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Get Ahead in Business Analytics and Analysis

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Overview

Get an overview of the business analytics framework that applies to topics like problem framing, stakeholder analysis, data wrangling, visualizations, descriptive statistics, exploratory analysis, and more. Learn how business analysis really works—and how you can use it to improve your organization.
  • Learn the fundamentals of business analytics.
  • Explore the roles of business analysts and project managers.
  • Develop systems-thinking skills for business analytics.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Introduction to Business Analytics
-Learn the basics of business analytics. Discover tools and techniques for collecting, tracking, and analyzing data to make data-informed decisions for your organization.

Course 2: Business Analysis Foundations
-Learn the foundations of business analysis. Explore the role of the business analyst and the BA process, from conducting a needs assessment to release planning.

Course 3: Learning Digital Business Analysis
-Discover how new digital technologies are changing traditional business models and processes. Learn what these changes mean and how to implement technologies and changes.

Course 4: Business Analysis for Busy Professionals
-Learn how to use business analysis techniques to help you be organized and confident in the business solutions you are generating for strategic decision making

Course 5: Business Analysis for Project Managers
-The course teaches project managers the competencies and skills that a business analyst can provide to a project team and project activities.

Course 6: Business Analyst and Project Manager Collaboration
-Business analysts and project managers need to work together to get successful results. Learn collaboration techniques for each stage of the project management process.

Course 7: Business Analysis Foundations: Competencies
-Get up to speed with the diverse set of competencies that business analysts need in order to be successful in their role.

Course 8: Business Analysis Foundations: Business Process Modeling
-Explore the benefits of using business process modeling to make sense of your company's business activities, including commonly used process modeling diagrams and how to use them.

Course 9: Business Analysis Foundations: Strategy Analysis
-Synthesize the set of steps and techniques for performing strategy analysis in your work environment.

Course 10: Business Analysis: Essential Tools and Techniques
-Learn how to set up and use the technology to enable your business analysis work to be successful.

Course 11: Business Analytics Foundations: Descriptive, Exploratory, and Explanatory Analytics
-Learn about the three types of data analytics used to analyze past business performance: descriptive, exploratory, and explanatory analytics.

Course 12: Business Analytics Foundations: Predictive, Prescriptive, and Experimental Analytics
-Learn about the stages in business analytics used to predict future events and improve decision-making: predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, and experimental analytics.

Course 13: Predictive Analytics Essential Training: Estimating and Ensuring ROI
-Turn predictive analytics into a profit center at your organization. Learn how to measure the return on investment (ROI) and prove the long-term value of your projects.

Course 14: Business Analytics: Forecasting with Exponential Smoothing
-Get an introduction to simple exponential smoothing, including how to assemble the forecast equation and optimize forecasts.

Course 15: Business Analytics: Forecasting with Seasonal Baseline Smoothing
-Learn how to perform seasonal baseline smoothing with R and Excel and incorporate seasonal variation for more accurate and insightful forecasts.

Course 16: Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
-Explore how to leverage elicitation and analysis techniques to define great requirements. Learn why these techniques are important and how to tailor them to your project.

Course 17: Requirements Elicitation for Business Analysts: Interviews
-Learn when and how to conduct interviews with users and project stakeholders to identify project requirements.

Course 18: Business Analytics: Marketing Data
-Get more value from your organization's sales data. Discover how to use business analytics tools and techniques to create actionable insights, generate more leads, and close more deals.

Course 19: Business Analytics: Sales Data
-Get more value from your organization's sales data. Discover how to use business analytics tools and techniques to create actionable insights, generate more leads, and close more deals.

Courses

Taught by

John David Ariansen, MBA, Greta Blash, PgMP, PMP, RMP, CBAP, PBA, ACP, CAPM, Angela Wick, Christina Charenkova, Haydn Thomas, Laura Paton MBA, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Jamie Champagne, Kumaran Ponnambalam, Keith McCormick and Conrad Carlberg

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