Business Performance Review
A management review of a sample company's performance.
- KPIs and SQL analysis
- Power BI dashboard
- Leadership presentation
Business Analytics · Beginner
Business Analytics
Use data to understand business performance and recommend decisions.
- Excel
- SQL
- Power BI
- Business metrics
- Requirements
- Data storytelling
About this course
Use data to understand business performance and recommend decisions. This course combines analytics tools with business thinking, requirements and stakeholder communication.
Who this is for
- Graduates from any background, including commerce and management
- Finance, sales, marketing and operations professionals
- Aspiring business analysts
What you will be able to do
- Turn business problems into clear analytical questions
- Analyse data with Excel and SQL
- Build Power BI dashboards for decision makers
- Write requirements and user stories
- Present recommendations with confidence
Prerequisites: Any graduate background.
8-week curriculum
- 8
- Learning units
- 40
- Topics covered
- 2
- Projects
- 6
- Tools
Week 1
Business Analytics Foundations
- The business analyst role
- Business models and KPIs
- Framing problems
- Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics
- Finance, sales and marketing metrics
Assignment
Define KPIs for a sample business.
Week 2
Excel for Business Analysis
- PivotTables and Power Query
- XLOOKUP and scenario analysis
- Forecasting basics
- Financial analysis
- Dashboards in Excel
Assignment
Build a profit analysis with scenarios.
Week 3
SQL for Business Questions
- Filtering and aggregation
- Joins
- Window functions
- Customer and revenue analysis
- Data quality checks
Assignment
Answer business questions from a sales database.
Week 4
Power BI for Decision Makers
- Data modelling
- DAX measures
- Dashboard design
- Drill-through and filters
- Publishing
Assignment
Build a management performance dashboard.
Week 5
Requirements and Process Analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- BRD, FRD and user stories
- Process mapping with BPMN
- Gap analysis
- Agile and Jira for analysts
Assignment
Write requirements for a process improvement.
Week 6
Statistics and Experimentation
- Descriptive statistics
- Correlation and regression basics
- A/B testing
- Customer segmentation
- Forecasting with Excel and Python basics
Assignment
Analyse an experiment and make a recommendation.
Week 7
AI and Data Storytelling
- Copilot and ChatGPT for analysts
- Checking AI output
- Structuring recommendations
- Presenting to leadership
- Data privacy basics
Assignment
Present a recommendation using a clear story.
Week 8
Capstone and Interview Preparation
- Business case capstone
- Case interview practice
- SQL and Excel practice
- Portfolio
- Resume review
Assignment
Present your case and complete a mock interview.
Keep the full curriculum with you
Verify your email and download this course as a PDF.
Projects you will build
Process Improvement Case
Find and document an improvement to a business process.
- Process maps
- Business requirements and user stories
- Cost and benefit estimate
These are training projects. Please describe them honestly as training work on your resume and in interviews.
Tools and technologies
- Excel
- SQL
- Power BI
- Jira
- BPMN
- Copilot
Career support
- Resume tailored to your target role
- LinkedIn, Naukri and Indeed profile guidance
- Technical and HR mock interviews, with feedback
- Help explaining your projects clearly
MYP does not guarantee a job or interviews.
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