Introduction to Business Analytics and Information Economics Specialization
Introduction to Business Analytics and Information Economics Specialization
Analytic opportunities and the value of data. Gain the ability to process data to make predictions about the behavior of individuals or markets.
Instructor: Douglas B. Laney
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What you'll learn
Conceive new ways to leverage analytics to business problems. Know what makes an analytics project successful. Be aware of key analytics trends.
Understand and apply methods for conceiving and generating broad-based and transformative business benefits from available information assets.
Lay out new and emerging organizational roles for treating information as an actual business asset.
Understand business models from a data perspective and apply a variety of techniques for identifying new data-driven value streams for a business.
Skills you'll gain
- Advanced Analytics
- Analytical Skills
- Analytics
- Asset Management
- Big Data
- Business Analysis
- Business Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Business Modeling
- Data Analysis
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Data Literacy
- Data Quality
- Data Strategy
- Digital Assets
- Feasibility Studies
- Information Management
- Intellectual Property
- Network Model
- Trend Analysis
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Courses on Coursera do not carry University of Illinois credit on their own. Each iDegree course has an enhanced for-credit component. You can earn academic credit if you combine an open online course with the enhanced for-credit component offered on the University of Illinois platform. To learn more visit https://giesbusiness.illinois.edu/graduate-hub/online. Some universities may choose to accept Specialization Certificates for credit. Check with your institution to learn more.
Time to completion can vary widely based on your schedule, most learners are able to complete the Specialization in 3-6 months.
No background knowledge is necessary for this Specialization.
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