AI-Enabled Business Analytics
One-Month Intensive — business thinking first, then data & visualization. No coding required.
Learn Business Analytics from scratch. Master structured problem-solving, stakeholder communication, and use AI to accelerate your analysis.
Duration & Commitment
4 weeks (20 teaching days, 5 days/week).
~3 hours daily (≈1.5 hr concept, ≈1.5 hr applied practice).
Structure
Weeks 1–2: business fundamentals & problem-solving frameworks.
Weeks 3–4: data & visualization.
Level & Audience
Beginner to intermediate; no coding or SQL required.
For aspiring analysts, consultants, product/ops people, managers.
Toolkit
Spreadsheets, AI assistants, no-code BI tool (Power BI or Tableau).
Business Judgment Over Tooling
Your Thinking Partner
- check_circleWeeks 1–2: Practice frameworks at speed, role-play stakeholder interviews with AI, and pressure-test logic.
- check_circleWeeks 3–4: Generate formulas, accelerate cleaning/exploration, build dashboards with BI copilots, and draft insight narratives — always with a human check.
- schoolThe Daily "AI Drill": Use AI to do the task, then verify by hand.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this intensive course, you will be able to:
Understand Value Creation
Explain how a business creates, delivers, and captures value, and read its core metrics.
Structure Problems
Structure a fuzzy problem into clear, testable questions using the right framework.
Manage Stakeholders
Run stakeholder interviews and turn them into requirements and hypotheses.
Analyze Data (No Code)
Clean, explore, and analyze data using spreadsheets and AI — no code.
Build Dashboards
Build clear visualizations and interactive dashboards.
Deliver Recommendations
Deliver an evidence-backed recommendation and communicate it like a consultant.
4-Week Curriculum
A hands-on, framework-first approach.
Business Fundamentals & Structured Problem-Solving (Pt 1)
- todayDay 1: Business Model Canvas; Unit Economics (CAC, LTV, contribution margin, payback); AI drill.
- todayDay 2: Porter's Value Chain; TAM/SAM/SOM; Jobs To Be Done; market-sizing exercise.
- todayDay 3: North Star Metric, KPIs, OKRs; SCQ framing; AI drill.
- todayDay 4: 5 Whys, Fishbone, Issue/Logic Trees, MECE; AI drill.
- todayDay 5: Hypothesis-driven thinking, 80/20 (Pareto), first principles.
Canvas + metrics, SCQ framing, MECE tree, root causes, top 3 hypotheses.
Stakeholders, Requirements & Strategy (Pt 2)
- todayDay 6: Power/Interest Grid; interview techniques; AI role-play interview.
- todayDay 7: Functional vs non-functional requirements; user stories; SIPOC & process mapping.
- todayDay 8: Journey Mapping, AARRR, funnel, cohort, RFM; RICE, MoSCoW, Cost-Benefit.
- todayDay 9: SWOT, PESTLE, Porter's Five Forces, Ansoff, BCG Matrix, McKinsey 7S.
- todayDay 10: Minto Pyramid Principle; Situation→Insight→Recommendation→Action.
Mock interview → requirements + process map → strategy framework → prioritized recommendation via Pyramid Principle.
Data: Prepare, Explore & Analyze (No Code)
- todayDay 11: Data literacy; data quality dimensions; building an analysis-ready table.
- todayDay 12: Spreadsheets as an analytics engine — lookups, pivots, conditional aggregation; verifying AI-generated formulas.
- todayDay 13: Cleaning messy data — missing values, duplicates, outliers, reshaping.
- todayDay 14: Exploratory Data Analysis; correlation vs causation.
- todayDay 15: Diagnostic analytics — segmentation, trend analysis, and root cause verification with data.
End-to-end data cleaning and exploratory analysis to prove or disprove the hypotheses from Week 1.
Dashboards, Storytelling & Capstone
- todayDay 16: Visualization principles; choosing the right chart for the right question.
- todayDay 17: Introduction to BI Tools (Power BI / Tableau); connecting data sources.
- todayDay 18: Building interactive dashboards with BI copilots.
- todayDay 19: Data storytelling; crafting narratives and executive summaries.
- todayDay 20: Final presentations, feedback, and course wrap-up.
Present a comprehensive business strategy backed by a functional dashboard and Minto Pyramid narrative.