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Become a Business Operations Associate

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Overview

Prepare for a new career with $100 off Coursera Plus
Gear up for jobs in high-demand fields: data analytics, digital marketing, and more.
Business operations associates work within organizations to gather data and insights and evaluate internal business plans. Build the quantitative and analytical skills needed to combine strategic planning, financial analysis, and decision-making with deep data analytics and insights.
  • Learn the core concepts for business operations associates.
  • Understand your organization's competitive strategy.
  • Develop critical quantitative and analytical skills.

Syllabus

  • Course 1: Understanding Business
    • Learn the basic concepts underpinning all businesses, small to large, including marketing, supply chains, accounting, and HR.
  • Course 2: Developing a Competitive Strategy
    • Global strategy expert and author Anil Gupta provides a primer on competitive strategy: being faster, better, and cheaper than the competitors in your market.
  • Course 3: Strategic Planning Foundations
    • Learn how to conduct an effective strategic planning process that results in a clear, compelling strategic plan for your organization.
  • Course 4: Business Analysis Foundations
    • Learn the foundations of business analysis. Explore the role of the business analyst and the BA process, from conducting a needs assessment to release planning.
  • Course 5: Problem Solving Techniques
    • Learn techniques for identifying the root cause of a problem, generating options, and selecting the best solution.
  • Course 6: Decision-Making Strategies
    • Learn how to make better business decisions faster, incur less risk, and gain support for your decisions.
  • Course 7: Financial Forecasting with Big Data
    • Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.
  • Course 8: Creating and Giving Business Presentations
    • Learn the fundamentals of preparing for and delivering a compelling business presentation.
  • Course 9: Leadership Foundations
    • Learn what it takes to lead with confidence, integrity, and agility. Explore the critical skills and competencies that drive value in organizations and inspire top performance.
  • Course 10: Advanced SQL for Data Scientists
    • Learn advanced techniques for analyzing large data sets with SQL. Find out how to build sophisticated data models, optimize queries, extend SQL with user-defined functions, and more.
  • Course 11: Excel 2007: Financial Analysis
    • Provides a basic fluency in corporate finance, enabling users to grasp the meaning behind the calculations.
  • Course 12: Tableau 10 for Data Scientists (2017)
    • Tableau was made for data science. Learn how to format and filter messy data, use Tableau for data analysis, and visualize data with maps and dashboards.

Taught by

Eddie Davila, Anil K. Gupta, Mike Figliuolo, Greta Blash, PgMP, PMP, PBA, BAPO, ACP, DASSM, CDAI, Chris Croft, Mike Figliuolo, Michael M., Tatiana Kolovou, Dr. Shirley Davis, Dan Sullivan, Curtis Frye and Matt Francis

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