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An Analytic Mindset – Leveraging Analytics for Business Success

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Duration: 1.0 day
Course fee:
EPTO units: .
CEUs: 0.6

Presented by Emma Warrillow, President of Emma Warrillow and Associates Inc.

This interactive seminar explores effective approaches to conducting, interpreting and presenting analysis – with an emphasis on the marketing context.

Who should attend

Both marketing analysts and their managers will benefit from this non-technical course. It will help them understand the power of analytics and how results can help improve decision-making across the enterprise.

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Course Contents
Thinking like an analyst
Getting the most from your analysts
Approaches to analytics
  • predictive vs. descriptive
  • dissect, hypothesize, experiment
  • corporate/financial vs. customer-level
When to use different types of analysis
  • modeling / segmentation / trend analysis / ad hoc query etc.
Understanding the results
  • results of different types of analysis
  • comparisons and benchmarks
  • sniff tests and reality checks
  • understanding and assessing other influences
  • association and causality
Presenting results
  • understanding the audience
  • communicating and formatting results
  • creating an executive summary
  • creating a scorecard
Best and worst practices
Course Materials
Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.

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