Chapter 10: Why we need Analytics Grand Rounds

The number of analytics academic programs and the use of analytics by industry have been rapidly growing over the past two decades. Industry is facing a significant amount of analytics lost opportunities due to the insufficient emphasis on developing and improving problem-solving skills in the education of analytics professionals. In this paper, we propose changes to analytics academic programs that will help improve students’ problem-solving skills. The focus of these changes will be on implementing relevant problem-solving/ diagnosis concepts taught to physicians in their training, including the use of analytics heuristics for problem solving and an analytics grand rounds course.