.in | +91 70690 29949 (Office hours Mon to Fri, 9:00 AM to 5:45 PM)

The advent of Artificial intelligence (AI) has caused a paradigm shift in the business landscape, revolutionizing the way organizations operate. AI has become a catalyst for propelling innovation, and enhancing productivity, while also enabling organisations to expand their horizons and embrace ambitious goals.

This programme sensitizes participants on how companies can harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to make strategic decisions and operate in radically different ways to achieve leadership and excellence in the digital era. The programme enables participants to diagnose business problems, conduct in-depth analysis of structured and unstructured data using statistical and machine learning techniques, and understand how best to generate business insights and make them actionable. The programme teaches participants how to combine analytics with various emerging technologies and impact firm performance. The value created by Internet of Things, Blockchain, Augmented Reality, Digital Twins, and Robotics increases manifold when they leverage the power of AI and analytics to drive data-driven decision making. Through various exemplars and best practices, this programme showcases how to overcome and technological and organizational challenges and successfully execute AI and analytics projects for innovation and growth.

  • To leverage structured and unstructured data using machine learning techniques and generate tactical and strategic insights for strategic decision making.
  • To overcome the technological and organizational challenges in integrating emerging technologies with capabilities in AI and analytics for achieving competitive advantage.
  • To adopt a cross-disciplinary approach for developing competencies, fostering innovation, and implementing projects in AI and analytics successfully.

  • The need for analytics and AI for strategic decision making.
  • Machine learning techniques for structured and unstructured data analytics.
  • AI and analytics for blockchain, IoT, Augmented Reality, Digital Twins, and Robotics.
  • Managing AI and analytics competencies and projects in organizations.
  • Fostering innovation and growth through AI and analytics

The pedagogy will include lectures, case studies, role plays, mini projects, and presentations.

This programme is targeted to senior and mid-level managers from private and public sector firms who are involved in strategic decision-making using business analytics, AI and emerging technologies.

Faculty Chair(s)
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Prof. Adrija Majumdar

Promotion Coordinators
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Ifat Sheikh

Programme Coordinator Promotion

iima-exed12@iima.ac.in
Introduction

The advent of Artificial intelligence (AI) has caused a paradigm shift in the business landscape, revolutionizing the way organizations operate. AI has become a catalyst for propelling innovation, and enhancing productivity, while also enabling organisations to expand their horizons and embrace ambitious goals.

This programme sensitizes participants on how companies can harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to make strategic decisions and operate in radically different ways to achieve leadership and excellence in the digital era. The programme enables participants to diagnose business problems, conduct in-depth analysis of structured and unstructured data using statistical and machine learning techniques, and understand how best to generate business insights and make them actionable. The programme teaches participants how to combine analytics with various emerging technologies and impact firm performance. The value created by Internet of Things, Blockchain, Augmented Reality, Digital Twins, and Robotics increases manifold when they leverage the power of AI and analytics to drive data-driven decision making. Through various exemplars and best practices, this programme showcases how to overcome and technological and organizational challenges and successfully execute AI and analytics projects for innovation and growth.

Objectives
  • To leverage structured and unstructured data using machine learning techniques and generate tactical and strategic insights for strategic decision making.
  • To overcome the technological and organizational challenges in integrating emerging technologies with capabilities in AI and analytics for achieving competitive advantage.
  • To adopt a cross-disciplinary approach for developing competencies, fostering innovation, and implementing projects in AI and analytics successfully.

Contents
  • The need for analytics and AI for strategic decision making.
  • Machine learning techniques for structured and unstructured data analytics.
  • AI and analytics for blockchain, IoT, Augmented Reality, Digital Twins, and Robotics.
  • Managing AI and analytics competencies and projects in organizations.
  • Fostering innovation and growth through AI and analytics

Pedagogy

The pedagogy will include lectures, case studies, role plays, mini projects, and presentations.

For Whom

This programme is targeted to senior and mid-level managers from private and public sector firms who are involved in strategic decision-making using business analytics, AI and emerging technologies.

Faculty Chair
Adrija Majumdar is a faculty member of the Information Systems area at IIM Ahmedabad. At IIMA she teaches courses on AI for business, digital transformation, social media analytics and managerial computing. She has been involved in executive teaching with organisations operating in the field of manufacturing, retail, health, public sector, infrastructure, airline, finance and banking, etc. She has authored multiple teaching cases registered with IIMA and IIM Calcutta case research centre. Her research interests are in the field of AI. Her research articles have been published in reputed international journals such as Production and Operations Management, Information & Management, International Journal of Information & Management, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Information Systems Frontiers, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, Communications of AIS, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Industrial Management & Data Systems, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, and Annals of Operations Research, etc.

She has presented her work at several international and national conferences and has won multiple best paper awards. Her research articles have appeared in conference proceedings of IEEE, ACM, and Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. She completed her PhD from IIM Calcutta in Management Information Systems and holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology. She worked as a senior research assistant at the City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon and in Cognizant Technology and Solutions.
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Prof. Adrija Majumdar

Dates

22 Feb 2027

to

26 Feb 2027

Duration

5 Days

Programme
Fees

INR 2,00,000

Plus 18% GST

Application Deadline

08 Feb 2027

Early Bird
Fees

INR 1,86,000

Plus 18% GST

Early Bird Deadline

01 Feb 2027

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