Analytical Skills 
Improve business decisions by learning how to gather, interpret and present data.

Develop specialized skills and strategies to help you assess patterns, identify relevant questions, gain data-driven insights and effectively share analytical information with others.

Topics

Profitability vs. Growth: How to Achieve Both

Bottom-line margin or top-line growth? Ask managers which they want and they will tell you "both." But research into over a thousand companies shows that only 32% are able to achieve both more often than not. With the odds stacked against them, how...

Rahul Gupta on Fiserv's Greatest Leadership Challenges

Learn how one executive grew his company's bottom line.

Resilience: A Lasting Advantage

Business often feels like a contact sport. Your competitors want to rough you up, blitz you with unexpected new products, undercut your prices, gang up on you via alliances or mergers and hammer away at your stock price. The important thing is a...

Resistance to Change: Martyrs, the Oasis, and Copycats

Learn how copycats, martyrs, and the oasis phenomenon interfere with positive change.

Roadmap to a Customer-Centric Strategy

Becoming a truly customer-centric organization is perhaps one of the most difficult transitions an organization can make, fraught with hidden obstacles and unanticipated challenges. Here are three potential roadblocks on the path to a customer-centric...

Scaling Up Excellence

Every organization contains pockets of excellence, if you know where to look. Two Stanford professors wondered: How do you identify those areas of excellence and spread them throughout the organization? Here’s what they found.

Secrets of the Strategy Execution Superstars

Companies that excel at strategy execution, including P&G, Costco, and Google.

Seven Steps to Gaining Strength in a Weakened Economy

Companies are coming out of the recession in a weakened condition. Learn some strategies to rebuild the business.

Six Key Questions in Strategic Planning

Here are six key questions you need to ask as you enter into strategic planning.