Business analysis

Cours signalées avec « Business analysis »

Data science is driving a world-wide revolution that touches everything from business automation to social interaction. It’s also one of the fastest growing, most rewarding careers, employing analysts and engineers around the globe. This course provides an accessible, nontechnical overview of the field, covering the vocabulary, skills, jobs, tools, and techniques of data science. Instructor Barton Poulson defines the relationships to other data-saturated fields such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. He reviews the primary practices: gathering and analyzing data, formulating rules for classification and decision-making, and drawing actionable insights. He also discusses ethics and accountability and provides direction to learn more. By the end, you’ll see how data science can help you make better decisions, gain deeper insights, and make your work more effective and efficient.

Topics include:
  • Assess the skills required for a career in data science.
  • Evaluate different sources of data, including metrics and APIs.
  • Explore data through graphs and statistics.
  • Discover how data scientists use programming languages such as R, Python, and SQL.
  • Assess the role of mathematics, such as algebra, in data science.
  • Assess the role of applied statistics, such as confidence intervals, in data science.
  • Assess the role of machine learning, such as artificial neural networks, in data science.
  • Define the components of effective data visualization.

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Catégorie: Data Analytics

The most common questions about using Excel now have timely video answers. This set of quick tips offers helpful, condensed steps you can readily apply to keep on task—whether you're running calculations, setting up a new workbook, applying conditional formatting, fixing a sheet, collaborating with your team, removing sensitive information from a file, getting tables ready for a presentation, and more. Join LinkedIn Learning staff instructor Garrick Chow as he provides on-the-spot solutions for some of the most common questions in Excel. Each video is about one minute long, so you can jump in and get some helpful insights in no time.

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Catégorie: Excel

Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Plus, check out Excel’s newly revamped Accessibility Checker that helps you adjust fonts and colors to be more readable and add alt-text for images, to make your workbooks more accessible to people with disabilities. Other lessons cover how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, print in Excel, use Microsoft Copilot with Excel, and more.

Ce cours n´est disponible qu´en anglais. Si ce n´est pas un problème pour vous, soumettez votre demande.

This course is in French only. If this is not a problem for you, by all means go ahead and apply.

Catégorie: Excel

You don't have to be a designer to create a great visual presentation. Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) to quickly create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations. In this training course, Jess Stratton shows how to get started with PowerPoint templates and themes or build a new presentation from scratch. She explains how to change the slide layout; add and edit text, images, charts, video, and animation; format slides for consistency; and add speaker notes and comments to ensure a smooth delivery. She explores strategies for creating inclusive and accessible presentations for users with disabilities. Plus, Jess highlights how to use Microsoft Copilot with PowerPoint. By the end of the course, you'll know how to use the PowerPoint tools and follow a few simple design rules to draw attention to your message and deliver a presentation that shines.

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This course is in French only. If this is not a problem for you, by all means go ahead and apply.

Catégorie: PowerPoint

Learn how to create, edit, format, and share documents with ease using the Microsoft 365 subscription version of Word. Follow along with instructor David Rivers as he gives you an overview of all the essential features of the powerful and ubiquitous word processing app from Microsoft. This course covers how to edit and format text to create a stylish document with instant purpose. Find out how to leverage templates and built-in tools, create numbered and bulleted lists, work with columns and tables, add images to your documents, collaborate on documents with your team, and share documents via OneDrive and email. Along the way, discover how to use and manage the word proofing tools to check spelling and grammar, and get the most out of the latest features of Word for M365, such as Editor, Copilot, and more.

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This course is in French only. If this is not a problem for you, by all means go ahead and apply.

Catégorie: Word

Interviews can be an effective component in identifying requirements during project planning, and help business analysts and project managers understand the project from the user's point of view. This course covers interview techniques that can help build relationships with project stakeholders and obtain accurate information about project needs. Author Angela Wick helps you identify when to use interviews, who to interview, and how to plan, conduct, and follow up on interviews.

