Course Objectives

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Target Audience

Analysts, managers and professionals who are looking to build their analytical skills as well as those who are interested in improving their decision making capabilities based on analytical evidence.

• Analytical thinking skills
  • Understanding how we think and reason
  • Adding value to your organization
  • Balancing multiple conditions impacting a business situation
  • Moving from pieces to the big picture
  • Generating creative solutions
• Structuring problems
  • The importance of structuring
  • Dividing issues into manageable sections
  • The use of logic trees in problem solving
  • Foundations of conditional logic
  • Foundations of disjunctive logic
  • Using conditional logic versus disjunctive logic
  • Challenges in effectively using different kinds of logic
• Collecting data
  • Getting the right data
  • Types of research
  • Primary research development
  • Secondary research development
  • Conducting informational interviews
  • Asking 'so what?'
  • Summary versus synthesis
  • Assessing the value of information
  • Focusing on facts
  • Eliminating extraneous information
• Analyzing and transforming data
  • Structuring data
  • Transforming data
  • The power of visual representation
  • Guidelines for business graphs
  • Using Excel for data analysis
  • The power of pivot tables
  • Using pivot tables for analysis
  • Seeking patterns
  • Studying trends
  • Questioning results
  • Developing possible solutions
• Communicating and convincing
  • Turning data into findings
  • Building effective arguments
  • Communicating findings by telling a story
  • Story telling elements
    • The current situation
    • Difficulties in making the situation better
    • Possible paths to resolution
  • Presenting to senior management

This course hasn't been scheduled yet, however you can request for In-House training