As we all get settled into a new terms teaching, meeting this years students and welcoming back those who are progressing, the BAEF is pleased to announce an interesting and highly relevant talk. Save the date: Tuesday 30th September 5pm to 6pm (BST) From Grid to Dialogue: Unlocking the Value of a 2x2 Matrix in a Business Analytics Classroom Presented by David Sammon Brief Description of the Session The humble 2x2 matrix is more than just a visual aid, it's a powerful teaching artefact that can spark dialogue, surface tensions, and scaffold complex thinking in the Business Analytics classroom. In this talk, I will share my experience designing and using 2x2 matrices to promote analytical thinking and reflective practice across undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive education contexts. I will introduce four original matrices that emerged from practice and scholarly engagement, including: the BIG DATA Matrix, the Analytics Strategy Design Matrix, the Problem Validation Matrix, an...

  Today’s blog is all about how to design and create a business analytics programme at a university,  Dr Salimeh Mohammad kindly offered to share her experiences of designing a Business Analytics and Data Science programme at Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom.   Salimeh is an Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, and she gave us a live talk about her approach to designing the curriculum, the course contents, teaching methods, and student support.    A recording of the talk is available on our YouTube Channel  . .   In the following article Dr Chris Davies from Bangor Business School has summarised Salimeh's talk, boiling down all of those tips and tricks we might find useful.   So, if you’re an academic who is also designing a business analytics program this talk is for you.   The first step in designing the programme is to have a clear definition of what analytics, and thus business analytics, is.   Sal...

  Greetings educators Apologies for the radio silence we have been busy behind the scenes lining up some interesting events for this year and to kick things off we have a visit from KNIME.   Save the date: Monday 24th March 5pm to 6pm Presented by Dr Stefan Helfrich   Brief Description of the Session   In this workshop, participants will learn about the basics of the low-code KNIME Analytics Platform and how they can use it to include visual workflows in their teaching. We will create a simple workflow to familiarize attendees with KNIME, followed by a more comprehensive tour of the platform highlighting the advantages of using KNIME for teaching data-related topics in educational settings. Lastly, we'll dive into a more elaborate use case featuring an interactive data app to showcase practical ap...

Presented by one of our board members Dr Marios Kremantzis Brief Description of the Session Marios sits on the organising committee at the BAEF and is Chair of the Operational Research Society’s OR-Analytics-Education Special Interest Group. In this session he will present current work related to two highly quantitative units that adopted Chatbot as a teaching assistant: Prescriptive Analytics as part of the MSc Business Analytics, and Mathematics for Economists, for BSc Economics students. This highly prescient subject promises to be an informative and enjoyable session with other colleagues dedicated to teaching Business Analytics well. Profile: Marios Kremantzis is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Business Analytics at the University of Bristol, where he also serves as the Program Director of the MSc Business Analytics and as Senior PGT Tutor. Additionally, he is the Co-Editor in Chief of the open-access journal Intelligent Technologies in Education (ITEd). With a PhD in Manageme...

  We are proud to announce our summer seminars coming up on 24th June 2024, between 12 and 1pm, Lunchtime session “What Analytics Tools do Companies Use and What Skills do They Require” 14th August 4.30 to 5.30pm, Early evening session “Motivations and Challenges of Embedding and Delivering Business Analytics in an Accounting Postgraduate Programme”   We do hope you will be able to join us for these highly informative and useful events.   First up our Chair, Dr Christina J Phillips and Ms Zhuoyi Deng MSc 24th June 2024, between 12 and 1pm Brief Description of the Session   Back in 2018 Jia Woh, a student at University of Leeds Business School began a QSteps funded project with Christina. The project was designed to look at  ‘What Analytics Tools do Companies Use and What Skills do They Require’   and Jia began this by interviewing 7 company leaders and covering the current literature to develop a questionnaire.   Zoom forward 5 years and the project wa...

This time round we are going to be looking directly at the planning and execution of a successful Business Analytics programme with an active BAEF member who has implemented multiple programmes and has some great tips and tricks up her sleeve that could help you in your planning and delivery.  Dr  Salimeh Pour Mohammad   is an Associate Professor and Curriculum Designer in Business Analytics at the University of Warwick Business School. Before joining WBS, she was a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of MSc Business Analytics at the University of Exeter Business School. She was also a member of the University-Wide Data Science Education Committee as well as the Accreditations and Ranking group at Exeter. Prior to that, Salimeh has worked as a lecturer for UG and PG programs at the University of West London Business School where she led management courses on four international campuses (UAE, China, Cyprus and London) from the London campus. Before that Salimeh has work...

 On 12th February we hosted SMA Moin who gave a fascinating talk about the use of storytelling in the classroom. Thanks to our media wizard, Allen Higgins (University College Dublin), we can now link to a video of the event and the stimulating discussion that it prompted. I hope you find it as enjoyable and interesting as we did :)  Please like/share/comment on the video in YouTube to help us gain reach and publicise this great work by Moin.

A link to the recording of this event can be found in the previous post. On 14 th December 2023 the BAEF held a webinar discussing the rising use of AI in industry and what we as educators can do to prepare our students for working within environments that use AI systems.  The event was well attended, and the four speakers were Marilena Karanika who is Head of Innovation at Experian, Balagopal Madhusoodhanan who, at the time, was Principal Architect, Supply Chain & Intelligent Automation at TJX inc. (now with Chanel), Luke Vilain who is leading UBSs risk assessment for Generative AI, and James Winters who is the AI Ethics and Governance Officer at Deeper Insights.   All four have a wealth of experience in using and implementing AI in highly regulated environments, and they are all keen proponents of the ethical use of AI.  The session opened with the guests describing what they do in their jobs and outside of them.   The first question focused on what the...