Business Analytics with AI
Turn raw data into decisions that grow your business — using analytics frameworks, KPI design, AI-powered insights, and data storytelling to become the person who sees what others miss.
What You'll Learn
- Explain how data-driven organizations outperform competitors and identify the specific analytics capabilities that drive 23x customer acquisition and 19x profitability advantages
- Apply the Balanced Scorecard and OKR frameworks to design metric systems that connect daily activities to strategic objectives across financial, customer, process, and learning dimensions
- Design KPI hierarchies that distinguish vanity metrics from actionable metrics, leading indicators from lagging indicators, and correlation from causation
- Use AI tools for natural language data querying, automated anomaly detection, and predictive analysis to surface insights that manual analysis would miss
- Build executive dashboards that follow the What → Why → What to Do narrative structure and guide decisions instead of just displaying numbers
- Analyze business scenarios using cohort analysis, funnel metrics, and comparative benchmarks to diagnose problems and recommend specific, data-backed actions
Course Syllabus
Why Business Analytics?
Here’s a number that should get your attention: data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their competitors. But here’s the catch — 70% of organizations report having too many metrics without clarity on which ones actually matter.
The gap isn’t data. Every business has plenty of data. The gap is analytics thinking — knowing what to measure, how to interpret it, and how to turn numbers into decisions that move the business forward.
This course teaches you to think like a business analyst — someone who sees patterns in data that others miss, asks the questions that surface real insights, and communicates findings in ways that drive action.
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for professionals who make or influence business decisions — whether you’re a manager reviewing team performance, a marketer measuring campaign ROI, a founder tracking growth metrics, or anyone who needs to turn data into strategy.
Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with spreadsheets and business concepts. No coding, statistics, or prior analytics experience needed.
What You’ll Learn
Over 8 lessons, you’ll build a complete business analytics toolkit — from choosing the right frameworks and designing meaningful metrics to building AI-powered dashboards and presenting insights that executives act on.
Related Skills
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to know SQL or Python for this course?
No technical skills required. This course teaches business analytics thinking — frameworks, metrics design, and AI-assisted analysis — that works whether you use spreadsheets, BI tools, or AI chat interfaces. You'll learn to ask the right questions, not write code.
How is this different from the Data Analysis course?
The Data Analysis course teaches you to work with datasets — cleaning, transforming, and analyzing data. This course focuses on business strategy: choosing what to measure, designing KPI systems, building decision-making dashboards, and communicating insights to executives. Think of data analysis as the technical skill and business analytics as the strategic skill.
What AI tools will I use?
You'll learn to use any AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) for analytics tasks — from natural language data queries and anomaly detection to predictive analysis and report generation. The techniques work across all major AI platforms.
Is this relevant for small businesses or just enterprise?
Every lesson applies to businesses of any size. A freelancer tracking client metrics and a Fortune 500 VP reviewing quarterly dashboards both need the same analytical thinking. The frameworks scale — a small business might track 5 KPIs while an enterprise tracks 50, but the design principles are identical.