Recommendation Systems & Personalization
Build recommenders that lift revenue and engagement.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
A vendor promised that your recommendation systems programme would transform the institution in ninety days. Eighteen months later, the invoices keep arriving and the transformation is still a slide. Executives who cannot arbitrate between competing analytical claims end up outsourcing judgement to whoever presented last. This programme converts scattered recommendation systems pilots into a sequenced, governed portfolio — evidence before enthusiasm, value before volume.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Price the build, buy and partner options for recommendation systems capability with real economics.
- Distinguish recommendation systems automation opportunities from decisions where human judgement remains strategically important.
- Commission recommendation systems work and interrogate its outputs with an operator’s confidence.
- Defend a recommendation systems investment case before a board that has been disappointed before.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
Six Weeks to Prove Recommendation Systems
A newly appointed chief data officer at a pan-African retail bank inherits a recommendation systems mandate, one budget cycle to show value, and three functions that each claim ownership of the same dataset. The CEO wants a decision improved this quarter — not a strategy deck.
Your decision: Choose the single recommendation systems initiative worth proving in six weeks, name what gets stopped to fund it, and decide who owns the result.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a regional telecommunications group suspects its recommendation systems spending is aimed at the wrong customers — and the intuition cannot yet be defended in the boardroom.
Dataset: Synthetic recommendation systems panel for a regional telecommunications group: the tables, formats and quality gaps your team would find on day one.
Your task: Structure the data, segment and score it, and translate the model into one operating decision about where the money should go.
A recommendation systems decision memo backed by an analysis you built and can defend.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build a twelve-month analytical and AI roadmap for your organisation: the value case, the data foundations, the governance, and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Executive Capability Model™
- • Value-versus-feasibility portfolio analysis
- • CRISP-DM analytical lifecycle
- • Model risk management principles (SR 11-7 adapted)
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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