Course overview
Learn how the core principles, concepts and practical applications of data and analytical techniques are used in digital and data-driven marketing.
What you'll learn
- Identify the drivers of value, risk and cost in data used by the marketing department
- Plan your organisational strategy for data collection, permissioning and management
- Understand how data drives marketing and the impact of data quality
- Create an effective data management strategy
- Construct a data strategy that adheres to current and forthcoming legislation and regulation
- Build a secure data management culture that enables marketing innovation
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
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Duration study load
- 35 CPD hours
Assessment
In order to attain the Award in Data and Analysis and use the honorifics, you must successfully pass 1 online exam.
Delivery
Online
Enjoy the flexibility of devising your own personalised study routine with your programme deadlines via a stream of online content run over 12 months. You will receive email support and 24/7 access to course materials.
Who's it for?
The online Data Analysis course is ideal for professionals currently employed in commercial and public sector companies across all sectors, including professional services and not for profit. Equally agencies, consultancies and suppliers servicing their data management needs will benefit by enrolling staff.
Data professionals
Data professionals within client organisations, including database and data managers, data stewards, data analysts, data planners, data protection officers, data quality managers, data processing managers – all of whom advise, influence, co-ordinate, manage or direct data policies and processes.
Marketing professionals
Marketing professionals – client, agency or supplier side – who wholly or partly have responsibility for data collection, storage and use, and whose effectiveness is dependent on best practice data management. This includes managers and executives in marketing, direct marketing, digital marketing, CRM, e-commerce and customer insight.
Subjects
Learning objective: To understand the basics of marketing data and its role and importance within your business
- Understand what data is and where it comes from
- Assess the role and importance of data within a business
- Identify some key techniques for adding value to data
- Understand how to classify data according to reliability, stability and content
- Gain awareness of key data types and sources
Learning objective: To understand the key concepts of data quality
- Understand why data quality is important in sustaining your business
- Assess what good data quality loos like
- Identify the origins of poor quality data
- Evaluate the impact that poor data quality can have over your business
- Understand how to move towards a single customer view
Learning objective: To understand how manage data and data quality issues
- Appreciate the reasons for managing data quality
- Understand good and bad data management practices
- Identify the key components of data quality improvement
- Appreciate the value to the business of data quality improvement
- Understand practical techniques for cleansing your data
- Assess the maturity of your organisation in respect of data quality management
Learning objective: To understand the role of the database and how to plan/build one.
- Identify the role of a database
- Appreciate the different types of database structures
- Understand how to plan and build a database
Learning objective: To help you understand the role of technology in managing data
- Understand the importance of data preparation
- Recognise the different types of data (internal and external) that support analytical processes, including data profiling
- Identify the role of data mining and how it can be used to generate insight
Learning objective: To help you understand segmentation and predictive modelling
- Appreciate the role of segmentation and predictive modelling when trying to glean insights from your data
- Understand the range of statistical techniques you can use to understand your data better
Learning objective: To assess the importance of data security for your business
- Understand the three core principles of data and information security; confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- Assess what good data security looks like in practice
- Manage and measure the risks related to data security
- Understand how to handle a data security breach
- Evaluate the cost and damage to your business of getting data security wrong
Learning objective: To understand why good data governance is essential and how to accurately assess your own organisation’s current data capability on the Data Governance Maturity Model
- Understand what data governance is and why it’s important to your organisation
- Review the impact of inadequate data governance
- Understand your organisation’s current data capability
- Plot your position on the Data Governance Maturity Model and monitor your progress
- Organise for successful data governance and data management
- Develop and implement a successful data governance strategy
- Appreciate the legal and regulatory regime which governs personal data
About Institute of Data & Marketing
For 30 years, it's been our mission to provide best-in-class training, qualifications, events, resources and membership services to meet the real-world needs of today's digital, direct and data marketers.
Committed to helping every marketer be the best they can be, the Institute of Data & Marketing exists to support, encourage and improve marketing performance from your first steps on the career ladder, right to the very top.
Every Institute of Data & Marketing programme is designed and delivered by practising marketers, who know what it takes to succeed at the job and dedicated to helping you succeed in yours. The Institute of Data & Marketing advocates lifelong learning. We maintain up-to-date training and qualifications portfolio designed to meet the needs of marketing practitioners throughout their careers—at every stage, from college student to senior marketing manager.
The Institute of Data & Marketing has a worldwide reputation for the quality and practical nature of its training and qualifications. Our services – for individual marketers and businesses – are in demand worldwide as more and more businesses seek to apply personal, customer-centric, one-to-one marketing.
