Business Analytics Executive Overview Coursera

Overview

Businesses run on data, and data offers little value without analytics. The ability to process data to make predictions about the behavior of individuals or markets, to diagnose systems or situations, or to prescribe actions for people or processes drives business today. Increasingly many businesses are striving to become “data-driven”, proactively relying more on cold hard information and sophisticated algorithms than upon the gut instinct or slow reactions of humans. 

Together, the class will explore dozens of real-world analytics problems and solutions across most major industries and business functions. 

The Business Analytics Executive Overview course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Illinois will also touch on analytic technologies, architectures, and roles from business intelligence to data science, and from data warehouses to data lakes. And the course will wrap up with a discussion of analytics trends and futures.

What you'll learn

• Understand key analytics concepts, types of technologies, and related roles.

• Identify key components of real-world analytics solutions in various industries and business functions. 

• Conceive new ways to leverage or adapt existing analytics methods to business problems.

• Know what makes an analytics project successful, and be aware of key analytics trends.

Skills you'll gain

• Business Analysis

• Data Analysis

• Data Management

• Data Structures

• Leadership and Management

• Strategy