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Impact of Business Analytics for Smart Education System and Management Functions

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Business analytics is the advanced technology-driven system with combined efforts of performing various marketing, finance, human resource management, production and operations management functions and maintaining records, classifying, analyzing the data, and preparing report for managerial decision-making. Smart education system is indicated by the education that builds character and ensures the independent working ability. This calls for creating a learning environment wherein all stakeholders are encouraged to improve their knowledge and ability. Sustainable development is one that can avoid a destructive force so that human society can continue its long journey toward perfection. Quality of higher education leads to the overall development of a nation and innovative entrepreneurship ensures the extra value to achieve the goals in a systematic manner. Effective higher education system in India has shown a massive growth which is producing skilled individuals for the growth of Indian Economy. The research methodology consisted of identification of key categories of roles of Business Analytics and subsequently the constituent roles under each category through three iterations Delphi Technique, wherein the Delphi panel consisted 10 experts having diverse background. Taking these inputs and purposeful contemplation on the part of the researcher, the constructs necessary for the questionnaire were formulated. The respondents were asked to rate the level of importance of each question on five-point Likert scales. The study helped to identify the recent trends, requirements, and challenges faced by professionals, especially in Indian Education Institutions when interacting with the roles of Business Analytics in Quality Education and attracting wider stakeholder groups. Majority of the respondents accredited high importance toward role of Business Analytics in Effective Higher Education. A majority of the respondents agreed that the effective higher education is well suited and reflect any organizational performance with benchmark.

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Podder, S.K., Samanta, D., Gurunath, R. (2020). Impact of Business Analytics for Smart Education System and Management Functions. In: Sharma, H., Govindan, K., Poonia, R., Kumar, S., El-Medany, W. (eds) Advances in Computing and Intelligent Systems. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0222-4_45

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