Francis Tay
Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University Centre for Professional and Continuing Education
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Mr. Francis Tay Lecturer, NTU WKWSCI Founder & CEO, NextGen Ventures Pte Ltd Director, Singapura Management Pte Ltd
Francis is currently a lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Wee Kim Wee School for Communications and Information (WKWSCI), teaching Business Intelligence and Information Entrepreneurship in the Master of Knowledge Management course. His courses are also taken up by students reading for their Master of Information Systems, Master of Information Studies and Master of Mass Communications. He has also taught Organizational Leadership and Information Sources and Services in the Master of Information Studies course. He has been teaching at NTU for more than 10 years.
Francis has authored three books “Latent Factors”, “Turning Good Ideas into Great Businesses” and “Picking Winners”. The first two books focus on business advantages and financial models and the third book is on market intelligence and building up market and sector models for benchmarking analysis. His market intelligence and benchmarking portal – www.profitstrail.com - was developed as a real-time update for “Picking Winners”.
He is concurrently a Director at Singapura Management Pte Ltd, a corporate services company providing bookkeeping, tax and other services to local and foreign SMEs. He founded NextGen Ventures Pte Ltd, an equity investment company that focuses on technology and Internet-related businesses. He has held senior positions in government and government-linked organizations. Francis obtained his Honours degree from NUS, majoring in Economics and Computer Science & Applications, and his Master of Science in Management (Sloan Fellowship) from the London Business School in the UK. Francis served 5 years on the National Youth Council’s Singapore Youth Awards (SYA) Entrepreneurship committee and has provided mentorship to companies and others under various business programmes at universities and start-up accelerators.
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Data Analysis and Analytics - Practical Application
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Data Analysis and Forecasting - Practical Application
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Data Management, Governance and Compliance
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Intelligent Automation
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Data and Information Sources in Analytics
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Leveraging Data Analytics for Sales & Marketing
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(SCTP) Data and Information Analysis Literacy Upgrading Programme (dial-up)
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Market Sensing and Non-Technical Risk (NTR) Monitoring and Management for Managers in the Services Sectors
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