Accenture Strategic Business Analytics Chair
Innovations in digitization and automation are creating performance and productivity opportunities for business and the economy. Each day, a staggering number of data is generated to provide insights to decision makers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning enables us to analyze a large variety and volume of complex data to deliver fast and accurate insights. Today, the priority is to leverage data for data driven decision making and to bridge the gap between units within an organization. To achieve this, companies are looking for analytics talent to drive value that contributes to the organization’s success.
Accenture and ESSEC with the Strategic Business Analytics Chair (SBA) are committed to train the next generation of leaders who will be extensively using data to make successful strategic decisions. Our dynamic teaching methods, designed for the Chair, ensure a rigorous, immersive and impactful learning experience. We shape future talents to the right mind-set, interpersonal and analytical skills to create business value. Finally, it’s also our priority to cultivate creativity and to build capacity to change.
Future jobs: consulting, business analyst, product manager, etc.
"The success of our Chair is a student centric program focused on value creation with data and technology, finding creative solutions to key real world problems for business and society"
Chair Director, Accenture Strategic Business Analytics Chair
6 Compulsary courses reserved to students admitted to this Chair.
As teams, cracking strategic cases with operational datasets provided by our partners.
Topics addressed have tangible impact on companies’ business and encompass a wide range of issues, including social and green ones : “Reducing water shortage in the future”, “Personalizing HCP relationships to accelerate medical validation processes”, “Limiting energy losses”, “Making renewable energies production more efficient”, “Promoting frugal tourism”, “Fighting against social fraud”,“Limiting over-indebtedness”...
Seminars on Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Alumni talks.
Skills that you will acquire : Driving a project using applied analytics to actionable outcomes. R - Python - Tableau - Dataiku - Presentation skills - Data regulation such as GDPR - Understand what data valorization is, from both business and societal viewpoints.
The team members of the best-rated case and the five students with highest total final grading will be invited to a study trip in June (Nice in 2021, Barcelona in 2022...).
We have about 400 Chair Alumni. They are a crucial part of the Chair ecosystem and help by continuing to engage with us regarding the cases, by meeting the students during our Alumni talks or by giving invited lectures.
Possibility to work as research assistant.
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Business Analytics Experts in consulting firms, the financial sector, the pharmaceutical industry, telecommunications, energy, retailing and fast-moving consumer goods companies and in web analytics or digital companies.
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Business Analysts, Consultants and Project Managers in Strategy.
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Business Analytics, Strategic Marketing, or Operations.
Duration: 6 months from January to June
Integration Day/Integration weekend (january)
Immersion week (february)
KPI Lunch, it is a lunch where students and Chair partners meet. They share information, progress and ideas on their case study (march)
"Artificial Intelligence for Business" seminars (april)
Grand Jury (may)
Alumni Event (june)
Chair Director
Chair co-founder
Managing Director, Accenture
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