Course Methodology
This course stresses the factors that impact the performance of business decision makers and the data management and analysis methods that have value to them.  This course includes lectures, presentations, and demonstrations that emphasize discussion and illustration of methods, as well as hands-on, practical exercises that provide both a sound base of learning and an opportunity to test and develop skill.

Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Use business analytics to formulate and solve business problems and to support managerial decision making.
• Become familiar with the processes needed to develop, report, and analyze business data.
• Learn how to use and apply Excel and Excel add-ins to solve business problems

Target Audience
Professionals seeking advancement in their Business Analysis career, New Project Managers, Experienced Project Managers who want to develop their skills in business analysis.

Target Competencies

• Should be resourceful
• Able to grow skills easily
• Should be able to create alignment and ownership around solutions
• Have clarity
• Have strong dash of project management 

Course Outline

Visualization/Data Issues

• Organization/sources of data
• Importance of data quality
• Dealing with missing or incomplete data
• Data Classification

Data Mining 

• Introduction to Data Mining
• Data Mining Process
• Data mining tools
• Market Basket Analysis

Decision Modeling

• Optimization
• Decision Making under Uncertainty

Customize Your Training
This training solution and other training topics from Nosak Group are currently available as a residential/in-house option. It can be customized for your team/organisation at your preferred location.