Course Highlights

• Helps participants use data to assess their team’s current strengths and weaknesses, identify gaps that need to be filled, and design a system that puts their team in a position to succeed
• Includes a hands-on data workshop focused on the application of concepts and tools to each participant’s real-world context and challenges
• Taps into best practices from the sports industry’s analytics revolution
• Confers a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management

Course Details

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

Upon successful completion of your course, you will earn a certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This course may also count toward MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements.

Course Experience

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Applying to the Course

We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity at which point, we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

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We are retiring Analytics Management: Business Lessons from the Sports Data Revolution. You may be interested in this new course that will focus on how to create winning teams through analytics.