Advanced Business Analytics creates sophisticated analytical models that harness data to improve business-decisions making subject to given business restrictions. The potential areas of applications are thereby manifold. The applied methods and technologies employed utilize data to, for instance, identify data patterns to predict customer needs, to provide accurate sales forecasts or to enhance decisions-making for production capacity planning within a supply chain. Advanced Business Analytics is therefore a significant value contribution to individuals, to companies and institutions that enhances productivity, foster transparency, strengthen resilience and boost efficiency. All those benefits translate into competitive advantages such as lower costs and improved service quality for customers.
In our seminar Applied Advanced Business Analytics you will learn the basic methods applied in the stages of Advanced Business Analytics going from descriptive analytics to diagnostic analytics, to predictive analytics and to prescriptive analytics. You will learn the structured handling of data and the application of selected analytical methods applied to concrete practical examples. We are going to discuss useful statistical analysis methods, selected machine learning algorithms, methods for time series analysis and forecasting as well as mathematical optimization methods. Upon completion of Applied Advanced Analytics, you will be able to identify appropriate analytical approaches for your business questions, and to combine your business, data and analytical models to come up with an appropriate data driven answer. In addition to enhancing your analytical skills, the seminar will also build up on your personal confidence to use data for an improved business outcome.