Certificate in Essential Predictive Analytics

Certificate in Essential Predictive Analytics

Key Analytics for Business Decisions

Predictive analytics is a method of projecting past performance, assessing likelihood of some action in the future to assess various business alternatives. Today predictive analytics includes the methods that relate variables to a particular success initiative such as understanding what data drives percentages of sales, what factors predict success or failure of a credit risk and to what degree can a business meet their goals by looking at impact factors.

Whether the purpose is operational performance, enterprise performance, financial analysis, competitive or market analysis, strategic direction setting or data for outside decision making impacts the success of a prediction. Understanding the basis and impact of decisions is crucial to improving enterprise performance

This hands-on course is intended for people who want to put the ideas and concepts of predictive data analysis and interpretation into effective use in their enterprise. Concepts such as measures development, statistical interpretations and factors of prediction or problem solving are discussed along with newer techniques such as sensitivity analysis and text mining – all through practical case studies and exercises.

Prerequisites:

• Attendee should have some basic working knowledge of process mapping
• A laptop is required and must allow installation of software.

Certification Requirements

All course attendees must meet minimum testing standards including in-class exercises to receive certification (75% is the passing grade).

By attending this highly beneficial course, delegates will learn how to:

• Apply statistical techniques in a constructive problem solving manner to achieve predictive understanding
• Understand the difference between problems and the prediction
• Illustrate the relationship between decisions, data and prediction
• Interpret how business performance and prediction are related through measures
• Design methods that effectively utilize prediction
• Present predictive data for clear understanding of options
• Define how uncertainty and risk can be incorporated into predictive decisions
• Interpret social media data to understand market potential
• Explain the risk versus yield option for credit policy

Who should attend

• Business process teams
• Business planners
• Process Analysts
• Process Managers
• Process Professionals
• IT Specialists
• Business Analysts and IT and Business Architects

Meet your expert course trainer: Frank Kowalkowski

Frank Kowalkowski is President of Knowledge Consultants, Inc., a firm focusing on business performance, business/IT architecture and business analytical techniques. He has over 30 years of management and consulting experience in a wide variety of industries. He has been involved with many projects including business analysis, process management, business performance measurement, business and competitive intelligence and knowledge management.

In addition to being a keynote speaker at international conferences as well as a conference chair, he has written numerous papers and spoken at conferences on a variety of subjects. He is the author of a 1996 book on Enterprise Analysis (Prentice – Hall, ISBN 0-13-282-3365) and numerous papers.

Frank is currently working on a both a BPM book for managers and a new edition of the enterprise analysis book. He conducts frequent seminars nationally and internationally on a variety of business management and information technology topics. He is co author of a quarterly column on architecture for the website TDAN (www.tdan.com).

KCI and the FEAC Institute

KCI (Knowledge Consultants Inc) is pleased to offer its certification program through the FEAC Institute expanded certification program. FEAC has a long history of providing independent certification oversight. Their university relationships with California State University and National University provide certified professionals with additional educational opportunities.

Since opening in 2002, FEAC™ their worldwide program has graduated over 1,400 Certified Enterprise Architects (CEAs) and trained over 1,500 in several other architecture disciplines. FEAC programs feature the best thought leaders and instructors in the field of enterprise architecture, including John Zachman, the creator of the Zachman Framework™, considered the father of Enterprise Architecture and author of numerous EA publications. Now, FEAC has expanded its certification to include related business disciplines that expand and enable the architecture perspective.

Certification Value

Value to the professional

• It is a form of personal recognition and achievement
• Industry surveys suggest that certified employees enjoy higher salaries
• Provides for a degree of specialization that can increase marketability
• Transfers useful knowledge in a short time

Value to the employer

• Provides an assurance of a level of competence
• Trains in specific skills that are applicable to work
• Brings individuals and teams up to speed in a discipline rapidly
• Cost effective way of upgrading a staff
• Hands- on exercises provide skill training
• Knowledge transfer from trainers with industry and management experience

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