Topics include:
  • Identify why choosing to use interviewing is a top choice for elicitation in business analysis.
  • Recognize the purpose of the interview process.
  • Explore the steps to planning questions prior to an interview.
  • Examine an example of a successful interview.
  • Discover the essentials to laying out expectations.
  • Identify the fundamentals of asking probing questions.
  • Recognize the ideal ways to end an interview.
  • Break down how to analyze and review notes before following up on an elicitation interview.

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Catégorie: Analyse business

When you're trying to grapple with user demands and market changes, it can be difficult to mentally zoom out and assess your organization's operations. Business process modeling helps you see the big picture by allowing you to translate your business processes into easily understood pictures. In this course, instructor Haydn Thomas walks you through the most widely used business process modeling diagrams—context, functional flow, cross-functional flow, and flowchart—and explains the purpose of each one. As Haydn touches on each modeling technique, he shares its unique features, explains how to use that technique to create a diagram, and points out how to avoid common pitfalls. He pulls it all together by comparing process diagrams so you can select the right one for your organization.

Topics include:
  • Using common modeling tools
  • Determining when to use a modeling diagram
  • Avoiding the pitfalls associated with each diagram
  • Creating diagrams
  • Leveraging key stakeholders

Ce cours n´est disponible qu´en anglais. Si ce n´est pas un problème pour vous, soumettez votre demande.

This course is in French only. If this is not a problem for you, by all means go ahead and apply.

Catégorie: Analyse business
Set yourself up for success, learn the key business analysis concepts to thrive in your Business Analyst career. What you'll learn

● Business Analysis basics – learn what a Business Analyst is, what they do, and how they do it
● A breakdown of six project methodologies including traditional Waterfall and Agile frameworks
● Learn how to properly initiate a project by creating a business case that aligns with the business objectives
● Understand the basics of project requirements and six of the popular techniques used to elicit those details from your stakeholders
● Gain an overview of various modeling diagrams to help you recognize and understand project documentation
● Conduct requirement specification - including categorizing, deriving (breaking apart), prioritizing, and validating
● Have the confidence to successfully facilitate requirements approval meetings

Demande de formation
Catégorie: Analyse business

Discover exactly how to become one of these invaluable employees by learning how to “model” – the art of making complex thoughts, ideas, requirements, and processes easier to grasp by putting them into graphical formats that anyone can understand.

This course will teach you the basics of eight of the most popular modeling techniques in the industry.

  • Process Flowcharts
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Use Cases
  • User Stories
  • Stakeholder Maps
  • RACI Matrices
  • Scoring Matrices
  • Organizational Charts
Demande de formation
Catégorie: Analyse business

Leadership—the art of influencing and developing others to achieve their highest potential—is often identified as the most critical role in an organization. But what is effective leadership and how do you cultivate it? In this course, leadership consultant and global workforce expert Dr. Shirley Davis covers the basics of leading yourself and others. Along the way, she identifies the critical competencies and best practices for effectively leading today and in the future. Learn how to lead across differences and cultivate a more inclusive workplace; establish trust; build relationships up, down, and across the organization; lead change through agility and resilience; have difficult conversations; and more.

Topics include:
  • Leading yourself and others
  • Critical leadership competencies
  • Cultivating an inclusive work culture
  • Establishing and maintaining trust
  • Addressing difficult situations
  • Leading change through agility and resilience
  • Communicating with impact
  • Building business acumen

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Communicating effectively isn't an innate talent that some people have and others don't—it's something that anyone can learn and practice. In this course, learn strategies that can help you hone and master your interpersonal communication skills. Join personal branding and career expert Dorie Clark as she shares techniques for getting your message across effectively in the workplace, and explains how to tackle potential communication challenges with your colleagues and supervisor. She also discusses how to grapple with tricky situations, taking you through how to handle interruptions, respond to critical feedback, and communicate across cultures.

Topics include:
  • Determine the most appropriate form of communication in a business situation.
  • Identify instances in which one mode of communication is preferable to another mode.
  • Explain the process involved in interpreting nonverbal cues.
  • Define terminology relating to interpersonal communication.
  • Distinguish between various communication approaches with individuals from other cultures.
  • Describe the factors that underlie interruptions during business meetings.
  • Examine the most appropriate ways to accept criticism.

