A Practical Guide through Case Studies
What you'll learn
- Acquire Skills and Knowledge to assess business status or situations; analyze and diagnose business problems; and evaluate business opportunities and options.
- Master 4 major Business Analysis Frameworks for : Problem Analysis, Performance Review, Strategy Audit and Evaluation of Opportunities & Options.
- Get to practice great Business Analysis hands-on, through 3 real life business cases and with14 cutting edge Tools & Techniques.
- Learn how to decide on the right data, sources of the data and relevant tools and techniques for analyzing different business situations.
Requirements
- No prior requirement. Require only a strong commitment to learn practical aspects of Business Analysis. Recommend viewing on a laptop, desktop or tablet, so that fine details are not missed visually.
- Also recommend that you go through the lectures in serial sequence, as the course depends on cases and each prior part has to be finished, before moving on to the next - so as not to miss the thread of continuity.
Description
The Maze ... of Business AnalysisThe landscape of Business Analysis does look daunting and confusing to most people, with all the jargon, mass of data, views and opinions, concepts, tools & techniques, factors & parameters etc. This course will declutter and demystify this maze and simplify the business analysis process. It will show you what data, tools or techniques are relevant in different situations of business analysis and how to use and apply them.
Unique Teaching Method ... Hands on
The course will achieve this by making you learn how to do great business analysis - through 3 real life business Cases. And you will be practicing this yourself, through 4 Practice Assignments, as you walk through each case, along with the instructor. And a detailed analysis of each case is provided, explaining the data, tools & techniques used and the methodology and logic of the analysis. And you can self-assess your progress in understanding the course through 4 Quiz. Revise with 32 downloadable documents (PDF & Excel).
Skills acquired
After successfully completing this course, you would have acquired:
- Ability to categorize a given business scenario - Status Assessment, Problem Analysis & Solution, Evaluation of Options - and select the most appropriate data, sources, tools and techniques for each.
- Mastery of
- 4 major frameworks: Problem Analysis, Performance Review, Strategy Audit and Evaluation of Business Opportunities & Options, and
- 14 cutting Edge Tools & Techniques of Business Analysis - Facility to creatively analyze data pertaining to Operations, Markets, Financials etc. , reach logical conclusions and present them visually
- Creating a roadmap of actions that can bring about major improvements in your job, function, company or business.
It is not a piece of software, certification or checklist, which may have only very limited usefulness or applicability to a variety of business situations.
What IT IS
- A Comprehensive, step-by-step Approach to doing great Business Analysis in a variety of scenarios, demonstrated through 3 real life business case studies.
- Fundamental insights into the nature of business issues
- Knowledge of common pitfalls of Business Analysis and and mental cobwebs in our thinking patterns and how to avoid them
- 12 major concepts illustrated through the case analyses
- 47 Lectures arranged in 8 Sections
- 370 minutes of absorbing videos
- 3 Case Studies - each with Narration and Analysis
- 4 Practice Assignments
- 4 Self-assessment Quiz
- 32 downloadable documents
Apart from the Preview Video, the following Lectures are FREE to view:
- Course Overview : Section 1, Lecture 1
- Introduction to Cases : Section 3, Lecture 6
Who this course is for:
- Practicing Managers (in any function), People aspiring for a career in Business Management, Business & Startup owners, Students of Business Schools, Business Analysts (current & prospective), Management Consultants (current & aspiring).
