Survey Design & Analytics
Design rigorous surveys, sample correctly, and analyze results that stand up to scrutiny.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
A vendor promised that your survey design programme would transform the institution in ninety days. Eighteen months later, the invoices keep arriving and the transformation is still a slide. Meanwhile, regulators are moving from encouragement to scrutiny — ungoverned survey design is becoming a supervisory finding, not a technicality. This programme converts scattered survey design 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
- Evaluate where survey design creates economic value across the organisation — and where it reliably does not.
- Govern survey design models and data with controls that satisfy both boards and regulators.
- Price the build, buy and partner options for survey design capability with real economics.
- Distinguish survey design automation opportunities from decisions where human judgement remains strategically important.
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™
The Survey Design Model Nobody Can Explain
A a pan-African retail bank deployed a survey design model into daily operations. It performs — until a customer dispute, a journalist and the regulator arrive in the same week, and no one can reconstruct why the model decided what it decided.
Your decision: Pause the model pending an explainability rebuild, defend it as deployed, or restrict it to advisory use — each response signals something different to the regulator, the market and your own staff.
IPAT Data Lab™
Three functions at a fast-scaling e-commerce platform report three different truths about the same survey design question.
Dataset: Synthetic multi-source survey design dataset — finance, operations and customer tables that disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the single defensible view, and decide which dashboard the executive committee keeps.
A reconciled survey design decision view and the data architecture behind it.
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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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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