The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and IBM recently announced that specialization tracks on Business Analytics for Information Technology Education (ITE) and the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) Programs are ready for implementation this coming school year 2013-14.
The CHED Memorandum Orders were passed and co-developed in collaboration with IBM, taking into consideration the paradigm shift and growing demands of the local and international business landscapes, and are geared towards helping transform the Philippines to become more globally competitive across all industries.
The growing demand for leaders to make better and faster business decisions makes business analytics and optimization a huge global market opportunity, estimated at about US$160 billion by 2015.