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Data-Driven Analytics for Beginners Webinar

This course can help by providing the fundamentals of effective business analytics, where it can be applied, where companies go wrong and what strategies you can use to start achieving greater returns on your organization’s investments.

Course Description/Agenda

Analytics is now the driving force for improved decision making and higher ROI for companies across the globe. Trusting your gut just won’t cut it anymore.

Even if you are using data to make business decisions, are you certain you’re accurately identifying your business needs? Are you mining the proper data and interpreting it correctly? If not, you run the risk of making bad business decisions.

Data-Driven Analytics for Beginners can help by providing the fundamentals of effective business analytics, where it can be applied, where companies go wrong and what strategies you can use to start achieving greater returns on your organization’s investments.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Understand why data literacy can give your company a competitive edge
Accurately identify the business needs of your company
Collect and store the right data for your organizational needs
Explain how data mining is used to predict outcomes
Learn ways you can help overcome resistance to using analytics

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Program time: 3 hours

Session 1: Gaining a Competitive Edge With Business Analytics

List the characteristics of big data
Understand how organizations benefit from big data
Define the role of business analytics in improved decision making
Explain how business analytics can reduce overall level of risk
Describe the analytics life cycle and how it flexes

Session 2: Collecting and Storing the Right Data for Your Organizational Needs

Discuss the importance of aligning business analytics with organizational goals
Describe how to gather real underlying needs from stakeholders
Explain how silos reduce the effectiveness of business analytics
Understand why it’s important to differentiate data quality

Session 3: Using Data Mining to Make Informed Decisions Faster

Describe the basic types of analytics, what they show and when to use them
Define data mining and how it fits into analytics
Explain how data mining is used to predict outcomes
Learn ways you can help overcome resistance to using analytics

More Webinar Information

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Course Summary	This course can help by providing the fundamentals of effective business analytics, where it can be applied, where companies go wrong and what strategies you can use to start achieving greater returns on your organization’s investments.
Delivery Method	Virtual Classroom (Live)
Who Should Attend	Business analysts, business owners, business strategists