The Making of a Successful Analytics Master Degree Program: Experiences and Lessons From an Asian University

Singapore Management University's School of Information Systems is a young school within a young and small university in Asia. Being young and small, establishing a successful analytics master degree program required extensive landscape research, assessment of its own strengths and weaknesses,...

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Published in:International journal of business intelligence research 2017-07, Vol.8 (2), p.1-16
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