MIT Sloan School of Management

Data-Driven Teams: The Art and Science of Winning

MIT Sloan School of Management

Business Analytics

About Programme

Why attend Data-Driven Teams?

Every executive, regardless of their industry, is trying to build a winning team; one that can deliver results in high pressure situations, again and again, despite competition and external market forces. As we endeavor to build such teams, lead them through adversity, and sustain wins over the long term, we can look to superior sports teams for inspiration and answers.

Data-Driven Teams: The Art and Science of Winning

examines how high-performing teams differ from their competitors across four main dimensions: talent, system, leadership, and culture. Drawing on best practices from the sports industry, this new course explores how data can be applied across each of these factors, from identifying talent to measuring your team’s culture.

Through classroom discussions, guest lectures, and project work, you will learn how to:

Identify and evaluate talent

Design a system that maximizes the potential of the talent on your team

Optimize your system to win more consistently

Make winning a more replicable outcome for your teams

Course Topics

Programme Objective

Our in-person courses offer you the opportunity to step away from your office and join your peers on campus and in Kendall Square, known as the most innovative square mile on the planet.

During this course, you will learn:

Why teams win and how high-performing teams differ from their competitors

A data-driven approach to talent identification and evaluation

Techniques to measure your current team’s talent base relative to your business needs

How to design a system that maximizes the potential of the talent on your team

Mechanisms for feedback and iteration to continuously improve your team’s system

The role of the leader in fostering a winning culture over the long-term

Techniques to better define and optimize your team’s culture

Data-informed insights on how to optimize your system to win more consistently

You will also actively engage in action-learning exercises that will help you apply the concepts and tools to your own team.

Programme Audience

Who should attend Data-Driven Teams?
This course is designed for senior leaders in any industry who seek to build, lead, or enhance the performance of teams. If you are interested in learning how data and system design can help your team win consistently over time, then this course is for you.

Programme Benefits

MIT Faculty Insights
Gain insights from world-renowned MIT Faculty
Data Workshop
Includes a hands-on data workshop focused on the application of concepts and tools to each participant’s real-world context and challenges
Sports Analytics
Taps into best practices from the sports industry’s analytics revolution
Certificate
Confers a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management and counts toward the Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership

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