This document provides an introduction to a course on digital technologies and innovation. It is presented by Prof. Lee Schlenker and facilitated through the Business Analytics Institute. The 3-sentence summary is: The course aims to improve managerial decision making through the study of digital economics, data science, and data storytelling. Students will analyze case studies to understand business challenges, apply appropriate analytical methodologies, and integrate visual communications to transform data into recommendations. The course consists of six sessions covering topics like digital technologies, digital transformation, decision making, and innovation.

1. Digital Technologies and Innovation
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April 2018
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2. “For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat, and
wrong." H.L. Mencken
Is
AI
the future of
innovation?

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Agenda
Introduction
The Data Revolution
Time, Space and Organization
The Analytical Method
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4. Module Facilitator
I work with managers to help them
understand how enterprise applications,
web and mobile technologies can enrich
their careers.
The client portfolio in the ICT industry
includes Microsoft, Apple, Ernst & Young,
France Telecom, HP, IBM, Oracle and SAP
.
The work with the IT industry in Europe
has included fifty partner and customer
conferences, a dozen case studies, and
various marketing support activities.
Prof. Lee SCHLENKER,
The Business Analytics Institute
Mail : lee@lhstech.com
Skype : leeschlenker
Web : www.leeschlenker.com
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5. • Management is about taking decisions
• Improving decision making through the study
of digital economics, managerial decision
making, machine learning and data
storytelling
• Innovation isn’t a consequence of
technology, but of a state of mind
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lee@baieurope.com
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6. Course Portal:
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The objective of this course is to
build the students’ knowledge of the
practice of Business Analytics in a
variety of industrial settings
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7. This a place where managers and
students of management can discuss
and debate best practises in the digital
economy, new developments in data
science and decision making. Ask
questions and get practicable
answers, and learn how to use data in
decision making.
Analytics for Management
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8. Introduction
Artificial Intelligence?
• According to the author what is AI?
• Back in 1936, Isaac Asimov introduced
the idea of creating robots with human
qualities. What qualities are human?
• What is the difference between Artificial
Narrow and Artificial General
Intelligence?
• What is Artificial Super Intelligence?
• What are the drawbacks of AI?

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• Analyze the context of each case to document the
key processes of the organization or the market
• Qualify the data at hand to understand the nature of
the business challenges
• Apply the appropriate methodologies in your
predictive and prescriptive analyses, and
• Integrate elements of visual communications in
transforming the data into a call for collective
action
In this module , you will
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Innovation is a State of Mind
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Session 1 The Building Blocks
Session 2 Digital Technologies
Session 3 Digital Transformation
Session 4 Decision Making
Session 5 Innovation
Session 6 Data Storytelling

11. Grading Scale
Participation: 50% of your grade will be based upon your innovation project?
Final exam: 50% of your grade will be based upon your results on the final
multiple choice exam.
Develop a three to four-minute visual example of
innovation. In your project presentation make sure you
identify in separate scenes :
• the conflict or the opportunity (why should your
audience care about your story?)
• the context (what skills, knowledge or experience
has permitted this problem/opportunity to arise?)
• the roadmap (how does this product, service, idea
influence customer experience)
• the happy end (how will your audience evaluate your
story?)
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12. To help us understand the motivations, experience and
objectives of the internal and external clients of the
organization
 ROI
 Real time data
 ...
Stockholders
 Competition
 “made in”
“made by”
 ...
The State
 Peu de
barrières
d’entrée
 Acquisitions,
OPA...
Partners
 Loyalty
 Real costs
 ...
Clients
The Enterprise
 Mobility
 Empowerment
 ...
Employees
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15. • Management is all about taking better
decisions
• What do better decisions mean (faster,
more impressive, more precise) ?
• Is it observable – how is something more
precise answer to a problem?
• The challenge is deciding what we want to
measure
Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
Decision
Making
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16. • More data has been created in the
past two years than in the previous
history of the human race
• « Strategists still confuse
technology with purpose … instead
of garnering context and empathy
to inform change…” - Brian Solis
• We have more and more data – but
does this lead to better decisions?
What is data?
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17. • Scan the context
• Qualify the data at hand
• Choose the right method
• Transform data into action
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18. Lee SCHLENKER
Results
Actions
Knowledge
Context
Data
Process
Interprets
Decisions
Measures
Obtain
Define
Require
Drive
The ladder of initiatives™
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19. • What if the devices “completely go away
to be absorbed into the fabric of our lives?”
• Smart pills are an example of ambient
technologies that integrate into our
environments
• These Invisibles will create a world in
which we don’t see technology or sensors
• Can technology become human –
reacting to what makes each one of us
unique?
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20. • Properties - digital experiences put in place to
enrich organizational conversations
• Platforms – digital technologies that create
proximity between those that produce, and those
that consume, experience
• People – the managerial mindset
• Practice - the operational realities of management
Schlenker (2015)
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