What Jacob brings to the table
Jacob is characterized by experienced and courageous leadership of organizational change.
Jacob's ambition is to strengthen the strategic decision-making at SDU through innovative management information based on advanced analytics.
Jacob has been working with data analysis since 1997 in the fields of:
- Research Analysis. The Danish Institute for Studies in Research and Research Policy 1997-2001, including the role as EuroStat National Expert in R&D
- Analyzes in the field of education: SDU 2001-2013, including the position as Head of Student Services Analysis unit 2009-2013 with responsibility for business analytics on students and study programs, secretariat of accreditation and quality of education, and first level user support for the study administration system STADS
- Strategic management information at SDU since 2014
- Director of SDU Analytics
- Promotion of the synergy between SDU strategy and new analytic solutions
- Increase the organization's data literacy - widely across the university
- Cultivate employee-driven innovation and process optimization
- UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Data Science for Leaders Program, on Campus 2023
- Northwestern University: Business Analytics for Decision Makers, On Campus Certification 2019
- UC Berkeley, School of Information: Data Science for Executives, Online Certification 2019
- Cornell University, SC Johnson College of Business: Data Analyst 360, Online Certification 2018
- University of Southern Denmark: Professional Master in Evaluation, On campus 2006-2008
- Aarhus University: Political Science, 1991-1997
- International speaker in the field of how to support data-driven decision making
- Lecturer at Kommunernes Landsforening (KL): How to develop and deploy analytics as decision intelligence
- Part-time lecturer at Aarhus BSS (AU): Datadriven business analytics
- Acknowledged sparring partner regarding evaluation design and analysis methods
- Member of the AEU Planning group for the Danish universities' BI Network
- Mentor at Ballisager Program for future graduates in business intelligence