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Communication is an integral part of strong teamwork. In this course, Duke University professor Dr. Daisy Lovelace walks you through how to cultivate the communication practices of high-performing teams. She highlights the foundations of successful teams, and explains how to craft a team charter to establish norms for how you work together as a cohesive group. Dr. Lovelace also discusses essential elements of team communication—such as establishing trust and holding teammates accountable—and shows how to best communicate with your team in different settings.

Topics include:
  • Differentiate between the roles and responsibilities for team members.
  • Describe the purpose of a RACI matrix.
  • Identify the elements of a team charter.
  • Determine how best to manage conflict within teams.
  • Interpret which approaches should be used to manage virtual teams and cross-cultural team communications.

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Learn how to communicate more effectively. Your communication skills affect your career prospects, the value you bring to your company, and the likelihood of your promotion. This course helps you communicate better in a variety of professional situations, including meetings, email messages, pitches, and presentations. Instructors Tatiana Kolovou and Brenda Bailey-Hughes introduce the four building blocks of communication—people, message, context, and listening—and show how they apply in different circumstances. Through the use of vignettes and applied tools, the course shows how to build this core competency and communicate in a way that effectively and professionally conveys your message.

Topics include:
  • Recall the four pillars of a business scenario.
  • Explore the term 'people' in the context of a communication scenario.
  • Recall how the Think, Feel, Do model applies to a communication scenario.
  • Identify the parts of the message in a communication scenario.
  • Recognize the 'channel' in a communication scenario.
  • Apply the importance of context in a communication event.
  • Review the most important components of listening.

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When it comes to negotiation, shifting your mindset from "a battle to be won" to "a problem-solving conversation" can improve your results dramatically. In this course, leadership coach, negotiation expert, and author Lisa Gates demonstrates the core skills of interest-based negotiation to get win-win outcomes every time. Learn a step-by-step strategy for negotiating everyday workplace issues, from asking for a raise or promotion to pitching ideas and resolving conflict. Lisa covers techniques such as diagnostic questions, anchoring, framing, and labeling, which help you navigate impasse and generate satisfaction on both sides of the bargaining table. Along the way, discover how to prepare for a negotiation, cultivate your influence, get into a zone of agreement even when you have to say "no," and negotiate remotely over phone or email. Lisa also shares her best negotiation tips and tricks and provides worksheets to practice your skills.

Topics include:
  • Identify the different types of negotiation.
  • Distinguish the difference between asking and negotiation.
  • List core negotiation practices.
  • Explain anchoring and framing for mutual benefit.
  • Describe tactical empathy.
  • Explain the principles of influence.
  • Create an influence plan.
  • Analyze conflict styles.
  • Recognize contentious negotiation tactics.

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To define great requirements, it's not enough to simply ask customers and stakeholders what they want. By leveraging requirements elicitation and analysis techniques, business analysts can come up with more innovative solutions. In this course, explore these techniques, and learn why they're important, and how to blend them together and tailor them to your project. Angela Wick provides an overview of the process, and discusses how elicitation and analysis work together. She also covers different ways of gathering requirements—such as brainstorming, observation, and workshops—before moving on to analysis techniques such as context diagrams, user stories, and decision tables. At the conclusion of the course, she explains how to select the right approach for a particular product or project type.

Topics include:
  • Define elicitation and analysis.
  • Identify why elicitation and analysis are important.
  • Recognize the key mindsets to make elicitation and analysis successful.
  • Explore the role of brainstorming in elicitation.
  • Examine the fundamentals for utilizing observation in elicitation.
  • Discover the usefulness of well-run requirement workshops.
  • Identify the elements of a well-done context diagram.
  • Identify the elements of a data flow diagram.

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Customer needs change every day. We need our products to keep up. Take an agile approach to requirements analysis: Learn the mindset and techniques necessary to discover requirements for an agile project and succeed in the business analyst (BA) role. Angela Wick reviews the 12 agile principles from a BA's perspective, introduces backlog management techniques, and discusses techniques such as product decomposition, user stories and story maps, which help BAs deliver products that truly delight customers. Plus, find out what concepts such as "minimum viable product" and "value stream" mean to people in the BA role.

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Catégorie: Agile & Scrum