American Airlines (AAL), one of the world’s largest airline group and a SP500 company, is in trouble. With the growth rate of its stock price ranked at the bottom of all major US airlines, AAL needs to find out its key problems, the root causes, and how to turn the company and its stock price around.

Business Intelligence and Competitive Analysis

Business Intelligence and Competitive Analysis
This course is part of Supply Chain Analytics Specialization

Instructor: Yao Zhao
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What you'll learn
Industry analysis: industry trend, risk, and competition intensity, value chain analysis.
Competition positioning: where does the company stand in the competitive landscape? Abnormalities and alarms.
Enterprise diagnosis: strengths and weaknesses, performance drivers and levers, breakdown analysis to identify the problems and causes.
Skills you'll gain
- Strategic Thinking
- Business Intelligence
- Business Analysis
- Management Consulting
- Performance Analysis
- Market Analysis
- Financial Analysis
- Benchmarking
- Business Analytics
- Competitive Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Business Strategy
- Root Cause Analysis
- Risk Analysis
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Data Storytelling
- Competitive Intelligence
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Reviewed on Sep 21, 2020
It was an excellent Course. We all can have the data and different ratios from System and logs. But This course is a guideline on how to use it. Which ratios are more important to focus on.
Reviewed on Oct 2, 2025
Very eye-opening to a lot of industries, but it needs more African and Nigerian inputs
Reviewed on May 10, 2021
Decent course for those who wanted to learn the competitive analysis between companies and industries across various countries.
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