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Philip OliverSenior Lecturer @
Northumbria UniversityInformation Sciences
• 1 wife (Scottish)• 2 kids (Half Scottish)• 0 dogs• Sunderland & Hibs
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Where the rain forest meets the ocean
Gill & Bertie
Me
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Business Issues/Drivers
The IT Value Hierarchy (Urwiler & Frolick, 2008)
Pyramid of Needs
Metaphorically Speaking…
Big Data!
The amount of information created and replicated will surpass 1.9 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) in 2011 – growing by a factor of 9 in just five years.
Recent IDC Digital Universe study
Who is best placed and skilled to deal with all of this data??
Are we producing graduates capable of doing these jobs?
A McKinsey Global Institute report in 2011 projected that the US will need 1.5 million “data-savvy managers and analysts” by 2018 to take full
advantage of big data.
Who are these graduates and where will they
come from?
That’s a lot of skills for 1 person!!
And do they need other skills too?
And how can we possibly fill the demand?
• A McKinsey Global Institute report in 2011 projected that the US will need 1.5 million “data-savvy managers and analysts” by 2018 to take full advantage of big data.
• A separate international survey sponsored by BI Congress II found that graduating students lack the required ‘data-savvy’ knowledge today.
• Michael Goul, professor of Information Systems and Teradata University Network Executive Board member stated , “As professors, we’re concerned that our students graduate with not only the technical knowledge they need to be analytics professionals, but also the business understanding to put that knowledge to use” (Teradata, 2012).
• Jason Hiner, editor in chief of TechRepublic talks about the role of the ‘Data Scientist’ not being new but that it has evolved into one of the hottest jobs in technology today. He states that IBM have suggested there will be 1.2 million new jobs in big data analytics created over the next decade with a large portion of those being for ‘data scientists’.
So, what’s the state of BI education?
In the US, Barbara Wixom and Thilini Ariyachandra conducted a survey in collaboration with Teradata University Network (TUN) in 2010…
…identifying the wide skill set required for graduates, and the need to cultivate collaboration between different disciplines e.g. IS, Business, Maths to provide a holistic grounding in BI.
IS & Maths – seems logical… but Business!!!
Technology - Technology is a use of science to meet a need.
Technology Driver - The technology drivers are the critical variables that determine which
technology alternatives will be pursued
Technology Planning - Technology planning is the process for identifying,
selecting, and investing in the technologies that are required to support those product
and service requirements
Technology Roadmap - A technology roadmap is the output of the technology
road mapping process at either the corporate or the industry level.
(Garcia & Bray, 1997)
This Way!
So, the overall aim of the research is to provide a framework for BI education in UK universities. The objectives to achieve this aim are:• Identify business BI needs• Identify skills sets that need improving or are
missing• Identify the existing HE provision of BI
education• Identify the gap between the two• Develop a BI education framework to
narrow/fill the gap
Research paradigm
Research methodology
Research method
Research technique
Research instrument
Interpretivist Qualitative Lit Review & Case studies
Interview and/or questionnaire
Data analysis - thematic coding
e.g. NVivo
How ???
Hopefully a bit of business
acumen, common sense
and tact!!
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