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Organizations are constantly evolving to perform better and compete. Currently, many organizations are transforming through digital initiatives, lean thinking, and agile practices.   This creates even greater opportunities for those who can be an integrating influence, making teams work better, and leading collaboration between stakeholders.  This role is tailor-made for someone who understands how and when people can work productively together, and what the individual Business Analyst (BA) can do to bring about these conditions. Much of the influence of a BA comes from their own behaviour, as their leadership is of the facilitative kind, a style of leadership honed throughout this course. Whether working in agile teams, in traditional Waterfall projects or assisting with product development, the leadership skills gained on this course will translate to increased professional value. This course will teach you tools and techniques identified in the BABOK® Guide v3 and PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA®) content, allowing you to deliver more value to your organization.   Develop important leadership and people skills to facilitate project and product success. Facilitate a process that elicits project requirements and influences expectations. Assess your organization’s current business analysis capability. Approach stakeholder conversations from a strategic viewpoint. Develop effective and practical communication plans.

Learn the tools, techniques and skills you need to succeed  in business analysis.  In this course, you'll discover how to define scope, define requirements in user stories, prioritize stakeholder requirements in a backlog and provide the traceability essential to a successful solution delivery. You will learn to play your part in designing solutions using process models and use cases, and specify the applicable data requirements, business rules, and non-functional requirements.  In addition you will deploy the performance demands of the business to your solutions using acceptance and evaluation criteria, and metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs.)  This course will teach you tools and techniques identified in the BABOK® Guide v3 and PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA®) content, allowing you to deliver more value to your organization. Know the practical details involved in using the most important tools and techniques in BABOK® v3 and PMI-PBA content. Share information and expand knowledge through the process of creating diagrams and models collaboratively with other team members and classmates Apply key Business Analysis techniques “from scratch” to  real-life case scenarios to create a business analysis deliverable Showcase your Business Analysis expertise by completing a project that calls for the application of techniques to a real business problem to create a recommendation

This introductory course requires no prior knowledge of Turkish. It will be helpful to travellers, heritage students, lovers of language and business people. Through intensive class participation, you'll learn basic grammar and phonetics. Your instructor will lead role-playing and other exercises to help you learn the basics of conversational Turkish. You'll be able to greet people, request and give information, express simple likes and dislikes and make short statements. You'll also learn about Türkiye's unique culture. Begin to use the correct grammar, syntax and vocabulary in simple everyday situations. Begin to pronounce Turkish clearly and to imitate its harmonious vowel patterns.

This self-study course is for intermediate students who already possess basic skills in Japanese, including solid grammar and the ability to read and write approximately 120 to 150 kanji.  Through a variety of reading and writing activities, you'll learn to read simple Japanese texts, such as Internet or magazine articles, and write your own stories and interpretations. You'll get insight into subjects of particular difficulty for non-native speakers. All course materials are in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email. Improve your ability to read Japanese texts. Augment your writing skills. Gain a better understanding of the unique linguistic structures of Japanese.

Pronunciation is the key to successful communication in French. Improve your speech, comprehension and pronunciation in this course, which is conducted entirely in French. You'll get personalized exercises that address intonation, rhythm, vowels, consonants, the liaison, the unstable "e" and many other specialized sounds. We'll also identify the differences in sound and rhythm between standard international and standard Québécois French. Improve your command of the complex sounds used in French. Develop a more authentic cadence. Improve the rhythm of your speech. Deepen your comprehension. Be better understood.

Gain a university level understanding of cellular biochemical concepts. You'll learn how proteins are the action molecules of the body, how fat burns in metabolic pathways when you exercise, and how the genetic information stored in your DNA makes you unique.  Proteins and Enzymes: nature of bonds in molecules characteristics of water, the universal solvent, and pH structures and nature of amino acids, building blocks of proteins levels of protein structure and protein 3-dimensional shape nature of enzyme catalyzed reactions, their regulation, inhibition and mechanisms hemoglobin, the oxygen transport protein characteristics of carbohydrates found in nature structures and nature of fatty acids and lipids found in biological membranes structure and functions of membrane proteins: receptors, channels and pumps Metabolism: basic concepts of metabolism and bioenergetics how glucose fuels running via the glycolysis pathway and mitochondrial oxidation building glycogen (polyglucose) reserves following meals how glucose is made during prolonged exercise -how fatty acids serve as fuels in distance running fat catabolism gone awry: diabetes and ketone bodies eicosanoids and the biochemistry of inflammation how fatty acids, phospholipids and cholesterol are made amino acid and nucleotide metabolism Nucleic Acids and Biological Information Flow: structures of the information molecules DNA and RNA DNA replication in cell division DNA Repair and Recombination -RNA synthesis tRNA and mRNA processing genetic code and protein synthesis recombinant DNA technology

If you want to create comics or graphic novels, bring your passion to this practical workshop. Graphic novelist experts will teach you the ropes, introduce you to the marketplace and provide a supportive space in which to develop your ideas. You'll discover a diverse new world of sequential storytelling and a community of like-minded writers. The course supports all genres, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Prominent industry guests will give their perspectives and take your questions. Understand the theoretical and practical structure of comics and graphic novels. Use new techniques and skills to turn your ideas into graphic works. Benefit from the advice of professional artists, editors, designers and other industry guests.

How do you prepare an organization to keep delivering value to customers in increasingly turbulent times? This course digs deeper into topics introduced in 2523 Win with Strategy and provides a fresh perspective and tools to help you turn economic challenges into success. Learn more about the elements that influence strategy, including customer expectations, market opportunity and market forces and how to analyze them using different models.  Identify the way in which an organization's strategy is evolving and what is driving that evolution. Understand the impact of current industry forces on profitability changes. Establish the value of current products and services in the eyes of customers and clients. Avoid wasting needed resources on activities with low strategic potential. Manage change within the context of strategic initiatives.

Lean Six Sigma is a problem solving methodology that businesses use to deliver value for customers, generate higher returns for shareholders and create an engaged workplace for employees. This hands-on course covers the more advanced tools of Lean Six Sigma.  It describes the use of statistical techniques to identify projects more effectively, conduct baseline analysis and managing process improvement and process control. The course also covers techniques  for data collection, and quantifying data measurement system errors, analyzing process variation, statistical hypothesis testing and designing experiments to improve processes. How to collect good quality data Analyse baseline processes and calculate process capability Create and apply statistical hypothesis tests to identify cause and effect Create and apply control charts to monitor and manage processes.

The course teaches you why business process management (BPM) is so important to organizations and how to use it to understand the strengths and weaknesses of existing business strategies and processes and the links between them. You'll use mapping, basic measurements and critical-thinking approaches and learn other ways to analyze, redesign, improve and document business processes. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of existing business strategies and processes and the links between them. Know why business process management (BPM) is so important to organizations. Use BPM to analyze, redesign, improve and document business processes. Use the Association of Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP) Common Body of Knowledge v4.0 as a reference for BPM activities.