What major does this describe?

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>Company seeks an experienced, talented, and passionate manager for our business intelligence group. The ideal candidate will have a business analyst background and familiarity with data warehouse and business intelligence environments. The manager will be responsible for working with leads of all Companys departments to develop, deliver, and promote projects within the scope of business intelligence. You will need to be able to explore a wide range of business issues, work with leads and developers to create robust and elegant solutions, develop the necessary technical requirements and schedules, and then oversee the execution of the projects.</p>

<p>Responsibilities</p>

<pre><code>* Contribute to the leadership, direction, and growth of the business intelligence team.

  • Establish a vision for the delivery of information and analytics solutions to Company’s management and department leads to allow for data-driven decision making.
  • Drive this vision through the development, deployment, and adoption of business intelligence and reporting tools, as well as the delivery of reporting and analytical solutions to department leads and managers.
  • Develop, manage, and communicate goals, strategies, tactics, project plans, timelines, milestones, and key performance metrics.
  • Implement business solutions that deliver timely, actionable data to management while adhering to scalability, reliability, performance, and budgetary goals.
  • Liaise between the marketing, support, finance, and game development teams to complete projects and ensure a successful working partnership.
  • Work with department leads to develop the optimal role and function of the business intelligence group within their department.
  • Provide motivation and direction to the business intelligence team to ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
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<p>Requirements</p>

<pre><code>* Exceptional ability to lead, communicate, and execute

  • Ability to effectively discuss, translate, and describe highly technical subjects to a non-technical audience and vice versa
  • Experience managing teams, resources and schedules
  • Deep knowledge and creativity in the areas of development process, project management, and performance management
  • Knowledge of data warehousing, mining, reporting, and analytics
  • Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative
  • Passion for innovation and optimization through the use of data, analytics, and visualization
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<p>Sounds like an information systems major to me since it has data warehousing, mining, and business intelligence as keywords. I don’t think any other business major studies this (could be wrong though). I am doing my master’s in IT and will be studying those subjects.</p>

<p>Is this something you would like to do one day? It is definitely not entry level.</p>

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<p>There are Business Intellegence specializations in some MBA programs, and it’s also a masters degree offered at some schools. However, I would think mostly computer types would follow that path as an alternate to MIS.</p>

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<p>Business intelligence teams will generally be highly technical and thus you would probably need to have some sort of BI background to manage them. In regards to majors, CS or MIS would be the most obvious choices.</p>