Leadership & Management Learning Path

Leadership and Management is a key success factor for BI programs and projects, with a strong focus on effectively integrating people, processes, and technology to deliver business value. The field requires depth of process knowledge including development methodology, program management, and project management, as well as organizational and team-building skills.

An understanding of business topics such as business performance management (BPM), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM) is also needed. A high-level technical understanding of BI applications and data warehousing concepts is also part of the Leadership and Management body of knowledge.

Roles in the Leadership and Management specialty include:

• Program Manager
• Project Manager
• Business Intelligence Architect

Other courses of interest:

• TDWI Introduction to Business Analytics
• Putting the Business Back into BI
• BI Manager Toolkit: Bringing Business and IT Together
• Leading Change: The Human Factor
• BI from Both Sides: Aligning Business and IT