Harmony Joi Jones Mastery Timeline Course Goals for Business Intelligence FSU

1. Harmony Joi Jones
Mastery Journey
Timeline
Course
Goals

2. Mastery: Personal Development & Leadership
To acquire the
necessary tools to
embark on the
journey towards
mastery both
professionally
and personally
while
rediscovering
myself.
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!
Managing Your
Time with Todd
Dewett
Ebscohost
!
Read: Steps to
Greatness
February 3, 2014
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Discovering Your
Strengths with
Dave Crenshaw

3. Foundations of Business Intelligence
To learn the basic
concepts of business
intelligence and the
creation of various
Visio diagrams.
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Complete Visio
2010 Essential
Training with Dave
Edson
Ebscohost
!
Read: Trends
in ERP
Software
February 3, 2014
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Building Your
Professional
Network with
Dave Crenshaw

4. Enterprise Data Management
To understand the
big picture of how
data is interpreted
across an
organization and
gain an
understanding of
various business
processes.
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Managing Project
Schedules with
Bonnie Biafore
Ebscohost
!
Read: Five Steps to
Complete Enterpise
Data Management
Strategy
March 3, 2014
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!
Excel 2010
Essential
Training with
Bob Flisser

5. Business Intelligence Technologies
To understand how
business intelligence
software is used to
solve problems and
make companies more
successful.
March 31, 2014
Ebscohost
!
Read:
Collaborative
BI: Theory
Becomes
Reality
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Building
Confidence
with Todd
Dewett
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!
Time
Management
Fundamentals
with Dave
Crenshaw

6. Business Intelligence Analytics
To understand
statistical and
analytical
techniques and
how they are
used in
forecasting and
predictive
analysis.
Ebscohost
!
Read:
Maximizing
Insight from
Unstructured
Data
May 5, 2014
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!
Wayne Winston
on Analytics with
Wayne Winston
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!
Project
Management
Fundamentals
with Bonnie
Biafore

7. Data Mining
To understand
how data mining
tools, techniques,
and intelligent
processes are used
to identify
patterns in data
that yield
information,
insight, and
enterprise
intelligence.
Ebscohost
!
Read: Explaining
Data Driven
Document
Classifications
June 2, 2014
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!
Rescuing
Troubled Projects
with Bob
McGannon
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!
Project 2010
Essential
Training with
Bonnie
Biafore

8. Patterns and Recognition
To examine
advanced datamining concepts and
techniques used to
identify meaningful
statistical patterns
and relationships in
data.
July 7, 2014
Ebscohost
!
Read:
Biometric
Solutions
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!
Financial Literacy:
Reading Financial
Reports with
Rudolph
Rosenberg
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!
Enhancing
Your
Productivity
with Dave
Crenshaw

9. Process Modeling and Analysis
To understand
how business
intelligence
systems are used
to support the
analysis and
improvement of
business
processes.
Ebscohost
!
Read: Modeling
Processes
Depends on
Your
Application
August 4, 2014
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Leading Change
with Britt
Andreatta
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!
Personal
Branding Basics
with Lorrie
Thomas Ross

10. Data Visualization and Creative Reporting
To learn the use
of dashboards,
web-based and
desktop widgets
and stand-alone
software
applications.
Ebscohost
!
Read: Data
Visualization
Throughout the
Ages
September 1, 2014
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!
Content
Marketing
Fundamentals
with C.C.
Chapman
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!
Powerpoint
2010 Essential
Training with
David Diskin

11. Business Intelligence Leadership
& Communication Skills
To refine
overall
leadership
abilities and
communication
with others
verbally and
visually.
Ebscohost
!
Read: Manage
Your Work,
Manage Your
Life
September 29, 2014
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!
Communication
Fundamentals
with John
Ullmen
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Thinking Like
a Leader with
Dave
Crenshaw

12. Business Intelligence Case Studies
To use creative
problem solving and
critical thinking to
support a range of BI
decision-making
processes by using
real world scenarios
to solve problems.
Ebscohost
!
Read: The
Overall Effect of
the Business
Cycle on Crime
October 27, 2014
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!
Data Driven
Presentations with
Excel and
Powerpoint with
Gini Courter
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!
Insights from a
Project Manager
with Bob
McGannon

13. Business Intelligence Capstone
To demonstrate
everything I have
learned over the course
of this degree program.
I will deliver a
presentation that
summarizes my
project, results, and
recommendations
through effective use of
appropriate data
visualization and
infographics.
Ebscohost
!
Read: Strike
With Good
Pitches
November 24, 2014
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!
Building
Business
Relationships
with Simon
Bailey
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!
Connecting with
Executives with
John Ullmen