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Transforming Your Company’s Data Analytics: Championing the Digital Enterprise

Making Evidence-Based Strategic Decisions

Drive alignment among managers, employees and the organizational goals through data analytics and data products. This course on digital transformation will show you how to turn your organization into a decision-making factory.

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What You Will Learn

  • What makes a good business decision - foresight and scenario planning
  • Why and how are digital enterprises decision factories?
  • Training organizational members to effectively use the data products in their business decisions
  • Using low-code/no-code tools in building data analytics products
  • Using artificial intelligence tools in building data analytics projects

About This Course

What makes a good business decision?

How can we combine effective data analytics and feed robust foresight and scenario planning processes?

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At A Glance

Expert Instruction
Build Skills

Self-Paced
‍Progress at your own speed

4 Weeks
2-3 hours per week

Free or $199.00
For the full program experience
Discounted to $179.10 when you purchase the full Transforming Your Company’s Data Analytics: Championing the Digital Enterprise Professional Certificate Program.

10 Professional Development Units (PDUs)
Earn PDUs toward your Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Mangement Professional (PMP) certification

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Your Instructor

Bill Brantley

My goal in teaching is not only to convey a body of knowledge but also help the student incorporate that knowledge into their careers and life. Teaching is not just about transmitting knowledge but also developing the student’s abilities as a critical thinker and an independent scholar.

What Our Students Are Saying

This is a great course to learn the technical aspects of Agile project management and John Johnson is a coherent and concise lecturer delivering high quality lessons. I took the verified track as I will be handling more projects in my role as a university learning developer.
Neill Wylie
I enjoyed the course and learned a lot. The only thing that I might suggest is highlighting new terminology in a separate "dictionary" as some terms were new or maybe industry-specific and I sometimes lost my concentration when trying to figure them out. I liked that the class used real-world examples and suggested further reading and videos.
Serena Bonini
This course will definitely give you a real-world approach on using Agile and all the kinds alike - from the comparison between Traditional, Agile, and Lean, the overview of each method. This course also dives into the framework Agile uses, such as Scrum, DAD, LeSS, and all the pros and cons each of them has. Simply said, highly recommend!
Kevin Samuel
The "paid" track has additional information and I like the PPT slides, bonus! This is helpful if you need to go back and review information later, maybe referencing another course or work issue. Whatever your role, I think this is really helpful for anyone in software! I think the final is great because you do go back and look things up that you may have forgotten early on in the first week. You can save your answers and go back. I needed that flexibility. I like the casual aspect of this course.
Kimberly Eck
The course teacher/instructor in the videos was delivering the information in an inspiring way. The slides and the summary tabs were very helpful. The course is a good introduction to agile on a high level. Basic terms, roles, and frameworks are explained and compared. The test questions in the final exam supported the learning progress, as many of them were presented in a form where the student has to apply the knowledge, not only repeat what he/she has learned/heard.
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Syllabus

Week 1

Week One - Decision Factories

  • Module One - Your Organization as a Decision Factory
  • Module Two - What Kind of Decisions Do Your Customers Make?
  • Module Three - What Kind of Decisions Do Your Employees Make?
  • Module Four - What Kind of Decisions Do Your Leaders Make?
  • Module Five - Porter's Five Forces Model and Your Decision Factory

Week 2

Week Two - Data-Enabled Decision Making

  • Module One - What is Good Decision Making?
  • Module Two - Using Data in Making Decisions
  • Module Three - What is Good Data?
  • Module Four - Decision Making with Incomplete and Ambiguous Data
  • Module Five - Learning from Experience

Week 3

Week Three - Low-Code/No-Code Tools for Data Analytics Products

  • Module One - The Low-Code/No-Code Revolution
  • Module Two - Survey of Low-Code/No-Code Tools
  • Module Three - Practicum: Building a Low-Code/No-Code Application (Part One)
  • Module Four - Practicum: Building a Low-Code/No-Code Application (Part Two)
  • Module Five - Building the Data Infrastructure for Low-Code/No-Code Applications

Week 4

Week Four - Artificial Intelligence in Data Analytics

  • Module One - How is A.I. used in Data Analytics
  • Module Two - Big Data and Deep Learning
  • Module Three - Robotic Process Automation
  • Module Four - Data Analytics Software: R
  • Module Five - Data Analytics Software: Microsoft Power Platform

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Transforming Your Company’s Data Analytics: Championing the Digital Enterprise

Champion your company’s transformation to a digital enterprise with data analytics and technologies that deliver business agility.

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